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pollution
- Subject Category
- P Natural Resources, Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Definition
- The presence in the environment of one or more contaminants, nuisances, and the like in sufficient quantities and of such characteristics and duration as to be injurious or irritating to human, plant, or animal life, to health, or to property, or to unreasonably interfere with the enjoyment of life or property.
- Definition Source
- Schwarz, Charles F.; Thor, Edward C.; Elsner, Gary H. 1976. Wildland planning glossary. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-13. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station
- RDF/XML Format:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/5845.rdf
- Persistent URI:
- http://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/5845
- Used For
- contaminants in environment
- environmental contaminants
- environmental contamination
- environmental pollution
- USE FOR And Type
- heavy metal pollution
- Broader Term
- environmental degradation
- Narrower Term
- agricultural pollution
- air pollution
- noise pollution
- nonpoint source pollution
- point source pollution
- pollution load
- radioactive pollution
- sediment contamination
- smog pollution
- soil pollution
- water pollution
- Related Term
- brownfields
- clean fuels
- ecotoxicology
- environmental hazards
- forest health
- indicator species
- microbial bioremediation
- permissible exposure limit
- pesticide persistence
- pollutants
- pollution control
- Spanish
- polución
- Term Number
- 5845