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Water resources (2 definitions)

Economic territory (of a country)

Full-time equivalent employment

Market price equivalents

Defined benefit pension plans

Defined contribution pension plans

Foreigners whose entry or stay is not sanctioned

Horizontally integrated enterprise

Integrated economic accounts

Money purchase pension plans

Non-cultivated biological resources

Other land and associated surface water

Recreational land and associated surface water

Resources

Vertically integrated enterprise

National accounts

Change in real national net worth

Country of usual residence

Foreign population of a country

Foreign-born population of a country

GNI (gross national income)

Gross national disposable income

Gross national income (GNI)

Gross national product (GNP)

Integrated Pest Management

National disposable income

National expenditure

National income

National private corporations (non-financial and financial)

National wealth

Net national disposable income

Net national income

SNA (System of National Accounts)

System of National Accounts (SNA)

Visitors (from abroad to the country)

Population Equivalent (in waste-water monitoring and treatment)

Resource management

Effective Dose Equivalent

Environmentally Adjusted National Income (ENI)

Equivalent Factors

National Estate

National Parks

Roentgen Equivalent Man (REM)

Satellite System (of national accounts)

System of integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA)

Common Property Resources (environmental)

Conditionally Renewable (Natural) Resources

Country identifier

Depletion (in natural resource accounting)

Genetic Resources

Natural Resource Accounting

Natural Resources

Non-renewable Natural Resources

Quality management

Range Management

Renewable Natural Resources

Resource rent

Risk Management

Solid Waste Management

Stream Bank Management

Waste Management

Advanced Treatment Technology (waste water)

Artificial Water Impoundment

Brackish Water

Confined Water Well

Drinking Water Standards

Dystrophic Water

Hard Water

Humic Water

Net Abstraction of Water

Net Duty of Water

Offstream Use of Water

Potable Water

Protection of Ambient Water

Salt Water Intrusion

Saprobic Water Classification

Storm Water

Surface Water

Waste Water

Waste-water Treatment

Water Abstraction

Water Conservation

Water Cycle

Water Erosion

Water Hyacinth

Water Lily

Water Mining

Water Pollution

Water Quality

Water Quality Classes

Water Quality Criteria

Water Quality Index

Water Quality Monitoring

Water Supply System

Water Table

Water Treatment

Water Use

Water Withdrawal

Water-based Disease

Water-related Disease

Tangible non-produced assets

Community Structure

Transboundary Pollution

Land

SEEA

Payroll taxes

REM

Sievert

Stream Flow Regulations

Non-resident

Transactions account

Climosequence

Depletion of natural economic assets

European System for the Collection of Economic Information on the Environment (SERIEE)

Mudflats

ENI

Environmental Accounting

Global Commons

Mining, manufacturing and utilities

World Heritage

Transfer price

Agronomy

Artificial Watercourse

Clear-cutting

Illegitimate birth

Resident

Silviculture

Transitivity (in international comparisons)

Classification of Environmental Protection Activities (CEPA)

Domain groups

Ekistics

Nominal holding gain (by non-residents)

Zoning

Dose (radiology)

Legitimate birth

Informal sector

Aldrin

Counterurbanization

Debt-for-nature Swap

Greenhouse Climate Response Index

Marine Park

Missing data

PPP (purchasing power parity)

Processing error

Purchasing power parity (PPP)

Sustainable Income

Exchange rates

Extinct Species

Fugitive Emissions

Inorganic Matter

Invertebrate

Non-response rate

Permanent Crops

Real holding gains/losses (non-residents)

Reference area

Solid Waste Disposal

Conservation

Double entry

Environmental Debt

International organisations

Monitoring Well

Natural Capital

Out-of-scope units

UNEP

Current international cooperation

Maternal death

Note issuance facilities

Regional central bank

Short-term loans

Total economy

Vulnerable Species

Misclassification

Over-coverage

Quality differences

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

AMA rate

Account

Environmental Assets

Fiscal year

Opportunity cost

Waterborne Disease

Ecodevelopment

Indoor Air Pollution

Informal Settlements

Air Pollution

Air Quality Standards

Critical Load

Dry Tundra

Environmental Functions

Exotic Species

Low-level Radioactive Wastes

Marginal Settlements

Maximum Sustainable Yield

Measure of Economic Welfare (MEW)

Mulch Farming

Mutation

Natural Selection

Other accumulation entries

Other flows

Primary Energy Consumption

Rebasing

User-pays Principle

C.i.f. price

Central government

Centre of economic interest

Economic interest - centre of

Economic territory (of an international organisation)

F.o.b. price

Historic cost accounting

Illegal production

Neutral holding gain

Parity progression ratio

Population (3 definitions)

Quota

Reinvested earnings on direct foreign investment

Trading gains and losses

Vital statistics system

Access rights

Capacity of Treatment Installation

Civil Status

Corporation

Cultivated assets

Direct investment enterprise - foreign

Employers' actual social contributions

Foreign direct investment enterprise

Hotelling Rent

Other intangible non-produced assets

Private corporations (non-financial and financial)

Production

Refusal rate

Response rate

Unquoted shares

Citizens in transit

Confidentiality

Contingent assets

Dual Supply System

Foreigners in transit

Information system

Methodological soundness

Adjustment

International statistical standard

Official statistics

Urbanization

Bacterial Count

Current transfers

Epilimnion

Excursionists (also called "same-day" visitors)

Existence Value

Field Capacity

Final consumption expenditure of households

Financial auxiliaries

Financial intermediation services indirectly measured (FISIM)

FISIM (financial intermediation services indirectly measured)

Household final consumption expenditure

Impoundment

Influent

Inventories of materials and supplies

Materials and supplies - inventories

Non-deductible VAT

Non-market producers

Non-monetary gold

Non-monetary transactions

Other machinery and equipment

Price adjusted rate of exchange (PARE)

Principal rate

VAT - non-deductible

Antiques and other art objects

Fallow Agricultural Land

Health

Out-of-wedlock birth

Outworker

Stateless persons

Tourists

Valuables

Agenda 21

Allocation of primary income account

Clean Technology

Employers' imputed social contributions

Environmental Externalities

Environmentally Adjusted Net Domestic Product (EDP)

Goods and services account

Hydrology

Implicit price deflator

Imputed social contributions

IUCN

Net Price

Other depository corporations

Overpumping

Real holding gain

Soil Conservation

Total fertility

User Cost

WWF

Adapted Products

Agricultural Run-off

Balance of primary incomes

Balance sheet

Bank Filtration

Biomonitoring

Corrosion

Dissolved Solids

Dual Flushing System

Energy Conversion Factors

Evapotranspiration

Flocculation

Foreign excursionists (also called "same-day visitors")

Freshwater

Historic monuments

Net

Neutral holding gain (by non-residents)

Offstream Fish Farming

Satellite accounts

Stumpage Value

Taxes and duties on imports

Aerosol Propellant

Alkalinization

Artificial Recharge

Asbestos

Benthos

Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD)

Born out of wedlock

Central bank

Cholera

Coliform Index

Contributory cause of death

Cyclone Collector

Dam

Dendrocoelum Lacteum

Discharge

Dual Purpose Sewer

Environmental Media

Groundwater Reservoir

Groundwater Surface

Hydrolysis

Hydroponics

Hydropower

Infiltration

Inventories of work-in progress

Lahar

Loading

Long-term loans

Long-term securities other than shares

Malaria

Non-profit institutions serving households (NPISHs)

NPISHs (non-profit institutions serving households)

Oil Dark

Onchocerciasis

Particulate Loadings

Permeability

Plankton

Polysaprobe

Price relative

Purchased goodwill

Raw Sewage

Recharge

Reserve assets

Reservoir

River-regulating Reservoir

Sedimentation

Sewage

Short-term securities other than shares

Skimming

Soil Drainage

State government

Subsoil Assets

Transpiration

Turbidity

UN Operational rates

Unincorporated enterprise

Volume index

Work-in-progress - inventories

Agroforestry

Cultivated natural assets

Gross domestic product (GDP)

Individual Transferable Quota (ITQ)

Individual Transferable Share Quota (ITSQ)

Marine Pollution

Non-point Source of Pollution

Salinization

Shares of GDP

Universal Soil Loss Equation

Data set

Market Valuation

Overland Flow

Sewerage Network

Air Basin

Bacterial Purity

Biodegradation

Biologic Erosion

Biological Waste

Biosphere

Check Irrigation

Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD)

Chlorination

Citizens deported from abroad

Cladophora Blanket Weed

Coastal Zone

Comminution

Cooling Tower

Denitrification

Digester

Dilution

Environmental Conditioning

Geomorphology

Groundwater Run-off

Heat Sink

Incineration with Recovery of Energy

Instream Aeration

Instream Use

Land Reclamation

Limestone Scrubbing

Liming

Monitoring

Natural Assets

Net migration rate

Nitrogenous Oxygen Demand (NOD)

Outfall Sewer

p.p.m./p.p.b./p.p.t.

Percolation

Phosphorus

Photosynthesis

Precipitation-effectiveness Ratio

Preliminary Treatment

Protected Area

Recharge Area

Riparian Habitat

Rural population

Saturated Soil

Scrubber

Scum Collector

Sedimentation Tank

Sheet Erosion

Silt

Sludge

Soil Sealing

Sullage

Urban population

Urban Run-off

Waste Stabilization Pond

Weathering

Adoption

Aeration

Background Station

Border workers

Capital Accumulation (environmental accounting)

Chloro-fluorocarbons (CFCs)

Coagulation

Creaming

Defensive Expenditure

Depletion Costs

Dilution Ratio

Discounting (of natural assets)

Dissolved Oxygen (DO)

Employment-based settlers

End-of-pipe technology

Endangered Species

Entrepreneurs and investors (as settlers)

Environmentally-adjusted net Capital Formation (ECF)

Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)

Fish stock

Foreign border workers

Foreign business travelers

Foreign tourists

Foreigners seeking asylum

Foreigners whose status is regularized

Fungi

Genuine Saving

Human Development

Hydrologic Cycle

Irrigation

Maintenance (Cost) Valuation (environmental accounting)

Marsh

McKelvey Box

Natural Patrimony Accounting

Nomads

Non-produced natural assets

Other accumulation

Overpopulation

Physical Accounting

Plastics

Project-tied migrant workers

Rare Species

Remote Sensing

Selective Cutting

Soot Fall

Squatter Settlements

Sustainability

Tertiary Treatment

Waste

World Conservation Strategy

Adjustment for the change in the net equity of households in pension fund reserves

Analytical unit

Base year (BSYR)

Bonds and debentures

Consumer durables

Factor cost

Flows in real terms

Forward contract

Goods for resale - inventories

Hedonic method

Homogeneous production unit

Imputed expenditure

Income

Indirect taxes

Inventories of goods for resale

Inventories of other work-in-progress

Leases and other transferable contracts

Long-term migrant

Maintenance and repairs (of fixed assets)

Major renovations or enlargements (of fixed assets)

Market non-profit institutions serving businesses

Net equity of households in life insurance reserves and in pension funds

Non-market output - other

Non-profit institutions (NPIs)

NPIs (non-profit institutions)

Options

Other changes in assets account

Other depository corporations - other

Other intangible fixed assets

Other non-market establishments

Other non-market output

Other non-market producers

Other structures

Other valuables

Other work-in-progress - inventories

Premium supplements

Quantity index

Reference period

Reference rate of interest

Rerouting (transactions)

Social assistance benefits

Social assistance benefits in cash

Social assistance benefits in kind

Social contributions by self-employed and non-employed persons

Stamp taxes

Taxes on entertainment

Taxes on pollution

Taxes paid to obtain business and professional licences

Transfers of individual non-market goods or services

Unit value index

Usual residence

Value added tax (VAT)

Wages and salaries in kind

Zero-coupon bonds

Activated Carbon

Activated Sludge

Air Curtain

Algae

Ancenstry-based settlers

Beef Cattle Feedlot

Birth history

Causes of death

Certifier (of cause of death)

Detergent

Domestic employees

Drip Irrigation

Electrodialysis

Escherichia Coli (E. Coli)

Family-based settlers

Foetal death

Foreign military personnel

Foreign retirees (as settlers)

Foreigners admitted for family formation or reunification

Foreigners admitted for humanitarian reasons (other than asylum proper or temporary protection)

Foreigners having the right to free establishment

General Data Dissemination System, GDDS

Hypolimnion

Imputation

Judicial (legal) separation

Leachate

Legitimation

Live birth

Model assumption error

Multiple Land Use

Precipitation

Record linkage

Refugees

Repatriating asylum-seekers

Returning migrants

Run-off

Schistosomiasis

Sewer

Short-term migrant

Slow Sand Filtration

Target population

Trickling Filter

Aquaculture

Civil registration system

Dependants

Diplomats and consular personnel

Foreign students

International civil servants

Other volume changes

Acid Deposition

Agricultural Waste

Bacteria

Biological Treatment Technology

Biomass

Blue-green Algae

Building Codes

Catch per unit of effort (CPUE)

Channelization

Chemical Treatment (of hazardous waste)

Chromium

Closed Ecological System

Coastal Lagoons

Coliform Organism

Contaminant

Denudation

Desalinization

Dew Point

Diatomaceous Earth

Disinfection

Dredging

Ecological Footprint

Energy Sources

Enrichment

Environment Statistics

Environmental Disease

Environmental Services

Erosion

Estuary

Fen

Filtration

Flue Gas

Fluorosis

Forest Functions

Groundwater

Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)

Land Drainage

Life-support System

Maternal mortality rate

Mechanical Treatment Technology

Nitrate

Oil Spill

Osmosis

Overgrazing

Oxidation Pond

Phenols

Pollution

Pollution Abatement

Pollution of Poverty

Protection against Erosion

Protection against Natural Hazards

Rainwater

Septic Tank

Sewage Lagoon

Sinking

Soil Conditioner

Storm Tank

Swamp

Terracing

Waterlogging

Wetland

Annulment

Asylum-seekers

Born in wedlock

Civil registrar

Civil registration

Complete civil registration

Contract migrant workers

Divorce

Foreign migrant workers

Foreign trainees

Foreigners admitted for settlement

Foreigners granted temporary protected status

Seasonal migrant workers

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