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| Terms for subject Environment (5171 entries) |
| 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 | |
| individual wastewater treatment (The process of using a natural system or mechanical device to collect, treat and discharge or reclaim wastewater from an individual dwelling without the use of community-wide sewers or a centralised treatment facility) | individuell avløpsvannbehandling | |
| indoor air pollution (Chemical, physical or biological contaminants in the air inside buildings and other enclosed spaces occupied by humans. This pollution can arise from tobacco smoke, pesticides, cleaning agents, gases released from building materials, rugs, household products, etc.) | forurensning av inneluft | |
| indoor environment (Environment situated in the inside of a house or other building) | inneklima | |
| industrial activity (Operations, functions and processes involved in industrial production) | industriell aktivitet | |
| industrial area (Areas allocated for industry within a town-planning scheme or environmental plan. The range of industries accommodated in a plan may include: light industry, service industry, general industry, hazardous, noxious or offensive industry, waterfront industry, extractive industry. Standards are usually defined for industrial areas relating to access and roads, drainage, car parking, aesthetics, landscaping, buffer zones, noise levels, and air and water pollution) | industriområde | |
| industrial association | industriforbund | |
| industrial building (A building directly used in manufacturing or technically productive enterprises. Industrial buildings are not generally or typically accessible to other than workers. Industrial buildings include buildings used directly in the production of power, the manufacture of products, the mining of raw materials, and the storage of textiles, petroleum products, wood and paper products, chemicals, plastics, and metals) | industribygning | |
| industrial crop (Any crop that provides materials for industrial processes and products such as soybeans, cotton (lint and seed), flax, and tobacco) | industriplante |