| Chinese | English |
| 全球碳平衡 | global carbon balance |
| 利益平衡 | balancing of interests Considering, weighing or counterbalancing the competing political or financial concerns of different parts of society, including industries, consumers, trade unions and other groups or organizations (思考、权衡或平衡包含工业界、消费者、贸易协会与其他团体或组织等不同社会部门互相竞争的政治性或财务性议题。) |
| 国际平衡 | international balance A system in which nations or blocs of nations strive to maintain an equilibrium of power to prevent dominance by any single nation or to reduce conflict or the possibility of war (一个系统中，国家或国家集团力求保持一种平衡权力，以防止任何一个国家的霸权优势、减少冲突或战争的可能性。) |
| 综合平权 衡 | compromise |
| 平衡经济学, 一个账户两方面的总量相等，或者一方超过另一方。 | balance An equality between the sums total of the two sides of an account, or the excess on either side; economic |
| 平衡的"保护"状态 | protective state of equilibrium |
| 废料平衡 | waste balance The inventory of all waste produced or recovered during a certain time period, classified by type and quantity (在某一时间段内产生或回收的所有废料库存，按类型和数量分类。) |
| 水分水量平衡循环 | hydrologic cycle |
| 水分水量平衡循环 | hydrologic balance |
| 水分不稳定的水分平衡 | hydrolabile water balance |
| 水文平衡 | hydrologic balance An accounting of the inflow to, outflow from, and storage in a hydrologic unit such as a drainage basin, aquifer, soil zone, lake or reservoir; the relationship between evaporation, precipitation, runoff, and the change in water storage (计算流域、含水层、土层、湖泊或水库这类水文系统中的流入量、流出量以及储水量；包括蒸发、降水、迳流以及储水量变化之间的关系。) |
| 物质平衡 | balance of matter A calculation to inventory material inputs versus outputs in a process system (在一个处理系统中，清单所列物质输入与输出的计算。) |
| 环境平衡 | environmental balance Final part of the environmental impact study and assessment which compares environmental costs and benefits on the basis of homogeneous criteria (在相同的基准上，比较环境的成本和效益后对环境影响的研究和评估。) |
| 生态平衡 | ecological balance The condition of equilibrium among the components of a natural community such that their relative numbers remain fairly constant and their ecosystem is stable. Gradual readjustments to the composition of a balanced community take place continually in response to natural ecological succession and to alterations in climatic and other influences (自然群落中组成成分间的平衡状况，从而使得它们之间的相对数量基本上仍保持恒定，且生态系统是稳定的。 一个平衡的群落会逐步地、连续地重新调整其组成成分来响应自然生态的演替、季节更换和其他的影响。) |
| 生态平衡 | eco-balance An eco-balance refers to the consumption of energy and resources and the pollution caused by the production cycle of a given product. The product is followed throughout its entire life cycle, from the extraction of the raw materials, manufacturing and use, right through to recycling and final handling of waste (生态平衡指的是能量和资源的消耗及特定产品在其生产周期中产生的污染。整个产品的生命周期，从获取原料、生产和使用，一直到废弃物的回收和最终处置的过程均被追踪。) |
| 生物水平衡 | biological water balance The amount of ingoing and outgoing water in a system, which are assumed to be equal in the long term so that the water budget will balance (在一个系统中水的出入量，这是假设在长期情况下，出入量相等，从而使得水的预算平衡。) |
| 营养平衡 | nutrient balance Condition in which there is equilibrium between intake and excretion of nutrients (营养素摄入量和排泄的平衡。) |
