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| Environmental law |
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Environmental law is a complex and interlocking body of treaties, conventions, statutes, regulations, and common law that operates to regulate the interaction of humanity and the natural environment, toward the purpose of reducing the impacts of...
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| Environmental skepticism |
Environmental skepticism is an umbrella term that describes those that argue that particular claims put forward by environmentalists and environmental scientists who support the first are false or exaggerated, along with those who are critical of...
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| Environmental movement |
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The environmental movement, a term that includes the conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.
Environmentalists advocate the sustainable management of resources and...
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| Environmental economics |
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Environmental economics is a subfield of economics concerned with environmental issues. Quoting from the National Bureau of Economic Research Environmental Economics program:
Environmental economics is distinguished from Ecological economics that...
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| Environmental finance |
Environmental Finance is the use of various financial instruments (most notably land trusts and [Emissions trading]) to protect the environment. The field is part of both environmental economics and the conservation movement.
Dr. Gretchen Daily, of...
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| Environmental engineering |
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Environmental engineering is the application of science and engineering principles to improve the natural environment (air, water, and/or land resources), to provide healthy water, air, and land for human habitation (house or home) and for other...
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| Environmental science |
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Environmental Sciences | Field Of Study |
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, (including but not limited to Ecology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Soil Science, Geology, Atmospheric Science and Geography) to the study...
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| Environmental determinism |
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Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism, is the view that the physical environment sets limits on human environment.
The fundamental argument of the environmental determinists was that aspects of...
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| Environmental geology | Field Of Study |
Environmental geology, like hydrogeology, is an applied science concerned with the practical application of the principles of geology in the solving of environmental problems. It is a multidisciplinary field that is closely related to engineering...
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| Environmentally Sensitive Area |
An Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) is a type of designation for an agricultural area which needs special protection because of its landscape, wildlife or historical value. The scheme was introduced in 1987. Originally it was administered by...
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| Environment Wales | Organization |
Environment Wales is a partnership of voluntary organisations in Wales, whose aim it is to contribute to sustainable development, mainly by awarding grants for projects which contribute to this aim.
The organisations are:
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| Environment and Heritage Service | Natural or Cultural Preservation Agency |
The Northern Ireland Environment Agency is a Northern Ireland Executive conservation agency within the Department of the Environment. Unlike the equivalent bodies in England, Scotland and Wales, it aims to promote and conserve both the natural...
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| Environmental ethics | Field Of Study |
Environmental ethics is the part of environmental philosophy which considers extending the traditional boundaries of ethics from solely including humans to including the non-human world. It exerts influence on a large range of disciplines including...
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| Environmental scanning |
Environmental scanning is one component of the global environmental analysis. Environmental monitoring, environmental forecasting and environmental assessment complete the global environmental analysis. Environmental scanning refers to the macro...
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| Environment Canada | Environnement Canada | Government Agency |
Environment Canada (EC) (French: Environnement Canada), legally incorporated as the Department of the Environment under the Department of the Environment Act ( R.S., 1985, c. E-10 ), is the department of the Government of Canada with responsibility...
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| Environmental health |
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Environmental health is the branch of public health that is concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment that may affect human health. Other phrases that concern or refer to the discipline of environmental health include...
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| Environment 2004 |
Environment 2004 is a group organized by Frank Loy, a former Clinton administration State Department official to "harness outrage about George W. Bush's stances on issues like logging, global warming and drilling in Alaska and the Rocky Mountains"...
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| Environment variable |
Environment variables are a set of dynamic named values that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer.
They can be said in some sense to create the operating environment in which a process runs. For example, an environment...
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| Environmental effects on physiology |
The environment can have major influences on human physiology. Environmental effects on physiology are numerous; one of the most carefully studied effects is the alterations in thermoregulation in the body due to outside stresses. This is necessary...
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| Environmentalist Agrarian Party | Political party |
The Environmentalist Agrarian Party (Albanian: Partia Agrare Ambientaliste) is an Albanian political party, founded in 1991. The party is led by Lufter Xhuveli. Initially the party was known as the Agrarian Party of Albania (Partia Agrare e...
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| Environmental remediation | Remediation |
Environmental remediation deals with the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water for the general protection of human health and the environment or from a brownfield site...
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| Environmental vandalism |
Environmental vandalism is a term used by some environmentalists to describe what they consider as the egregious or blatant destruction of delicate ecosystems, especially in violation of environmental protection laws. Illegal logging in designated...
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| Environmental sociology |
Environmental sociology is typically defined as the sociological study of societal-environmental interactions, although this definition immediately presents the perhaps insolvable problem of separating human cultures from the rest of the environment...
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| Environment Agency |
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The Environment Agency (Welsh: Asiantaeth yr Amgylchedd) is a British non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Assembly Government Sponsored Body of the Welsh Government that serves England and...
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| Environmental disaster |
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An environmental disaster is a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity, which distinguishes it from the concept of a natural disaster.
In this case, the impact of humans' alteration of the ecosystem has led to widespread and/or...
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| Environmental Assessment Institute | Organization |
Environmental Assessment Institute (EAI) (Danish: Institut for Miljøvurdering) is an independent body under the Danish Ministry of the Environment. It was established in February 2002 by the Liberal/Conservative Danish Government with the task of...
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| Environmental Audio Extensions | Environmental audio extensions |
The environmental audio extensions (or EAX) are a number of digital signal processing presets for audio, present in Creative Technology's later Sound Blaster sound cards and the Creative NOMAD/Creative ZEN product lines. EAX displaced the...
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| Environmental design |
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Environmental design is the process of addressing surrounding environmental parameters when devising plans, programs, policies, buildings, or products. Classical prudent design may have always considered environmental factors; however, the...
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| Environmental impact statement |
An environmental impact statement (EIS), under United States environmental law, is a document required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for certain actions "significantly affecting the quality of the human environment". An EIS is a...
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| Environmental impact of electricity generation |
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Environmental concerns with electricity generation |
The environmental impact of electricity generation is significant because modern society uses large amounts of electrical power. This power is normally generated at power plants that convert some other kind of energy into electrical power. Each...
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| Environmental gradient |
An environmental gradient is a gradual change in abiotic factors through space (or time). Environmental gradients can be related to factors such as altitude, temperature, depth, ocean proximity and soil humidity.
Species abundances usually change...
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| Environmental chemistry |
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Environmental chemistry is the scientific study of the chemical and biochemical phenomena that occur in natural places. It should not be confused with green chemistry, which seeks to reduce potential pollution at its source. It can be defined as the...
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| Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand | Organization member |
The Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand (ECO) was formed in 1971 under the name of CoEnCo and changed its name to ECO in 1976.
It is a non-profit umbrella group and network of 70 organisations and publish ecolink (ISSN...
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| Environmental degradation |
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Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil; the destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of wildlife. It is defined as any change or disturbance to the environment...
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| Environmental Green Political Assembly | Political party |
The Environmental Green Political Assembly (みどりの会議, Midori no Kaigi) was a right-wing political party in Japan which had a mix of platforms. It advocated Green conservatism but was also reformist. On June 22, 2004, because of the poor performance...
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| Environmental Transport Association | Organization |
The Environmental Transport Association is a British breakdown and road rescue company, but unlike the AA or the RAC which are perceived as pro-car, the ETA aims to raise awareness of the impact that transport has on the environment and help...
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| Environmental portrait |
An environmental portrait is a portrait executed in the subject's usual environment, such as in their home or workplace, and typically illuminates the subject's life and surroundings. The term is most frequently used of a genre of photography.
By...
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| Environmental archaeology |
Environmental archaeology is the study of the long-term relationship between humans and their environments. This field aims to understand whether the environment of ancient peoples was a driving force in cultural change or merely a factor in its...
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| Environmental racism |
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The definition of environmental racism is inequality — in the form of racism linked with environmental factors and practices — that causes disproportionate distress on minority communities. It is a heavily debated phenomenon incorporating a hybrid...
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| Environmentally friendly |
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Environmentally friendly (also eco-friendly, nature friendly, and green) are terms used to refer to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies claimed to inflict minimal or no harm on the environment. Companies sometimes use these terms to...
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| Environmental Stewardship |
Environmental Stewardship is an agri-environment scheme run by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in England. It was formally launched on 18 March 2005, although the first agreements did not start until 1 August 2005.
The scheme,...
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| Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme |
The Environmentally Sensitive Areas Scheme was an agri-environment scheme run by the UK Government within the 22 designated Environmentally Sensitive Areas.
The scheme was superseded in 2005 by the Environmental Stewardship schemes.
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| Environment Act 1995 | Legislation |
The Environment Act 1995 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which created a number of new agencies and set new standards for environmental management.
It set up:
It also:
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| Environmental studies |
Environmental studies is the interdisciplinary academic field which systematically studies human interaction with the environment. It is a broad field of study that includes also the natural environment, built environment, and the sets of...
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| Environmental Quality Improvement Act | Legislation |
The Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 is a United States environmental law which was passed to work in conjunction with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). One of the two major purposes of the Act was to authorize the...
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| Environmental factor | Disease cause |
Environmental factor or ecological factor or ecofactor is any factor, abiotic or biotic, that influences living organisms.
Apart from the true monogenic genetic disorders, environmental factors may determine the development of disease in those...
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| Environmental control system |
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Environmental Control System |
The environmental control system (ECS) of an aircraft provides air supply, thermal control and cabin pressurization for the crew and passengers. Avionics cooling, smoke detection, and fire suppression are also commonly considered part of an aircraft...
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| Environmental management | Industry |
Environmental resource management is “a purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities” . It is not, as the phrase suggests, the management of the environment as such,...
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| Environmental restoration |
Environmental restoration is a term common in the citizens’ environmental movement. Environmental restoration is closely allied with (or perhaps sometimes used interchangeably with) ecological restoration or environmental remediation. In the U.S.,...
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| Environmental Information Regulations 2004 |
The Environmental Information Regulations 2004 are a Statutory Instrument (SI) that regulates access to British Government and other public sector information on the environment. Like the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) the Regulations...
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| Environmental technology |
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Environmental technology (abbreviated as envirotech) or green technology (abbreviated as greentech) or clean technology (abbreviated as cleantech) is the application of one or more of environmental science, green chemistry, environmental monitoring...
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| Environmental Defense | Organization |
Environmental Defense Fund or EDF (formerly known as Environmental Defense) is a United States–based nonprofit environmental advocacy group. The group is known for its work on issues including global warming, ecosystem restoration, oceans, and human...
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| Environmental Robots Inc. | Environmental Robots | Employer |
Environmental Robots Inc., also known by its acronym ERI, is an Albuquerque, New Mexico based robotics company which specializes in artificial muscle technology (electroactive polymer, EAP) and its applications.
ERI entered its EWA-2 robotic arm in...
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| Environmental Working Group | Employer |
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is an American environmental organization that specializes in research and advocacy in the areas of toxic chemicals, agricultural subsidies, public lands, and corporate accountability. EWG is a non-profit...
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| Environmental Modeling Center |
The Environmental Modeling Center (EMC), improves numerical weather, marine and climate predictions at the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP), through a broad program of research in data assimilation and modeling. In support of the...
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| Environmental psychology |
Environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary field focused on the interplay between humans and their surroundings. The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning...
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| Environmental resistance |
Environmental resistance is the limiting influences of environmental factors upon the increase in numbers of individual in a community.When paired with biotic potential, a population will reach carrying capacity.
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| Environmental Measurements Laboratory |
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The Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML) is the former name of the current National Urban Security Technology Laboratory (NUSTL), a United States government-owned, government-operated laboratory. NUSTL is part of the Science and Technology (S...
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| Environmental Law Service |
Environmental Law Service (ELS) is a Czech non-governmental organization of lawyers who use law to further the public interest. Based in Tábor, its Czech name is Ekologický právní servis (EPS). It has a second office at Brno.
It was established in...
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| Environmental history |
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Environmental history is the study of human interaction with the natural world over time. In contrast to other historical disciplines, it emphasizes the active role nature plays in influencing human affairs. Environmental historians study how humans...
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