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sustainable fisherySome primary concerns around sustainability are that heavy fishing pressures, such as overexploitation and growth or recruitment overfishing, will result in the loss of significant potential yield; that stock structure will erode to the point where it loses diversity and resilience to environmental fluctuations; that ecosystems and their economic infrastructures will cycle between collapse and recovery; with each cycle less productive than its predecessor; and that changes will occur in the trophic balance (fishing down marine food webs).Hilborn, Ray "Are Sustainable Fisheries Achievable?"
ecosystem managementan approach to natural resource management that aims to ensure the long-term sustainability and persistence of an ecosystem's function and services while meeting socioeconomic, political, and cultural needs.
sustainable developmentnoun(agriculture, ecology) Development which seeks to produce sustainable economic growth while ensuring future generations' ability to do the same by not exceeding the regenerative capacity of nature.
environmental impact of fishingThe environmental impact of fishing includes issues such as the availability of fish, overfishing, fisheries, and fisheries management; as well as the impact of industrial fishing on other elements of the environment, such as bycatch.
catch per unit effortIn fisheries and conservation biology, the catch per unit effort is an indirect measure of the abundance of a target species.
habitat conservationa management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore habitats and prevent species extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range.
natural resource managementthe management of natural resources such as land, water, soil, plants and animals, with a particular focus on how management affects the quality of life for both present and future generations (stewardship).
sustainable food systemA sustainable food system is a type of food system that provides healthy food to people and creates sustainable environmental, economic, and social systems that surround food.
sustainable managementSustainable management takes the concepts from sustainability and synthesizes them with the concepts of management.
conservation biologynoun(biology) The scientific study of the state of Earth's biodiversity with the objective to protect it from becoming extinct.
sustainable agriculturefarming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs.
sustainabilitynoun(ecology) A means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society, its members and its economies are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving biodiversity and natural ecosystems, planning and acting for the ability to maintain these necessary resources for future generations.
environmental educationEnvironmental education refers to organized efforts to teach how natural environments function, and particularly, how human beings can manage behavior and ecosystems to live sustainably.
maximum sustainable yieldIn population ecology and economics, maximum sustainable yield is theoretically, the largest yield (or catch) that can be taken from a species' stock over an indefinite period.
environmental planningthe process of facilitating decision making to carry out land development with the consideration given to the natural environment, social, political, economic and governance factors and provides a holistic framework to achieve sustainable outcomes.
sustainable procurementSustainable procurement or green procurement is a process whereby organizations meet their needs for goods, services, works and utilities in a way that achieves value for money on a life-cycle basis while addressing equity principles for sustainable development, therefore benefiting societies and the environment across time and geographies.
landscape ecologythe science of studying and improving relationships between ecological processes in the environment and particular ecosystems.
sustainability measurementa set of frameworks or indicators used to measure how sustainable something is.
convergencenounThe act of moving toward union or uniformity.
strategic environmental assessmenta systematic decision support process aiming to ensure that environmental and possibly other sustainability aspects are considered effectively in policy, plan, and program making.

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