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ECOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY [2 records]

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Record 1 2016-01-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Federal Government Programs (Canadian)
  • Environmental Economics
OBS

One aim of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy's Eco-efficiency Program is to advise the federal government on establishing specific targets to help industry and other sectors become significantly more eco-efficient within one generation, and on the implications of the targets for development of new technologies. The program will investigate the possible development of a measurement system for eco-efficiency, including methods of assessing the eco-efficiency concept. It will also work with targeted industrial sectors to select, design and implement a core set of environmental performance indicators.

Key term(s)
  • Eco-efficiency Programme
  • ecological efficiency program
  • ecological efficiency programme

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de programmes fédéraux (Gouvernement canadien)
  • Économie environnementale
OBS

L'un des objectifs du Programme d'éco-efficacité de la Table ronde nationale sur l'environnement et l'économie consiste à conseiller le gouvernement fédéral sur l'établissement d'objectifs bien précis pour aider l'industrie et d'autres secteurs à devenir beaucoup plus éco-efficace en une génération, et sur les implications de ces objectifs pour le développement de nouvelles technologies. Le programme se penchera sur le développement possible d'un système de mesure de l'éco-efficacité, y compris des méthodes d'évaluation du concept de l'éco-efficacité. Il travaillera également en collaboration avec certains secteurs industriels pour choisir, concevoir et mettre en place un ensemble de base d'indicateurs de rendement environnemental [sic : de performance environnementale].

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de programas federales (Gobierno canadiense)
  • Economía del medio ambiente
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Record 2 2009-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Biochemistry
DEF

The energy needed by a living organism to produce protoplasm.

OBS

It is usually expressed in units, and to determine this efficiency several ratios have to be calculated, including the absorption ratio, growth ratio and increase ratio. Pollution or changes in environment created by pollution can effect the ecological efficiency of living things, to the detriment of all life on earth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Biochimie
DEF

Rapport, exprimé en pourcentage, entre la quantité d'énergie assimilée au niveau trophique n et l'énergie assimilée au niveau trophique n-1.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Bioquímica
DEF

Parámetro que valora la eficacia en la utilización de la energía biológica por parte de un nivel trófico, expresada en tanto por ciento.

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