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  • Thumbnail for Pollutant
    A pollutant or novel entity is a substance or energy introduced into the environment that has undesired effects, or adversely affects the usefulness of...
    11 KB (1,203 words) - 07:40, 7 July 2024
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    Air pollution (redirect from Air pollutant)
    is the contamination of air due to the presence of substances called pollutants in the atmosphere that are harmful to the health of humans and other living...
    233 KB (23,467 words) - 08:39, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Persistent organic pollutant
    Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are organic compounds that are resistant to degradation through chemical, biological, and photolytic processes. They...
    39 KB (5,194 words) - 21:39, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Water pollution
    substances such as oil, metals, plastics, pesticides, persistent organic pollutants, and industrial waste products. Another is stressful conditions such as...
    61 KB (8,724 words) - 20:51, 2 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Air quality index
    Air Pollution Index, and Singapore's Pollutant Standards Index. Computation of the AQI requires an air pollutant concentration over a specified averaging...
    66 KB (5,067 words) - 14:25, 8 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Life-cycle assessment
    Life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of...
    111 KB (13,161 words) - 05:26, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Environmental impact assessment
    Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is the assessment of the environmental consequences of a plan, policy, program, or actual projects prior to the decision...
    86 KB (10,427 words) - 13:32, 17 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
    The Climate and Clean Air Coalition to Reduce Short-Lived Climate Pollutants (CCAC) was launched by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and...
    21 KB (2,324 words) - 02:04, 7 October 2024
  • Policy impact assessments, or simply impact assessments (IAs), are formal, evidence-based procedures that assess prospective economic, social, and environmental...
    6 KB (716 words) - 14:15, 4 April 2024
  • approach measures the exposures to pollutants by monitoring the pollutant concentrations reaching the respondents. The pollutant concentrations are directly...
    23 KB (2,873 words) - 20:59, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Risk assessment
    ISBN 978-1-84973-091-4. Committee on Risk Assessment of Hazardous Air Pollutants (1994), Science and judgment in risk assessment, Washington, D.C.: National Academy...
    71 KB (8,840 words) - 16:34, 18 October 2024
  • The National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) are air pollution standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection...
    15 KB (767 words) - 16:43, 4 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Social impact assessment
    Social impact assessment (SIA) is a methodology to review the social effects of infrastructure projects and other development interventions. Although SIA...
    15 KB (1,729 words) - 12:10, 9 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976
    safety assessment, a physiochemical hazard, an environmental hazard, and chemical's persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic pollutant assessment information...
    100 KB (11,639 words) - 15:00, 28 September 2024
  • lodged with the convention's Compliance Committee. The Kyiv Protocol on Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers to the Aarhus Convention was adopted at...
    20 KB (2,204 words) - 09:55, 20 October 2024
  • A pollutant release and transfer register (PRTR) is a system for collecting and disseminating information about environmental releases and transfers of...
    6 KB (606 words) - 17:49, 25 September 2024
  • Measures of pollutant concentration are used to determine risk assessment in public health. Industry is continually synthesizing new chemicals, the regulation...
    8 KB (1,191 words) - 01:57, 2 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Indoor air quality
    lighting. Since indoor air pollutants can adversely affect human health, it is important to have real-time indoor air quality assessment/monitoring system that...
    101 KB (10,730 words) - 11:15, 5 November 2024
  • Ecological assessment (EA) implies the monitoring of ecological resources, to discover the current and changing conditions. EAs are required components...
    10 KB (1,096 words) - 09:43, 17 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Environmental persistent pharmaceutical pollutant
    The term environmental persistent pharmaceutical pollutants (EPPP) was first suggested in the nomination in 2010 of pharmaceuticals and environment as...
    37 KB (4,191 words) - 16:11, 11 May 2024
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