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The United Nations Organization (UNO), or simply United Nations (UN), is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
Is measured by the total value of the gross fixed capital formation, changes in inventories and acquisition less disposal of valuables for a unit or sector. It is inclusive of the value of capital consumption.
Industry:Environment
Wood in the rough, that is, wood in its natural state as felled or otherwise harvested, with or without bark, round, split roughly squared or in some other form (for example, roots, stumps, burls and so forth).
Industry:Environment
Air pollutants that may reasonably be expected to cause or contribute to irreversible illness or death. They include asbestos, beryllium, mercury, benzene, coke oven emissions, radionuclides and vinyl chloride.
Industry:Environment
Extraction of groundwater in excess of supply to a basin or aquifer, resulting in depletion of water resources. Overpumping of a well can lead to the intrusion of saline water if the well is near the sea coast.
Industry:Environment
Species taken in a fishery targeting other species or different size range of the same species. The part of the bycatch which has no commercial value is discarded and returned to the sea, usually dead or dying.
Industry:Environment
Artificial application of water to land to assist in the growing of crops and pastures. It is carried out by spraying water under pressure (spray irrigation) or by pumping water onto the land (flood irrigation).
Industry:Environment
Waste minerals in an ore. Essentially, it is an economic term, as materials that constitute gangue in one mine may, in higher concentration or under different economic conditions, represent a valuable component.
Industry:Environment
Actual or imputed costs for preventing environmental deterioration by alternative production and consumption processes, or by the reduction of or abstention from economic activities. See also maintenance costing.
Industry:Environment
By-product of metallurgic and combustion processes consisting mainly of mixed oxides of silicon, sulfur, phosphorus and aluminium. It is used as road material, as ballast and as a source of phosphate fertilizers.
Industry:Environment
Removal of excess water from fields through the construction of channels or conduits. It improves crop growth through aeration and root development, checks weed growth and reduces the incidence of plant diseases.
Industry:Environment
