Glossary E
Deutsch: Ausgaben / Español: gasto / Português: despesa / Français: dépense / Italiano: spesa
Expenditure in the environmental context refers to the allocation of financial resources towards activities, projects, or policies aimed at managing, preserving, or restoring the natural environment. This can include spending on pollution control, conservation initiatives, sustainable infrastructure development, and other environmental protection measures.
Deutsch: Kosten / Español: Gasto / Português: Despesa / Français: Dépense / Italiano: Spesa
Expense in the environment context refers to the financial costs associated with implementing, maintaining, and managing environmental initiatives, regulations, and technologies. This includes the costs incurred by governments, businesses, and individuals to comply with environmental regulations, adopt sustainable practices, and mitigate environmental impacts. Environmental expenses are crucial considerations in budgeting for projects that aim to reduce pollution, conserve resources, and protect ecosystems.
Experimental Design is the organized plan for a data collection activity. It details the specifics for conducting an experiment, such as which responses, factors, levels, blocks, treatments and tools are to be used.
Deutsch: Verfall / Español: Caducidad / Português: Expiração / Français: Expiration / Italiano: Scadenza
Expiration in the environmental context refers to the end of a product's or material's useful life, after which it is no longer effective, safe, or suitable for use. This term is often associated with the shelf life of chemical substances, food products, pharmaceuticals, and materials used in environmental applications. It can also pertain to permits, licenses, and agreements related to environmental activities that have a finite duration.
Español: Exhalación / Português: Expiração / Français: Souffle
Exhalation (or expiration) is the flow of the respiratory current out of the organism. In humans it is the movement of air out of the bronchial tubes, through the airways, to the external environment during breathing.
Deutsch: Belastung / Español: Exposición / Português: Exposição / Français: Exposition / Italiano: Esposizione /
An Exposure is coming into contact with a substance through inhalation, ingestion, or direct contact with the skin; may be acute or chronic
An exposure is a term relating to the amount of ionizing radiation that strikes a living or inanimate material. This is a general definition. In health physics, exposure is specifically defined as a measure of ionization in air caused by x-ray or gamma radiation only.