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sustained yield

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Sustainable Urbanization
Sustainable Urbanization: How Green energy & mobility can help. Siemens
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sustained yield

 
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–noun
1. the continuing supply of a natural resource, as timber, through scheduled harvests to insure replacement by regrowth or reproduction.
2. the amount of a resource obtained from such a schedule without depleting the resource.
Related forms:
sustained-yield, adjective
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Sustainable Urbanization
Sustainable Urbanization: How Green energy & mobility can help. Siemens
www.siemens.com/SustainableCities
sus·tained yield   (sə-stānd')
n.  

  1. The continuing yield of a biological resource, such as timber from a forest, by controlled periodic harvesting.

  2. The quantity of a resource harvested in this manner.

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