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| Terms for subject Environment (5171 entries) |
| badevann | bathing water (All waters, inland or coastal, except those intended for therapeutic purposes or used in swimming pools, an area either in which bathing is explicitly authorised or in which bathing is not prohibited and is traditionally practised by a large number of bathers. Water in such areas must meet specified quality standards relating to chemical, microbiological and physical parameters) | |
| bæreevne | load bearing capacity (The maximum load that a system can support before failing) | |
| bærekapasitet til jord | land carrying capacity (The maximum extent to which ground or soil area may be exploited without degradation or depletion) | |
| bærekraftig bruk | sustainable use (Use of the environment and its living resources at a rate that does not exceed its capacity for renewal in order to ensure its availability for future generations) | |
| bærekraftig utvikling | sustainable development (Development that provides economic, social and environmental benefits in the long term having regard to the needs of living and future generations. Defined by the World Commission on Environment and Development in 1987 as: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs) | |
| bærekraftighetsprinsipp | principle of sustainability (Principle stated by the World Commission on Environment and Development (The Bruntland Commission) in 1987: development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations. Sustainable development is a process of integrating economic, social and ecological goals, and should not mean a trade-off between the environment and development. Sustainable development should imply balance rather than conflict) | |
| bakgrunnsnivå | background level (Term used in a variety of situations, always as the constant or natural amount of a given substance, radiation, noise, etc.) | |
| bakgrunnsstøy | background noise (Noise coming from source other than the noise source being monitored) | |
| bakgrunnsstråling | background radiation (Radiation resulting from natural sources, as opposed to man-made sources, and to which people are exposed in everyday, normal life; for example from rocks and soil) | |
| bakterie | bacterium (Group of single-cell micro-organisms, the smallest of the living organisms. Some are vital to sustain life, while others are responsible for causing highly dangerous human diseases, such as anthrax, tetanus and tuberculosis. Bacteria are found everywhere, in the soil, water and air) | |
| bakteriedrepende middel | bactericide (An agent that destroys bacteria) | |
| bakteriefilter | bacterial bed (A device that removes some suspended solids from sewage. Air and bacteria decompose additional wastes filtering through the sand so that cleaner water drains from the bed) | |
| bakteriologi | bacteriology (The science and study of bacteria) | |
| bakteriologisk forurensning | bacteriological pollution (Contamination of water, soil and air with pathogen bacteria) | |
| bankeforbygning | bank protection (Engineering work which aims at the protection of banks of a river, or slopes of embankments along it, from erosion by the current of flow, from floods, etc.) | |
| bankvirksomhet | banking (Transactional business between any bank, an institution for safeguarding, exchanging, receiving and lending money, and that bank's clients or customers) | |
| barium | barium (A soft silvery-white metallic element of the alkaline earth group. It is used in bearing alloys and compounds are used as pigments) | |
| barn | child (A person below the age of puberty) | |
| barnebegrensning | birth control (Limitation of the number of children born by preventing or reducing the frequency of impregnation) | |
| barnedødelighet | infant mortality (The rate of deaths occurring in the first year of life for a given population) |