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GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
The final placement of waste in or on the land in a controlled or uncontrolled way according to different sanitary, environmental protection and other safety requirements. OECD, Glossary of Statistical Terms, accessed...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
Consecutive and interlinked stages of a product system, from raw material acquisition or generation from natural resources to final disposal. EC, 2013, Commission Recommendation of 9 April 2013...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) is an internationally standardised methodology. (ISO 14040:2006) LCA helps to quantify the environmental pressures related to goods and services (products), the environmental benefits, the trade-offs...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
Class of complex organic polymers supporting tissues of vascular plants. Such complex aromatic heteropolymers, stiffen and fortify secondary cell walls within xylem tissues...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
Live weight of fishery products is derived from the landed or product weight by the application of certain factors and is designed to represent the actual weight of the fishery product as it was taken...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
Animals such as cattle and sheep which are kept on the holding or otherwise for agricultural production. FAO, 1996, 'Conducting agricultural censuses and surveys', FAO Statistical Development...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
The wood left in the forest after forestry logging operations. These residues generally include woody debris from final felling (e.g. branches, leaves, stumps, roots...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
All the means and methods for low-carbon or carbon-free. It suits the need of adapting to a low-carbon economy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions and preventing global warming. Low-carbon technology...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
Macroalgae are macroscopic eukaryotic pluricellular organisms composed of single differentiated cells able to obtain energy using chromophores. Algae and algae products - Terms...
GLOSSARY ITEM | 10 Apr 2024
[Where during one harvest year several crops are grown in succession on an area] the main crop is the one with the highest economic value. When it is not...