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| Terms for subject Environment (5171 entries) |
| detection (The act or process of discovering evidence or proof of governmental, legal or ethical violations) | påvisning | |
| detector (A mechanical, electrical, or chemical device that automatically identifies and records or registers a stimulus, such as an environmental change in pressure or temperature, an electrical signal, or radiation from a radioactive material) | detektor | |
| detergent (A surface-active agent used for removing dirt and grease from a variety of surfaces and materials. Early detergents contained alkyl sulphonates, which proved resistant to bacterial decomposition, causing foaming in rivers and difficulties in sewage treatment plants. These hard detergents were replaced during the 1960s with soft biodegradable detergents. Apprehension continues to be expressed about the use of phosphates in detergents, helping to promote the process of eutrophication. No satisfactory substitute has yet emerged) | rensemiddel | |
| determination method (Method employed in the assessment or in the evaluation of a quantity, a quality, a fact, an event, etc.) | bestemmelsesmetode | |
| deterrence (Punishment aiming at deterring the criminal from repeating his offences or deterring others from committing similar acts) | avskrekking | |
| deterrent (Any measure, implement or policy designed to discourage or restrain the actions or advance of another agent, organization or state) | avskrekkingsmiddel | |
| detoxification (The act or process of removing a poison or the toxic properties of a substance in the body) | avgiftning | |
| developed country (A nation possessing a relatively high degree of industrialization, infrastructure and other capital investment, sophisticated technology, widespread literacy and advanced living standards among its populations as a whole) | utviklet land | |
| developing countries debt | u-landsgjeld | |
| developing country (A country whose people are beginning to utilize available resources in order to bring about a sustained increase in per capita production of goods and services) | utviklingsland | |
| development aid (The economic assistance or other types of support provided to developing countries to promote or encourage advancement in living standards, institutions, infrastructure, agricultural practices and other aspects of an economy, and to resolve problems typically associated with developing countries) | utviklingshjelp | |
| development area (Area which has been given special help from a government to encourage business and factories to be set up there) | utviklingsområde | |
| development co-operation | utviklingssamarbeid | |
| development model (A description, representation, or conception of the economic advancement process of a region or people) | utviklingsmodell | |
| development pattern (The combination of qualities, structures, acts and tendencies characterizing the economic and social growth of a community or human group) | utviklingsmønster | |
| development plan (The statement of local planning policies that each local planning authority is required by statute to maintain, and which can only be made or altered by following the procedures prescribed for that purpose, which include obligations to consult widely and to hold a public local inquiry into objections. The development plan includes: 1. the structure plan for the area (normally prepared by the country council); 2. an area-wide development plan for each district council area) | utviklingsplan | |
| development planning (The act or process of formulating a course of action that promotes the economic advancement of a region or people, particularly in countries known to have low levels of economic productivity and technological sophistication) | utviklinsplanlegging | |
| devolution (The act of assigning or entrusting authority, powers or functions to another as deputy or agent, typically to a subordinate in the administrative structure of an organization or institution) | desentralisering av makt | |
| dialysis (A process of selective diffusion through a membrane; usually used to separate low-molecular-weight solutes which diffuse through the membrane from the colloidal and high-molecular-weight solutes which do not) | dialyse | |
| diatom (Unicellular algae, some of which are colonial, green or brownish in colour (but all contain chlorophyll) and with siliceous and often highly sculptured cell walls. Diatoms make up much of the producer level in marine and freshwater food chains, and they have contributed to the formation of oil reserves. Deposits of diatomaceous earths were formed by the accumulation of diatom cell walls) | kiselalge |