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environmental impact statement
environmental impact statement analysis of the impact that a proposed development, usually industrial, will have on the natural and social environment. It includes assessment of long- and short-term effects on the physical environment, such as air, water, and noise pollution, as well as effects on... Read more |
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environment variable
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Human ecology
Human Ecology Theory Theories of human interaction should provide a way of making sense of events that have happened in the past, and then allow us to make predictions about what may happen in the future. Human ecology theory is a way of looking at the interactions of humans with their... Read more |
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Coase theorem
Coase theorem An economic theorem that is sometimes used in discussions of external costs in environment-related situations. The standard welfare economic view states that in order to make the market efficient, external costs—such as pollution produced by a company in making a product |
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Canada. Environment Canada
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Distributed Computing Environment
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Paleoecology
palaeoecology Palaeoecology is the study of the interactions of organisms with each other and with their environment in the geological past. It thus borrows heavily from the modern discipline of ecology although its emphases are different. Modern biologists can sample populations on scales of years... Read more |
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pollution
pollution contamination of the environment as a result of human activities. The term pollution refers primarily to the fouling of air, water, and land by wastes (see air pollution ; water pollution ; solid waste ). In recent years it has come to signify a wider range of disruptions to... Read more |
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Transport
Transport Transport is the controlled movement of substances from one part of a cell to another, or from one side of a cell membrane to the other. Because each cell must maintain an internal environment different from the external environment, it must regulate the movement of... Read more |
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industrial melanism
industrial melanism The development of melanic forms of organisms in response to soot and sulphur dioxide pollution. Industrial melanism is especially associated with various moth species and was first noted early in the 19th century. In the 1950s, studies by H. B. D. Kettlewell on the moth... Read more |
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