The milieu in which an organism lives. Includes the sum of all of its surroundings. This includes natural forces and other living things. It defines the conditions of danger and damage to

Identifying risks in the external environment, then conducting an analysis.

1. Evaluation; Current status of an organization’s compliance to local environmental laws and regulations is established by a independent third party assessment. 2. Financial advantages and disadvantages of moving to a more

Measured calculation for estimating relative merits and demerits of a project. Evaluation and comparison of capital and environmental costs.

Equitable sharing of environmental impacts by a community. Environmental policies and laws strive to ensure that no one group or community bears a larger, unfair share of harmful effects from pollution or

Degradation of a pollutant, documented in stages, once it is placed in an environment. Pollutants can be chemical, like a pesticide, or biological, like an enzyme.

Optional practices and guidance focused on the management of air emissions, wastewater effluents, and solid waste. Collection of current best environmental practices.

Objective evidence of an EIA exercise as a written record submitted to the deciding authority. It proposes measures to avoid, mitigate, or offset adverse effects and impacts. An EIR is only a

A non-governmental organization (NGO) focused specifically on the environment and its unique issues.

Environmental guardianship based on policies and procedures. Objectives are (1) the conserving of natural resources, (2) the preserving of the existing natural environment and, (3) where possible, repairing damage and reversing trends.

Objective evidence of environmental conditions as a public disclosure. Focused on a firm’s environmental performance information. Very much like public statements of financial performance information.

Methods and tools used to maintain environmental sustainability.

Expected positive net impact over a specific period of time. Measure of the quality of an organization’s activities on the environment.

Study of distribution, pattern, and cause of diseases in a specific population. The objective is to determine and trace events and reasons causing epidemic-like situations. Resulting information leads to more effective plans,

A epistemology-related thing or event. Focus of this thing or event is the limits of human understanding, the study of knowledge, its basis, nature, and origins.

The study of the limits of human understanding, the study of knowledge, its basis, nature, and origins. Seeks to answer how knowledge is gained, what it is, and how to measure and

A CORPORATE FINANCE practice where an acquirer buys a company with a low PRICE/EARNINGS RATIO through a STOCK SWAP in order to boost the postacquisition EARNINGS PER SHARE (EPS) of the newlyformed

Buying a different type of convertible securities, such as preferred stock, from the selling of common stock in the same company or a similar company in the same amounts.

Assigning equal prior-occurrence probability to each possible event when nothing is known about the likelihood of their occurrence. A Decision-theory concept.

Each opportunity is available to everyone equally regardless of their age, race, sex, religion, political association, ethnic origin, and any other individual or group characteristic unrelated to ability, performance, and qualification. The