Arquivos: Glossário

Payment for the use of assets, both intangible, such as patents, and tangible, notably subsoil assets. Royalties paid for the use of subsoil assets are also called rents even though they are not rents by the definition given above.

A stream segment where there is moderate water velocity that does not break the surface tension of the water and does not produce breaking wavelets that turn the surface water into white water.

Precipitation, snow melt or irrigation water that appears in surface streams or rivers.

Water used in suburban or farm areas for domestic and livestock needs. The water generally is self-supplied and includes domestic use, drinking water for livestock, and other uses such as dairy sanitation, evaporation from stock-watering ponds, and cleaning and waste disposal.

Main federal law that ensures the quality of the country’s drinking water. Under SDWA, the EPA sets standards for drinking water quality and oversees the states, localities, and water suppliers who implement those standards.

The amount of groundwater that can be withdrawn from a groundwater basin over a period of time without exceeding the long term recharge of the basin or unreasonably affecting the basin’s physical and chemical integrity.

“Safeguarding Cancun” refers to the Cancún Safeguards, a framework adopted at the 2010 UNFCCC COP16 in Cancún, Mexico, to guide REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) initiatives. These safeguards are a set of principles designed to ensure that forest carbon programs respect the environment and human rights. They aim to prevent social and […]

A timber sales arrangement in which the buyer pays for forest products removed in units (measured in cords, MBF, or units of weight). Determination of units removed from the area is verified by mill tally, scale tickets, and buyer’s or seller’s tally.

The sale of specified timber on a specified area. The volume may or may not be estimated and published. The buyer is responsible for determining correct volume. The seller guarantees ownership and boundaries.

An area where deposits of crystalline salt are formed, such as a salt flat; a body of saline water, such as a saline playa or salt marsh.