| Abbreviation |
Meaning |
|
| A |
| AAPS |
Arable Area Payments Scheme |
|
| AONB |
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty |
|
| AWU |
Agricultural work units,
the equivalent of a whole time worker |
|
| B |
| BSE |
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy |
|
| BSFP |
British Survey of Fertiliser
Practice |
|
| BTO |
British Trust for Ornithology |
|
| C |
| CAP |
Common Agricultural Policy |
|
| CEH |
Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology |
|
| CH4 |
Methane |
|
| CO2 |
Carbon dioxide |
|
| CQC |
Countryside Quality Counts |
|
| CROW |
Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 |
|
| CS (CSS) |
Countryside stewardship
scheme |
|
| CSL |
Central Science Laboratory |
|
| CS2000 |
Countryside 2000, survey
approximately every 8 years |
|
| D |
| DfT |
Department for Transport |
|
| DTI |
Department of Trade &
Industry |
|
| DUKES |
Digest of UK Energy Statistics
(DTI) |
|
| E |
| EA |
Environment Agency |
|
| EBS |
England Biodiversity Strategy |
|
| ELS |
Entry level stewardship
(from 2005, piloted in 2003/04) |
|
| EN |
English Nature |
|
| ESA |
Environmentally Sensitive
Area, designated area or agri-environment scheme |
|
| EU |
European Union |
|
| Eurostat |
Statistical Office of
the European Community |
|
| F |
| FBS |
Farm business survey |
|
| FMD |
Foot and Mouth Disease |
|
| FPS |
Farm practices survey |
|
| G |
| GAEC |
Good agricultural and environmental condition |
|
| GHG |
Greenhouse gas(es) (emissions) |
|
| GQA |
General Quality Assessment (EA water monitoring) |
|
| H |
| HGCA |
Home Grown Cereals Authority |
|
| HLS |
Higher level environmental stewardship
(replaced ESA & CS schemes from 2005) |
|
| J |
| JNCC |
Joint Nature Conservation
Committee |
|
| JCA |
Joint Character Area |
|
| N |
| N |
Nitrogen |
|
| NAEI |
National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory |
|
| NO3 |
Nitrate (fertiliser) |
|
| NOx |
Nitrogen Oxides |
|
| Netcen |
National environment technology
centre |
|
| NH3 |
Ammonia |
|
| N2O |
Nitrous oxide |
|
| NVZ(s) |
Nitrate Vulnerable Zone(s) |
|
| O |
| ONS |
Office for National Statistics |
|
| OTMS |
Over Thirty Month Scheme |
|
| P |
| P |
Phosphorus |
|
| PJ |
Petajoules, joules x 1015 (used for energy comparison) |
|
| P2O5 |
Phosphate (fertiliser) |
|
| PSA |
Public service agreement |
|
| PSD |
Pesticide Safety Directorate |
|
| PUS |
Pesticide Usage Survey |
|
| R |
| RPA |
Rural Payments Agency |
|
| RSPB |
Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds |
|
| S |
| SAC |
Special areas of conservation |
|
| SAP |
Soil Action Plan |
|
| SFFS |
Sustainable Farming and
Food Strategy (published by Defra in December 2002) |
|
| SO2 |
Sulphur Dioxide |
|
| SPA |
Special protection areas |
|
| SPS |
Single Payment Scheme |
|
| SSSI(s) |
Site(s) of special scientific
interest |
|
| T |
| TOE |
Tonnes of oil equivalent
(energy) |
|
| U |
| UKBAP |
UK biodiversity action plan |
|
| V |
| VI |
Voluntary Initiative |
|
| W |
| WFD |
Water framework directive |
|
| WTO |
World Trade Organisation |
|
