AAPPMA Association Agréée de Pêche et de Protection des Milieux Aquatiques

ABARE Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics

ABS Australian Bureau of Statistics

ACCA Association Communale de Chasse Agréée (FR)

ACE Action Communautaire pour l'Environnement

ACE Advisory Committee on the Environment (ICSU)

ACID Acidification Chemistry Information Data Base (BNL)

ACIRENE Association de Création, d'Information et de Recherche pour une Écoute Nouvelle de l'Environnement

ACNAT Action Communautaire pour la conservation de la Nature

ADEME Agence de l'Environnement et de la Maîtrise de l'Énergie (FR)

AEDD Arctic Environment Data Directory

AEE Agence Européenne pour l'Environnement

AER Assessment of Environmental Risk

AFDM Ash Free Dry Mass

AFSSE Agence Française de Sécurité Sanitaire Environnementale

AIZC Aménagement Intégré des Zones Cotières

ALCC Agricultural Land Cover Change

ANCGG Association Nationale des Chasseurs de Grand Gibier

AOMSL Association Ornithologique et Mammalogique de Saône et Loire

APMP Acid Precipitation Mitigation Program (NAPAP)

APPB Arrêté Préfectoral de Protection du Biotope

APPMA Association de Pêche et de Protection des Milieux Aquatiques

ARENE Agence Régionale de l'Environnement et des Nouvelles Énergies de l'Ile de France

ARTEMIS Africa Real Time Environmental Monitoring System (FAO)

ASAL Arid and Semi-Arid Lands

ASCEND Agenda of Science for Environment and Development into the 21st Century

ASEP ASEAN Subregion Environment Program

ASOEN ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment

ASPAS Association pour la Protection des Animaux Sauvages (FR)

ASTE Association pour le Développement des Sciences et Techniques de l'Environnement

ASTEE Association Scientifique et Technique pour l'Eau et l'Environnement

Basel Convention Convention de Basle

BBEP Biotechnology & Environmental Protection (USDA/APHIS)

BEE Bureau Européen de l'Environnement

BEST Business Environment Simplification Task Force

BiE Business in the Environment

BIODEPTH Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes in Terrestrial Herbaceous Ecosystems

BIONET Biodiversity Action Network (USA)

BIRS Bureau International des Recherches sur la Sauvagine

BLI Bird Life International

BMP Best Management Practices

BRS Bureau of Resource Sciences (AU)

CAFF Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna

CBDConvention on Biological Diversity (USA)

CE-DGE Commission Européenne - Direction Générale de l'Environnement

CEFE-CNRS Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

CEI Center for Environmental Information

CELS Coalition for Education in the Life Sciences

CENR Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources (USA, NCST)

CEOS Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

CEPA Canada Environmental Protection Act

CEQ Council on Environmental Quality (USA)

CEQA California Environmental Quality Act (USA)

CERCLA Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (1980)

CERES California Environmental Resource Evaluation System

CERL Corvallis Environmental Research Laboratory (EPA)

CERR Centre d'Ecologie des Ressources Renouvelables (FR)

CES Committee on Earth Science

CGED Committee on Geophysical Environmental Data (NAS)

CGES Center for Global Environmental Studies

CIDIE Committee of International Development Institutions for the Environment

CIEA Committee on International Environmental Activities

CIST Centre d'Information sur les Sciences de la Terre (Canada)

CLE Comité Local d'Experts

CNAP Catalogue des Normes Anti Pollution

CNUED Conférence des Nations Unies sur l'Environnement et le Développement

COMIDES Interstate Committee of Ministers on Desertification

COMMPS Combined Monitoring-based and Modelling-based Priority Setting (EU, procedure to identify waters dangerous substances)

Conservatoire du littoral

CORINE Coordination des Informations sur l'Environnement (programme communautaire)

COSSE Comité pour la Sauvegarde de la Santé et de l'Environnement (FR)

CPI Centre Permanent d'Information à l'environnement (FR)

CREN Chemical Research and Environmental Needs

CRESP Coordinated Research and Environmental Surveillance Programme (NEA)

CRP Comité Régional de Pêche

CRPE Centre de Recherches en Physique de l'Environment Terrestre et Planétaire

CSE Centre for Science and Environment

CSP Conseil Supérieur de la Pêche

CSTEE Comité Scientifique pour la Toxicité, l'Ecotoxicité et l'Environnement (EU)

CW Chemical Weapons / Armes Chimiques

CWA Clean Water Act (USA)

CWC Chemical Weapons Convention

CZ Conservation Zone

CZM Coastal Zone Management

DCW Digital Chart of the World

DDEN Direction Départementale de l'Environnement et de la Nature (FR)

DEC Department of Environmental Conservation (USA, NYS)

DEP Department of Environmental Protection

DIREN Direction Régionale de l'ENvironnement (FR)

DM Dry Matter (same as MS)

DNR Department of Natural Resources

DPE Data Processing Environment

DEIS Draft Environmental Impact Statement

DIREN Directions Régionales de l'Environnement (FR)

DOE Department of the Environment (CA)

DRIRE Direction Régionale de l'Industrie, de la Recherche et de l'Environnement (FR)

DRIRE Ile de France

DWR Department of Water Resources

EA Environmental Assessment

EADS Environmental Assessment Data System

EAOS Environment Australia Online Service

EAP Environmental Affairs Program

EAs Environmental Assessments

EAS Environmental Analyses Section (ORNL)

EASE Emission Abatement Strategies and the Environment

ECB Environment Coordination Board (UN)

ECN Environmental Change Network

ECNC European Centre for Nature Conservation

ED Environmental Damage

EDIS Environmental Data and Information Service

EDMAS Environmental Dose Modeling and Analysis System

EDS Environmental Data Service

EEA European Environment Agency

EEB European Environment Bureau

EEN The European Ecological Network

EES Environment Effects Statement

EHS Environmental Health Standards

EIA Environmental Impact Assessment (same as EIE)

EIM Environmental Information Management

EIONET European Environment Information & Observation Network / Réseau européen d'information et d'observation sur l'environnement

ELC Environmental Law Centre (CA, Alberta)

EMA Environmental Management Agency

EMAP Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (USA, EPA)

EMAS Community Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (european environmental management system for the companies)

EMC Environmental Management Committee

EMECS Environmental Management of Enclosed Coastal Seas

EMI Environment Management Industries

EML Environmental Measurements Laboratory (DOE)

EMR Electromagnetic Radiation

EMSL Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory (EPA)

EMSL-LV Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory - Las Vegas (Nevada) (EPA)

ENF Espaces Naturels de France. Fédération des conservatoires régionaux d'espaces naturels

ENRIC Environment and Natural Resources Information Center

ENVI Environnement Impact

ENVIREG Environnement Régional (programme communautaire)

Environment Environnement

ENVIS Environmental Information System

ENVISAT Environmental Satellite

EOC Earth Observation Center

EPA Environmental Protection Agency (USA) / Agence pour la protection de l'environnement

EPA Environmental Protection Authority (Victoria, Australia)

EPC Environmental Protection Committee (Bahrain)

EPD European Pollen Database

EPER Environmental Processes and Effects Research (program)

EPI Environmental Productivity Index

EPM Environmental Planning and Management

EPOC Environment Protection Policy (OECD)

EPP Environment Protection Program

EQO Environment Quality Objective

ER Environmental Requirement

ERFU Environmental Restoration and Facilities Upgrade Program

ERIM Environmental Research Institute of Michigan

ERIN Earth Resources Information Network

ERL Environmental Research Laboratory (Boulder, Colorado) (NOAA)

ERP Environmental Research Park

ERS Earth Remote Sensing Satellite

ERT Environment Round Table

ESA Endangered Species Act (USA)

ESA Environmentally Sensitive Area

ESAM Institute for Environmental Science and Management

ESC European Seismological Commission

ESD Environmental Sciences Division (ORNL)

ESI Environmental Sensitivity Index

ESRC Environmental Science Research Center

ESRI Environmental Systems Research Institute

EST Environmental Science and Technology (FR)

ETF Environmental Task Force

EUCC European Union The Coastal Union / L'Union Côtière

EUP Experimental Use Permit

FAEWE Functional Analysis of European Wetland Ecosystems

FDP Fédération Départementale de Pêche (FR)

FFSPN Fédération Française des Sociétés de Protection de la Nature (FR)

FIELD Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development

FNC Fédération Nationale des Chasseurs

FNE France Nature Environnement (association)

FOE Friends Of the Earth / Amis de la terre

FOEI Friends Of the Earth International / Amis de la terre international

FPNRF Fédération des parcs naturels régionaux de France

FRAPNA Fédération Rhône-Alpes de protection de la Nature

GBI Green Biomass Index

GCP Gestion intégrée des Cycles de Projet

GEC Global Environment Change

GEF Global Environment Facility (WB, UNDP, and UNEP)

GEF Global Environmental Fund

GEM Geospace Environment Modeling

GEMS Global Environmental Monitoring System (UNEP) / Système mondial de surveillance continue de l'environnement

GENESIS Global Environmental and Ecological Simulation of Interactive Systems

GENIE Global Environmental Network for Information Exchange

GER Global Environmental Research (U.K.)

GERG Global Environment Research Group

GICCW Government-Industry Conference against Chemical Weapons

GLAI Green Leaf Area Index

GLOBE Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment

GLOSS Global Sea Level Observing System

GMAC Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee

GMOs Genetically Manipulated Organisms

GOES Geostationary (or Geosynchronous) Operational Environmental Satellite (NASA)

GOSEAC Group of Specialists on Environmental Affairs and Conservation

HAGE Human Activity and Global Environment

HDGEC Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (ISSC)

HEM Harmonisation of Environmental Measurement

HQE Haute Qualité Environnementale

IACGEC Inter-Agency Committee on Global Environmental Change

IAIA International Association for Impact Assessment

ICALPE International Centre for Alpine Environments (FR, Chambéry)

ICITV Institut de la Carte Internationale du Tapis Végétal

ICONA Instituto Nacional para la Conservacion de la Naturaleza (Spain) / National Institute for the Conservation of Nature (Spain)

ICPE Installation Classée pour la Protection de l'Environnement (FR)

ICSU International Council of Scientific Unions

ICSU-ACE ICSU Advisory Committee on the Environment

IEA International Environment Assistance

IEC Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments

IECA International Erosion Control Association

IEGB Institut d'Écologie et de Gestion de la Biodiversité

IEOS International Earth Observation System

IEPF Institut de l'Énergie et de l'Environnement de la Francophonie

IES Institute for Environmental Sciences

IFEN Institut Français de l'Environnement

IFM Institut Français de la Mer (FR)

IIED International Institute for Environment and Development

ILZ Intensive Land use Zone

INFOTERRA International Referral System for Sources of Environmental Information (UNEP)

INRS Institut National de Recherche et de Sécurité

IOTA Installations, Ouvrages, Travaux, Activités relatifs à la loi sur l'eau

ISEM Institut des Sciences de l'Évolution de Montpellier

ISO 14001 Norme adoptée en 1996 par l'Organisation internationale de normalisation

- V. La gestion environnementale et la norme ISO 14001 par Corinne Gendron

IUCN International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources

JEDA Joint Environmental Data Center

JEE Japan Environment Agency

LAT Les Amis de la Terre (FR, association)

Life sciences Sciences du vivant

LTREB Long-Term Research in Environmental Biology

MADE Mise à Disposition d'Énergie Électrique (EDF)

MCP Mission de Coopération Phytosanitaire

MEDALUS Mediterranean Desertification and Land Use

MEDEA Measurements of Earth Data for Environmental Analysis (USA)

MEDS Marine Environmental Data Service (CA)

MOLAR Mountain Lake Research

MPE Map Publishing Environment

MMS Multi Spectral Scanner

MST Ministry of Environment and Science

NASA/EDC NASA / Environmental Data Centre

NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction (formerly NMC)

NDVI Normalized Difference Vegetation Index

NEB National Environmental Board

NEHA National Environmental Health Association

NEPA National Environmental Policy Act (1969) / National Environmental Protection Act (USA)

NERC National Environmental Research Centre

NERI National Environmental Research Institute

NERP National Environmental Research Park

NESDIS National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NOAA)

NESS National Environmental Satellite Service (NOAA)

NETT Network for Environmental Technology Transfer / Réseau de transfert de technologies de l'environnement

NIE National Institute for the Environment

NIEHS National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

NIES National Institute for Environmental Studies

NIGEC National Institute for Global Environmental Change

NLE National Library for the Environment

NPI National Plantation Inventory

OEC Office of Environmental Compliance

OEG Office of Environmental Guidance

OIEA Office of Integrated Environmental Analysis (EPA)

OHER Office of Health and Environmental Research (DOE)

ONC Office National de la Chasse (FR)

ONEB Office of National Environmental Board

PAVE Package for Analysis and Visualization of Environmental Data

PE Palæolimnology and Ecology

PEC Projet Environnemental Commun

PHC Probable Hydrologic Consequences

PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (NOAA and ERL)

PNUE Programme des Nations unies pour l'Environnement

POES Polar-Orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite

QW Quality of Water

RAG Réseau d'Alimentation Générale (EDF)

RESSAC Recherches en radioécologie sur des Écosystèmes Soumis à des Situations Accidentelles Contrôlées (FR, CEA, IPSN/SERE)

RIVM Netherlands National Institute of Public Health and Environmental Protection

RNI Réserve Naturelle Intégrale

RNOL Réseau National d'Observation du Littoral (FR, IFREMER)

RNRC Renewable Natural Resources Center

RNRF Renewable Natural Resources Foundation

ROC Rassemblement des Opposants à la Chasse

ROPME Regional Organization for the Protection of the Marine Environment (IOC)

RTE Réseau de Transport d'Électricité (EDF)

SAGEEP Symposium on the Application of Geophysics to Engineering and Environmental Problems

SASANEE South and Southeast Asia Network for Environmental Education

SCOPE Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU and IGBP)

SDAGE Schéma Directeur d Aménagement et de Gestion des Eaux (FR)

SEPA State Environmental Protection Agency

SER Sources d'Énergie Renouvelables (FR)

SERDP Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program

SESAME Severe Environmental Storms and Mesoscale Experiment

SESC Space Environment Service Center

SIE Système d'Information Environnemental

SPN Service du Patrimoine Naturel

SPOT Système Probatoire d'Observation de la Terre (satellite)

SPREP South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme

STD Salinity - Temperature - Depth

TIGER Terrestrial Initiative in Global Environmental Research (UK)

TM Thematic Mapper

TREES Tropical Ecosystem Environmental Observations by Satellite

UICN Union Internationale pour la Conservation de la Nature

UNCED United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development

UNEP United Nations Environment Program (ICSU)

USEPA United States Environmental Protection Agency

USGS US Geological Survey

WEF Water Environment Federation

WMD Water Management District

WQM Water Quality Monitor

ZICO Zone Importante pour la Conservation des Oiseaux

ZNIEFF Zone Naturelle d'Intérêt Écologique Faunistique et Floristique