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| Terms for subject Environment (5576 entries) |
| restriction on use (A limitation on the utilization of land or some other property, often inscribed in a deed or lease document) | bruksbegrensning | |
| restrictive trade practice (Business operation or action that confines or limits the free exchange of goods and services within a country or between countries, which may include discrimination, exclusive dealings, collusion agreements or price fixing) | konkurransebegrensning | |
| retail trade (The sale of goods to ultimate consumers, usually in small quantities) | detaljhandel | |
| retaining reservoir (Basin used to hold water in storage) | oppdemmingsmagasin | |
| retarding basin (A basin designed and operated to provide temporary storage and thus reduce the peak flood flows of a stream) | reguleringsbasseng | |
| retrofitting (1. Addition of a pollution control device on an existing facility without making major changes to the generating plant. 2. Providing a jet, an automobile, a computer, or a factory, for example, with parts, devices or equipment not in existence or available at the time of original manufacture) | oppgradering | |
| retrofitting of old plants (Making changes to old industrial plants installing new equipment's and facilities for the disposal of gas emissions in the atmosphere, of waste water and waste material in soil and water) | regenerering av gammelt anlegg | |
| return to nature | tilbake til naturen | |
| returnable container (Container whose return from the consumer or final user is assured by specific means (separate collection, deposits, etc.), independently on its final destination, in order to be reused, recovered or subjected to specific waste management operations) | returbeholder | |
| reusable container (Any container which has been conceived and designed to accomplish within its life cycle a minimum number of trips or rotations in order to be refilled or reused for the same purpose for which it was conceived) | gjenbruksbeholder | |
| reuse of materials (Any re-utilization of products or components, in original form, such as when used glass bottles are sterilized and refilled for resale) | gjenbruk av materialer | |
| revegetation (Planting of new trees and, particularly, of native plants in disturbed sites where the vegetation cover has been destroyed, to stabilize the land surface from wind and water erosion and to reclame the land for other uses. Revegetation practices are employed in mined lands, roadsides, parks, wetlands, utility corridors, riparian areas, etc.) | revegetasjon | |
| reverse osmosis (A method of obtaining pure water from water containing a salt, as in desalination. Pure water and the salt water are separated by a semipermeable membrane and the pressure of the salt water is raised above the osmotic pressure, causing water from the brine to pass through the membrane into the pure water. This process requires a pressure of some 25 atmospheres, which makes it difficult to apply on a large scale) | omvendt osmose | |
| rice (An erect grass, Oryza sativa, that grows in East Asia on wet ground and has drooping flower spikes and yellow oblong edible grains that become white when polished) | ris | |
| right of access | tilkomstrett | |
| right of property (The legal guarantee or just claim inhering in a citizen's relation to some physical thing, but especially a plot of land, including the right to possess, use and dispose of it) | eiendomsrett | |
| right to compensation (A legally enforceable claim for payment or reimbursement to pay for damages, loss or injury, or for remuneration to pay for services rendered, whether in fees, commissions or salary) | rett til erstatning | |
| right to information (The individual's right to know in general about the existence of data banks, the right to be informed on request and the general right to a print-out of the information registered and to know the actual use made of the information) | informasjonsrettighet | |
| rights (1. Title to or an interest in any property. 2. Any interest or privilege recognized and protected by law) | rettighet | |
| rights of future generations (The moral, legal or ethical claims of posterity on present people, based on the recognition that the young and unborn are vulnerable to contemporary decision-making, especially decisions having long-term effect on the societies and environment they inherit) | fremtidige generasjoners rettigheter |