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A museum is a not-for-profit, permanent institution in the service of society that researches, collects, conserves, interprets and exhibits tangible and intangible heritage. Open to the public, accessible and inclusive, museums foster diversity and sustainability. They operate and communicate ethically, professionally and with the participation of communities, offering varied experiences for education, enjoyment, reflection and knowledge sharing. (International Council of Museums. 2022. Museum Definition https://icom.museum/en/resources/standards-guidelines/museum-definition/)

Propagation by cuttings involves rooting a severed piece of the parent plant or, in some cases, producing new plants from severed pieces of tissue (leaf cuttings). (North Carolina Extension. 2022. North Carolina Extension Gardener Handbook 13. Propagation https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/extension-gardener-handbook/13-propagation)

A solid substance that attracts gases or dissolved substances to its surface e.g. charcoal adsorbs gases and cotton adsorbs liquids. (FAOTERM)

The process of creating and implementing plans, programs, and projects to sustain and enhance watershed functions that affect the plant, animal, and human communities within a watershed boundary. (California Watershed Program, retrieved in 2009 (http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dlrp/wp/Documents/California%20Watershed%20Program.pdf); DN, CSCM, FAO, 2009. )

The process of collecting and concentrating runoff water from a runoff area into a run-on area, where the collected water is either directly applied to the cropping area and stored in the soil profile for immediate use by the crop (i.e. runoff farming) or stored in an on-farm water reservoir for future productive uses (i.e. domestic use, livestock watering and aquaculture irrigation). (FAO. 2022. The State of the World’s Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture – Systems at breaking point. Main report. Rome. https://doi.org/10.4060/cb9910en)

The amount of polluting material that a transporting agent, such as a stream, a glacier, or the wind, is actually carrying at a given time. (https://www.eionet.europa.eu/gemet/en/concept/6422)

Soil Moisture Deficit (SMD) is the amount of rain needed to bring the soil moisture content back to field capacity. (Éireann, Ireland’s National Meteorological Service. 2025. Agri-Meteorological Data https://www.met.ie/climate/services/agri-meteorological-data)

Wastewater that is produced by industries as an undesirable by-product. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_wastewater_treatment)

Process to render wastewater fit to meet environmental standards or other quality norms. Three broad types of treatment may be distinguished: mechanical, biological and advanced. (United Nations Organization (1997) Glossary of environment statistics. Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division. Studies and Methods, ST/ESA/STAT/Ser.F, (67))

Hydromorphic soils are characterised by the reduction or localised segregation of iron, owing to the temporary or permanent waterlogging of the soil pores which causes a lack of oxygen over a long period. (Duchaufour, P. (1982). Hydromorphic soils. In: Pedology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6003-2_12)