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Amount of land and water that is required to support a human population at a given standard of living providing all the resources and assimilating all the waste. |
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| Number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation. |
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| Millennium Ecosystem Assessment |
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A plan to evaluate consequences of ecosystem change for human well-being and the scientific basis for action needed to enhance the conservation and sustainable use of those systems and their contribution to human well-being.. |
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| Resources from nature that produce sustainable natural income of goods and services. |
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The yield from natural capital. |
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| Living organisms, land, air, water, and earth's biosphere |
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| Includes goods such as wood that we get from trees and serves such as trees protecting land from soil erosion. |
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| Management of resources that allows for replacement and full recovery of natural elements within an ecosystems. |
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| Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) |
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Baseline process of evaluating the likely environmental impacts of a proposed project or development, taking into account inter-related socio-economic, cultural and human-health impacts, both beneficial and adverse.
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| Resources that are not capable of being prolonged or continued. |
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| A stage that involves deciding if an EIA is needed and which impacts need to be considered. |
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A step in the (EIA) process involving identifying impacts and predicting the scale of potential impacts.
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| A stage in the (EIA) process involving limiting the effects of impacts to acceptable limits. |
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| (SDG)Sustainable development goals |
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| Collection of 17 interlinked global goals set up in 2015 by the United Nations General Assembly that were designed to be a "blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. |
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| Maximum amount of a given biologically productive area to generate an on-going supply of renewable resources and to absorb its spillover wastes. |
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| Renewable natural capital |
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Resources that can be used over and over again. Living species and ecosystems that can be replaced by natural productivity. Self-producing and self-maintaining and uses solar energy for photosynthesis.
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| Calculating Total Economic Value |
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| Total income value involving use and nonuse value that include direct, indirect, option, bequest, and existence value of resources. |
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| Value types of ecosystem services |
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| Economic, ecological, aesthetic, intrinsic, scientific /technological. |
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