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:

Used to prevent spread of infectious diseases

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

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.

Inductive Reasoning

The process of making general statements from specific facts or examples

Application:

Skill used in the scientific method of interpreting results.

Industrial Agriculture

Agriculture that applies the techniques of mechanization and standardization

Application:

A form of agriculture widely used today.

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

Infectious Disease

A disease caused by a pathogen

Application:

A type of disease

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.

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

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