GLOSSARY TERMS OF

ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

JEIMMY BARRERA ALBARRACIN

  
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1. ABIOTIC: A physical or chemical event, part of an ecosystem or the

environment that does not occurinside a living organism.

2. WASTEWATER ACIDITY: Is due to the presence of certain mineral

acids and/or or to the hydrolysis suffered by the existence of salts of
strong acids and weak bases. It can cause corrosive action in the
installations, due to the action of the hydrogen catión .

3. ENVIRONMENT: The environment, including water, air and soil, and

their interrelationship, as well as the relationships between these
elements and any living organisms.
4. THREAT: Latent danger associated with a physical phenomenon of
natural, technological or man-made origin, which may manifest itself in a
specific place and at a specific time, producing adverse effects on
people, goods, services and the environment.

5. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY: The relative ability of an environment to

meet the needs or desires of an individual or society.

6. FLOW: Volume of water passing through a given section.

7. CONSERVATION: The action and effect of maintaining an ecosystem in
a good state and managing the use of the biosphere by humans in such
a way that it produces the greatest and most sustained benefit for
present generations, but maintains its potential to meet the needs of
future generations.

8. POLLUTANT: Materials, substances or energy that when incorporated

and/or acting on the environment degrade their original quality to levels
not suitable for human health and well-being, endangering natural
ecosystems.

9. ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION: Processes induced by human

actions and activities that damage the natural resource base or adversely
affect natural processes and ecosystems, reducing their quality and
productivity. The potential effects are varied and include the
transformation of resources into socio-natural hazards.
10. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Process of natural, economic-social,
cultural and institutional transformations, which aim to ensure the
improvement of human living conditions, the production of goods and the
provision of services, without deteriorating the natural environment or
compromising the foundations of similar development for future
generations.

11. ECOSYSTEM: Natural system resulting from the gathering of elements

of mutual interaction, composed of living organisms and the physical
environment in which they develop.

12. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: The result of measuring

and weighing the effects of human development activities or the lack of
actions on different components of the environment during a planning
stage.
13. Fauna: A group of animal species that inhabit a geographical region, that
are characteristic of a geological period or that can be found in a given
system.

14. Forest reserves: Areas of public or private property that are intended
for the maintenance or recovery of native protective vegetation-

15. SYSTEM: Set of elements grouped with a certain criterion, the relations
between the elements of the set and the relations of the set with its
environment.
16. DUMPING: Deliberate release of waste or other substances into the
environment

17. HARMFUL AGENTS: Substances released into the environment in

inappropriate concentrations pose a danger to biocenosis and biotope

18. AIR: Air is the name given to the mixture of gases that make up the
Earth's atmosphere, which remain around the planet Earth by the action
of gravity. Air is essential for life on the planet. It is particularly delicate,
fine, ethereal and if clean transparent at short and medium distances
19. ANAEROBIC: Anaerobic or anaerobic organisms are those that do not
use oxygen (O2) in their metabolism, more precisely that the ultimate
electron acceptor is another substance different from oxygen. If the
electron acceptor is an organic molecule (pyruvate, acetaldehyde, etc.)

20. ANTHROPIC: Of human origin, humanized, as opposed to natural. The

relative (for being associated, influenced, belonging or even
contemporary) to man understood as human species or human being
(etymologically it comes from the Greek άνθρωπος -anthropos-).

21. ATMOSPHERE: The atmosphere is the layer of gas that surrounds a

celestial body. Gases are attracted by the body's gravity, and remain
there if gravity is sufficient and the temperature of the atmosphere is low.
Some planets are formed mainly by gases, so they have very deep
atmospheres.
22. ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT: Documented and objective procedure for an
environmental assessment of an organization, operation or equipment, in
order to help safeguard the environment

23. WATER: Odorless, colorless, tasteless liquid, widely distributed in the

nature. It represents about 70% of the Earth's surface. Essential
component of living beings. It is present on the planet in every being
human, in the form of a multitude of microscopic flows.
24. GARBAGE: Waste, generally of urban origin and solid type. There is
garbage that can be reused or recycled. In nature, garbage not only
avoids landscape, but also damages it; for example, it can pollute the
wáter underground, the seas, the rivers etc

25. BIODEGRADABLE: A substance that can be broken down through

processes biological processes carried out by the action of digestion by
micro-organisms aerobic and anaerobic. The biodegradability of
materials depends on their physical and chemical structure. Thus plastic
is less biodegradable than paper an this in turn less than the debris

26. CLIMATE CHANGE: Alterations in the planet's natural climate cycles

due to effect of human activity, especially the massive emissions of CO2
at atmosphere caused by intensive industrial activities and the burning
massive fossil-fuel production.
27. ENVIRONMENTAL CRIME: It is the conduct described in a criminal law
whose The consequence is the degradation of the population's health,
quality of life of the same or of the environment, and which is sanctioned
with a penalti determined.

28. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: Action and effect of training and

informing communities on all matters relating to the definition,
conservation and restoration of different elements that make up the
environment.
29. ALTERNATIVE ENERGY: Also called renewable energy. Renewable
energy always, such as solar energy, wind energy, water power, the
biomass, or geothermal (heat from the depths).

30. ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT: It is the set of human activities that

have for object the management of the environment and its main
components, such as: the environmental policy, law and administration.