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Temporal/Timescale Mismatches When the costs and benefits of a particular
action occur at different temporal scales, often leading to trade-offs between
short-term costs and long-term gains.
Tertiary Sector The service sector of the economy.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) The state agency that
issues surface water rights.
Thermal Discharge A discharge of warmer water into a receiving water body that
changes the temperature of the receiving water body.
Thermoelectric Power Plants Thermoelectric power plants use fuels (either
chemical or nuclear) to generate heat to drive a turbine to produce electricity.
Threat Multiplier Used to refer to the likely impact that climate change will have
on underlying social instabilities that can be exacerbated by floods, droughts,
heat waves, or other variations in weather patterns.
Ton Ton is an imperial measure of mass. There is some ambiguity, as the term may
refer to short tons, used in the US equivalent to 907.1847 kg, or to long tons,
formerly used in the UK and British Commonwealth, equivalent to 1016.047 kg.
Tonne A metric unit of mass equivalent to 1000 kg.
Top-Down Approaches, methods, and models that begin with a whole system and
deconstruct it into essential components. Top-down methods often involve estimation or approximate measurement from afar (often, from space!) and using
methods that intrinsically enforce a “mass balance” for the aggregate measure.
See Bottom-Up.
Trade Secrets Private data that a business elects to hold private to avoid providing
an unfair advantage to competitors.
Trade The buying and selling of goods and services.
Traditional Biomass Wood, charcoal, leaves, agricultural residue, animal/human
waste and urban waste (in contrast to modern renewables such as hydropower,
wind, solar, geothermal, and modern biomass.) Traditional biomass is considered renewable.
Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Community-based structures such
as tribal councils or village and/or religious leaders who help resolve disputes. In
Afghanistan, for example, “community councils (often called shuras or jirgas)
generally consist of community elders and other respected elders sitting together
to reach an equitable resolution of disputes and to reconcile the disputants, their
families and the community as a whole” (Dempsey and Coburn 2010).
Transaction Costs Expenses incurred when buying or selling a good or service. It
can be thought of as the costs of middlemen/intermediaries or the direct financial
costs of brokerage services.
U.S. EPA Net Zero Strategy An initiative of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency that aims to assist US communities, municipalities, water utilities, developers, and the military in achieving Net Zero and Net Positive Energy, Net Zero
Waste, and Net Zero Water sustainability goals. Net Zero means achieving a
balance between water demand and availability, consuming only as much energy
as is produced and producing additional energy from renewable sources, and
eliminating solid wastes sent to landfills.
Glossary
Temporal/Timescale Mismatches When the costs and benefits of a particular
action occur at different temporal scales, often leading to trade-offs between
short-term costs and long-term gains.
Tertiary Sector The service sector of the economy.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) The state agency that
issues surface water rights.
Thermal Discharge A discharge of warmer water into a receiving water body that
changes the temperature of the receiving water body.
Thermoelectric Power Plants Thermoelectric power plants use fuels (either
chemical or nuclear) to generate heat to drive a turbine to produce electricity.
Threat Multiplier Used to refer to the likely impact that climate change will have
on underlying social instabilities that can be exacerbated by floods, droughts,
heat waves, or other variations in weather patterns.
Ton Ton is an imperial measure of mass. There is some ambiguity, as the term may
refer to short tons, used in the US equivalent to 907.1847 kg, or to long tons,
formerly used in the UK and British Commonwealth, equivalent to 1016.047 kg.
Tonne A metric unit of mass equivalent to 1000 kg.
Top-Down Approaches, methods, and models that begin with a whole system and
deconstruct it into essential components. Top-down methods often involve estimation or approximate measurement from afar (often, from space!) and using
methods that intrinsically enforce a “mass balance” for the aggregate measure.
See Bottom-Up.
Trade Secrets Private data that a business elects to hold private to avoid providing
an unfair advantage to competitors.
Trade The buying and selling of goods and services.
Traditional Biomass Wood, charcoal, leaves, agricultural residue, animal/human
waste and urban waste (in contrast to modern renewables such as hydropower,
wind, solar, geothermal, and modern biomass.) Traditional biomass is considered renewable.
Traditional Dispute Resolution Mechanisms Community-based structures such
as tribal councils or village and/or religious leaders who help resolve disputes. In
Afghanistan, for example, “community councils (often called shuras or jirgas)
generally consist of community elders and other respected elders sitting together
to reach an equitable resolution of disputes and to reconcile the disputants, their
families and the community as a whole” (Dempsey and Coburn 2010).
Transaction Costs Expenses incurred when buying or selling a good or service. It
can be thought of as the costs of middlemen/intermediaries or the direct financial
costs of brokerage services.
U.S. EPA Net Zero Strategy An initiative of the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency that aims to assist US communities, municipalities, water utilities, developers, and the military in achieving Net Zero and Net Positive Energy, Net Zero
Waste, and Net Zero Water sustainability goals. Net Zero means achieving a
balance between water demand and availability, consuming only as much energy
as is produced and producing additional energy from renewable sources, and
eliminating solid wastes sent to landfills.
Glossary