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101Sustainable resource extraction — Describing the use of materials available in nature in a way that does not affect its balance. Usually however, sustainability is based on some kind of cost benefit analysis, where one has to accept some damage (or human caused unbalance) to the… …
102Sustainable Cities Report — On Monday 12 September 2005, the Australian House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Heritage tabled its report on the inquiry into [http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/environ/cities/report/fullreport.pdf Sustainable… …
103Sustainable Development Research Centre — The Sustainable Development Research Centre (SDRC) is a research centre based in Forres in the North of Scotland. It is an associate institute for sustainability research within the UHI Millennium Institute [ www.sustainableresearch.com… …
104sustainable yield — Catch that can be removed over an indefinite period without causing the stock to be depleted. This could be either a constant yield from year to year, or a yield which is allowed to fluctuate in response to changes in abundance; see… …
105sustainable yield — the yield (in weight or number) taken from a fish stock when it is in equilibrium with fishing of a given intensity, and (apart from effects of environmental variation) its biomass is not changing from one year to the next. Also called… …
106sustainable development — noun Development which seeks to produce sustainable economic growth while ensuring future generations ability to do the same by not exceeding the regenerative capacity of the nature. In other words, its trying to protect the environment …
107Sustainable Growth Rate - SGR — The maximum growth rate that a firm can sustain without having to increase financial leverage. Calculated as: ROE x (1 dividend payout ratio) The sustainable growth rate is a measure of how much a firm can grow without borrowing more money. After …
108sustainable resources — those resources which can be managed to provide an ongoing yield. Exploitation must not exceed renewal rates or they cease to be sustainable …
109sustainable — adj. Sustainable is used with these nouns: ↑agriculture, ↑architecture, ↑design, ↑development, ↑economy, ↑exploitation, ↑farming, ↑forestry, ↑future, ↑growth, ↑practice, ↑ …
110sustainable development — Development capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological damage. The term was first developed by the United Nations Commission on the Environment and Development 1987, in its… …
