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| Terms for subject Environment (5171 entries) |
| incidental pollution (Pollution caused by oil spills, by the accidental release of radioactive substances, by the immission in water bodies or in the atmosphere of chemical substances deriving from industrial activities) | tilfeldig forurensning | |
| incineration (Controlled process by which solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible wastes are burned and changed into gases; residue produced contains little or no combustible material) | forbrenning | |
| incineration of waste (The controlled burning of solid, liquid, or gaseous combustible wastes to produce gases and solid residues containing little or no combustible material in order to reduce the bulk of the original waste materials) | avfallsforbrenning | |
| incineration residue (Any material, solid or semisolid, left after processing in a device designed to reduce waste volume by combustion) | forbrenningsrest | |
| incinerator (Device which burns waste) | forbrenningsanlegg | |
| income (The gain derived from capital, from labour or effort, or both combined, including profit or gain through sale or conversion of capital) | inntekt | |
| income tax (A tax on the annual profits arising from property, business pursuits, professions, trades or offices) | inntektsskatt | |
| incorporation (No definition needed) | inkorporering | |
| indefinite legal concept (A condition or extent of time in a government enforced contract, instrument or agreement that lacks precision, distinguishing characteristics or fixed boundaries) | udefinert juridisk begrep | |
| indemnity (Financial compensation, reimbursement or security for damages or loss offered by a government, insurance policy or contractual agreement under specified conditions and for specific casualties) | skadeserstatning | |
| index (A list of record surrogates arranged in order of some attribute expressible in machine-orderable form) | indeks | |
| indexing of documentation (A service which creates a special contents list, containing titles, authors, abstracts, subject headings and other information, to describe a large number of publications and to be used in searchable, machine-readable (or printed) look-up tables) | indeksering av dokumentasjon | |
| Indian Ocean (A body of water between the continents of Africa, Antarctica, Asia and Australia including the Bay of Bengal in the east and the Arabian Sea (with the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Persian Gulf) in the west, and containing several islands and island chains, such as the Andaman, Nicobar and Seychelles) | Indiahavet | |
| indicator (Something that provides an indication especially of trends) | indikator | |
| indicator of environmental management | miljøindikator | |
| indicator of environmental quality (Qualitative or quantitative parameter used as a measure of an environmental condition, e.g. of air or water quality) | indikator for miljøkvalitet | |
| indigenous forest (Forests which are native to a given area) | naturskog | |
| indigenous knowledge (Local knowledge that is unique to a given culture or society, which is the basis for local-level decision making in agriculture, health care, education and other matters of concern in rural communities) | antatt kunnskap | |
| indigenous technology (Technologies employed by the native inhabitants of a country and which constitute an important part of its cultural heritage and should therefore be protected against exploitation by industrialized countries; the problem of indigenous knowledge has been discussed during the Rio Conference but it does not receive much protection under the Biodiversity Convention. Article 8 mandates that parties "respect, preserve and maintain knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities embodying traditional life styles... and promote their wider application with the approval and involvement of holders of such knowledge, innovations and practices and encourage the equitable sharing of benefits arising from them") | lokal teknologi | |
| indirect discharger (A non-domestic source introducing pollutants into a publicly owned waste-treatment system. Indirect dischargers can be commercial or industrial facilities whose wastes enter local sewers) | indirekte induser |