Term

critical load

Term

(1) Carrying capacity is the ability of eco-systems/the earth to bear environmental load without significant damage. The threshold is the critical load. (2) The maximum load that a given system can tolerate before failing.

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EEA Glossary

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Definition source publication

1) EEA. 1999. Making sustainability accountable: Eco-efficiency, resource productivity and innovation. Topic report No 11/1999. 2) ETC/CDS. General Environmental Multilingual Thesaurus (GEMET 2000)

Publication year

1999

Definition source URL

http://glossary.eea.europa.eu/EEAGlossary

Organisation

1) EEA

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