sustainability the responsible use and management of resources to meet current needs while ensuring future generations can also meet theirs
sustainable able to be cared for and maintained talons a claw, especially belonging to a bird of prey
target market a market at which a product is deliberately aimed tenant farmers poor farmers who rented small plots of land Thracian a native of the Roman province of Thracia timeline a diagrammatic tool representing a period of time, on which events are placed in chronological order torrential rain heavy rain often associated with storms, which can result in þash þooding tree change the act of leaving a fast-paced urban life for a more relaxing lifestyle in a small country town, in the bush, or on the land as a farmer trial the court process to determine whether someone committed a criminal act tribalism behaviour and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one’s own social group, sometimes in opposition to other groups troposphere layer of the atmosphere closest to Earth, extending about 17 kilometres above Earth’s surface, but thicker at the tropics and thinner at the poles; where weather occurs typhoons the name given to cyclones in the Asian region undernourished not getting enough food for good health and growth unicameral a parliament with only one house University of the Third Age a movement promoting lifelong learning during retirement or later life unlimited liability where a business owner is personally responsible for all the debts of their business uranium a dense grey radioactive metal used as a fuel in nuclear reactors urban decay the process where a once functioning city or part of a city falls into disrepair and is abandoned. This is often the result of economic factors such as the decline of an industry leading to a lack of employment. Valley of the Kings gorge on the Nile in Upper Egypt that contains many royal tombs values principles that help you to decide what is right and wrong, and how to act in various situations vassal state a state whose ruler recognises another, more powerful ruler as overlord virtual water all the hidden water used to produce goods and services virtue a moral standard or value wage payment for work completed or services performed, usually dependent on hours worked per week ormonth wants goods or services that are desired in order to provide satisfaction to the user, but which are not necessary for survival or to meet the basic standard of living in a community warlords generals from powerful landowning families water footprint the total volume of fresh water that is used to produce the goods and services consumed by an individual or a country water scarcity when the demand for water is greater than the supply available water stress a situation that occurs in a country with less than 1000 cubic metres of renewable fresh water per person weir a low dam built across a river to raise the level of upstream water to regulate the þow and catch ýsh wellbeing an overall measure of quality of life Westminster system based on the British Parliament and used by many countries, including Australia; named after the Palace of Westminster, where the British Parliament meets White Australia Policy informal name for the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 , which effectively prevented non-European immigration to Australia whiteouts a weather condition where visibility and contrast is reduced by snow; individuals become disoriented because they cannot distinguish the ground from the sky wilderness a natural place that has been almost untouched or unchanged by the actions of people witness someone who saw or knows something important about a crime work–life balance the division of one’s time and focus between working and family or leisure activities Xiongnu the ancient Chinese name for the nomadic Turkic tribes of Central Asia GLOSSARY 629
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