Terms for subject Environment (24829 entries) |
Vorort | suburb (A residential district situated on the outskirts of a city or town) | |
Vorprodukt | precursor | |
vorrangiger Abfallstrom | priority waste stream | |
vorrangiger Bereich | priority area | |
Vorrat | stock (trade) | |
Vorratsbehälter | bag | |
Vorreinigungseinrichtung | pollution abatement facilities | |
Vorrichtung für Zündung aus der Luft | aerial ignition device | |
Vorrichtung zur ständigen Probenahme von atmosphaerischen Stäuben auf einem Festfilter | device equipped with a fixed filter for the continuous sampling of airborne (atmospheric) dust | |
Vorrichtungen für die Zufuhr von Abfällen | waste supply systems | |
Vorsätzliche Verschmutzung | deliberate pollution | |
Vorschrift | prescription (Acquisition of a personal right to use a way, water, light and air by reason of continuous usage. Prescription is a peremptory and perpetual bar to every species of action, real or personal, when creditor has been silent for a certain time without urging his claim) | |
Vorschriften über Rückstände | legislation on residues | |
Vorsorgekonzept | precautionary approach | |
Vorsorgemassnahmen | preventive measures | |
Vorsorgeprinzip | cause for concern principle | |
Vorsorgeprinzip | cause for concern principle (Principle connected with the precautionary principle: it means that, if there are strong reasons for expecting serious or irreversible damage to the environment following a given project, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation. Critics of this approach are concerned about large commitments of resources to deal with vaguely defined problems) | |
Vorsorgeprinzip | precautionary principle (Principle adopted by the UN Conference on Environment and Development (1992) that in order to protect the environment, a precautionary approach should be widely applied, meaning that where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage to the environment, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation) | |
Vorsorgeprinzip | pro-active approach | |
Vorsteppe | pre-steppe brush |