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Data and Resources
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Ias invasive alien species
Invasive alien species are plants, animals, pathogens and other organisms...
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Ice cap
A dome-shaped ice mass covering a highland area that is considerably smaller...
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Ignition component
A rating of the probability that a firebrand will cause an actionable fire.
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Imhoff tank
Two-stage wastewater treatment tank combining sedimentation of settleable...
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Impact category
Class representing environmental issues of concern to which life cycle...
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Impact category indicator
A quantifiable representation of the contribution of a product unit to the...
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Impoundment
An artificial body of water.
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Improved drinking water
“Improved” sources of drinking water include piped water into dwellings;...
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Improved sanitation
“Improved” sanitation includes flush lavatories; piped sewer systems; septic...
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In vitro
(of a process) performed or taking place in a test tube, culture dish, or...
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Incendiary fire
A wildfire willfully set by anyone to burn, or spread to, vegetation or...
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Incremental cost principle
Since 1991, the Global Environment Facility (GEF) a multilateral organization...
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Incrementality
Funding principle according to which funded activities produce global...
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Indirect use value
The benefit that people derive indirectly from services such as watershed...
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Indirect value
The value derived from services from biodiversity (ecosystem services) that...
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Inertia
The delay, slowness, or resistance in the response of the climate,...
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Inertial forces
Any force invoked by an observer to maintain the validity of Isaac Newton’s...
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Infectivity
In epidemiology, infectivity is the ability of a pathogen to enter, survive...
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Infiltration rate
The volume of water entering a specified cross-sectional area of soil per...
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
An umbrella term for two disorders that involve chronic inflammation of the...
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Infrastructure
The basic equipment, utilities, productive enterprises, installations, and...
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Inland waters
The term "inland waters" is used to refer to lakes, rivers, brooks, streams,...
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Innovation landscape
The entirety of the activities of innovation from research and development to...
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Institutions
Regularized patterns of interaction by which society organizes itself: the...
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Integrated assessment models
Models that seek to combine knowledge from multiple disciplines in the form...
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Integrated coastal management
A dynamic process by which actions are taken for the use, development and...
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Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM)
Approaches that integrate economic, social and ecological perspectives for...
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Integrated water resources management (IWRM)
A process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water,...
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Integrated watershed management
A framework to integrate natural resource management with community...
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Intended nationally determined contribution (INDC)
INDCs are submissions from countries describing the national actions it...
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Intermediary cities
Cities that generally play a primary role in connecting important rural and...
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Intermittent terrace
These are bench terraces in which only one terrace out of three is...
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Internal renewable water resources
It refers to long-term average annual flow of rivers and recharge of aquifers...
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Intersectionality
The understanding that social roles and identities overlap and have...
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Intertidal
That portion of the sea bottom between high and low tide lines. Chart Datum...
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Introduced species
A species, subspecies or lower taxon [of trees] occurring outside its natural...
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Invasive species
Introduced species that have spread beyond their area of introduction (and,...
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Irragric horizon
Uniformly structured, at least moderate content of organic matter, high...
Additional Info
| Field | Value |
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| Source | https://wesr-staging.azurewebsites.net/glossary/ajax/ajax.searchbyindex.php?q=I |
| Author | UNEP GEO |
| Maintainer | UNEP GEO |
| Last Updated | January 26, 2023, 06:30 (UTC) |
| Created | September 13, 2022, 18:25 (UTC) |
| GUID | unep-geo-glossary-letter-i |
| Issued | 2022-08-31 13:51:51 |
| Language | en |
| Modified | 2022-11-09 17:41:18 |
| Publisher name | UNEP GEO |
| Theme | Glossary |
| data_type | webpage |
| spatial | Global |