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Safe ecological limits

  • Glossary item | 01 Sep 2021
Biodiversity Knowledge Centre

Enhance the knowledge on the bioeconomy, including on biodiversity and ecosystems, to deploy it within safe ecological limits and make it accessible through the Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy.
Provide voluntary guidance to operate the bioeconomy within safe ecological limits.

Source: EURO-Lex

(safe minimum standard): a restriction (taboo, prohibition, harvesting season) which limits the use of resources to levels that are thought to be safe, e.g. conservation of a sufficient area of habitat to ensure the continued provision of ecological functions and services, at the ecosystem level.

Source: EEA Glossary

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01 Sep 2021

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