In groundwater-resource assessments, terms such as sustainability, sustainable yield, sustainable pumping, sustainable development, and safe yield are often used interchangeably or with little distinction between the concepts.
She said most of the stocks would be limited to their maximum sustainable yield, determined on scientific advice, by 2015.
Specifically, optimal or sustainable groundwater-resource use requires setting upper limits on water withdrawal (or sustainable yield) to avoid compromising the source [11].
The limiting factors may include the sustainable yield of the aquifer, groundwater temperature and chemical composition.
The intent is to limit catches to the maximum sustainable yield (MSY), ban vessels from discarding dead fish, and institute other reforms aimed at protecting fish stocks, marine ecosystems, and the financial viability of fishing fleets.
Governance in fisheries is required to involve stakeholder participation and to be more inclusive in its remit, which is no longer limited to ensuring a maximum sustainable yield from a single stock but considers species and habitat interactions, as well as social and economic issues.
Three species exceeded a limit reference point analogous to maximum sustainable yield, and another 10 species were also considered as high risk even though they were below the sustainability reference point, because of uncertainty in parameters (see [140] for more details).
Under the revamped rules, starting in 2015 regulators would set catch limits using a data-driven standard known as maximum sustainable yield (MSY).
Sustainability is at the core of concepts such as sustainable yield, sustainable society, and sustainable development.
Thus, the limits on aquifer pumping as a percentage of groundwater recharge range can be computed for the sustainable yield.
