Ecology

Scientific specialty focused on the study and analysis of the link that arises between living beings and the environment that surrounds them, understood as the combination of abiotic factors (among which we can mention climate and geology) and biotic factors (organisms that share the habitat). Ecology also analyzes the distribution and quantity of living organisms as a result of the aforementioned relationship.

Ecodevelopment

A particular style of development that allows achieving the full satisfaction of human needs through continuous economic and social development in harmony with the rational management of the environment.

Ecosystem

Set of interacting entities grouped into two classes: the abiotic factors that make up the biotope, and the biological species present that make up the biocenosis or community.

Environmental effect

A measurable consequence on some basic component of the environment, caused or induced by any action of man.

Greenhouse effect

This name is applied to the warming that can be caused to the atmospheric air by the entry of solar radiation when the outgoing radiation is simultaneously inhibited as a consequence of the increasing concentrations of gases such as CO2 (which is released in the combustion processes of fossil fuels), methane and some fluorocarbons, coming from sprayers and refrigerators, among others.

Emissions

Release of precursor greenhouse gases and aerosols into the atmosphere, in a specific area and time period. When they come from human activities such as industry or agriculture, they are called anthropogenic.

Energy

The ability of matter to produce work in the form of movement, light, heat, etc.

Final energy

That which is made available to the consumer, to be converted into useful energy.

Clean energy

Energy production system excluding any pollution or the management by which we get rid of all hazardous waste for our planet.

Renewable energy

Energy that uses the inexhaustible resources of nature, such as biomass, solar radiation or wind.

Environmental study

Systematic analysis of the different factors or subsystems that make up the environment, this being a set of biological, physical and chemical factors that interrelate and depend on each other.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)

Study, as objective as possible, that collects the incidents of the project in the environment and an administrative process that decides its viability.

Environmental assessment

It is to ensure, to the planner, that the development options under consideration are environmentally sound and sustainable, and that any environmental consequences are recognized early in the project cycle and taken into account for its design.

Extinction

Disappearance of a living organism with its own entity, such as a species, ecotype, variety, etc.