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| Terms for subject Environment (5171 entries) |
| forbrukervern | consumer protection (Information disseminated or measures and programs established to prevent and reduce damage, injury or loss to users of specific commodities and services) | |
| forbruksmønster | consumption pattern (The combination of qualities, quantities, acts and tendencies characterizing a community or human group's use of resources for survival, comfort and enjoyment) | |
| forbruksvann | water for consumption (Consumptive water use starts with withdrawal, but in this case without any return, e.g. irrigation, steam escaping into the atmosphere, water contained in final products, i.e. it is no longer available directly for subsequent use) | |
| forbruksvare | consumer goods (Manufactured products intended primarily for personal use by individuals or families and classified as either durables or non-durables, depending on length of use) | |
| forbud | prohibition (An interdiction or forbidding of an activity or action by authority or law) | |
| forbundsregjering | federal government (A system in which a country or nation formed by a union or confederation of independent states is governed by a central authority or organization) | |
| fordampning | evaporation (Conversion from a liquid or solid state to a vapour) | |
| fordeling | distribution (In an environmental context, the term refers to the dispersion of air pollutants and depends on the type of pollution source (point source, line source, diffuse source), the wind velocity and the wind direction. Distribution can be active or passive) | |
| fordeling av forurensende stoff | pollutant distribution (Arrangement, or pattern, associated with the occurrence of pollutants over a geographical area) | |
| føre-var-prinsipp | 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) | |
| forebyggende helsetiltak | preventive health measure | |
| forebyggende informasjon | preventive information (Data communicated or received concerning the recommended means of averting risk of an accident, disaster or other undesirable and avoidable incident) | |
| forebygging av miljøbelastning | impact prevention (Precautionary measures, actions or installations implemented to avert negative effects on the environment) | |
| forebygging av røykutslipp | smoke prevention | |
| forebygging av skogbrann | prevention of forest fires (Precautionary actions, measures or installations implemented to avert the possibility of an unexpected conflagration of any large wooded area having a thick growth of trees and plants) | |
| forebyggingstiltak | prevention measure (Measures taken in advance to prevent the occurrence of disasters or similar emergencies) | |
| foreldelse | prescription statutory limitation | |
| forening | association (A body of persons associated for the regulation of a common economic activity by means of a special organization) | |
| forgassing | gasification (1. Any chemical or heat process used to convert a substance to a gas. 2. The production of gaseous fuels by reacting hot carbonaceous materials with air, steam or oxygen. The process takes place at high temperature. The gasification product is a mixture of combustible gases and tar compounds, together with particles and water vapour. Depending on the gasification method, the proportion of components varies, but common to all the processes is that the gas has to be purified before it can be used directly in a gas engine or a gas turbine) | |
| forgiftning | poisoning (The morbid condition produced by a poison which may be swallowed, inhaled, injected, or absorbed through the skin) |