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The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation

Glossary term

Trade-off

A situation in which gains in one sector’s objective, such as more irrigation for food, impose costs on another, such as less water for hydropower or ecosystems.

A situation in which gains in one sector’s objective, such as more irrigation for food, impose costs on another, such as less water for hydropower or ecosystems.

Institution GCRI