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Incineration

Incineration. The process of burning waste materials to reduce volume and mass, sometimes to generate electricity or heat Application: Form of waste management. Indicator Species. A species that indicated whether or not disease-causing pathogens are likely to be present Application:

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Incineration

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  1. Incineration The process of burning waste materials to reduce volume and mass, sometimes to generate electricity or heat Application: Form of waste management.

  2. Indicator Species A species that indicated whether or not disease-causing pathogens are likely to be present Application: Used to prevent spread of infectious diseases

  3. Individual Transferable Quota A fishery management program in which individual fisheries are given a total allowable catch of fish in a season that they can either catch or sell Application: A program put in place in order to prevent fishery collapse and promote more sustainable fishing

  4. Induced Demand The phenomenon in which increase in the supply of a good causes demand to grow Application: One of the effects of urban sprawl.

  5. Inductive Reasoning The process of making general statements from specific facts or examples Application: Skill used in the scientific method of interpreting results.

  6. Industrial Agriculture Agriculture that applies the techniques of mechanization and standardization Application: A form of agriculture widely used today.

  7. Infant Mortality Rate The number of deaths of children under 1 year of age per 1,000 live births Application: A factor used to calculate the average life expectancy of a country

  8. Infectious Disease A disease caused by a pathogen Application: A type of disease

  9. Infill Development that fills in vacant lots within existing communities Application: A strategy used to promote and encourage development of sustainable, healthy communities in cities.

  10. Innocent-until-proven-guilty Principle A principle based on the philosophy that a potential hazard should not be considered an actual hazard until the scientific data definitively demonstrate that it actually causes harm Application: One of two different philosophies for managing risk

  11. Picture Citations • Incineration • pollutionissues.com • Indicator Species • ecy.wa.gov • ITQ • convergence.ucsb.edu • Induced Demand • theurbancountry.com • Inductive Reasoning • experiment-resources.com • Industrial Agriculture • fourgreensteps.com • Infant Mortality Rate • labortrials.wordpress.com • Infectious Disease • metrohealth.org • Infill • urbfill.com • Innocent Until Proven Guilty Principle • sustainablescientist.net

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