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A renewable resource (also known as a flow resource [note 1] [1]) is a natural resource which will replenish to replace the portion depleted by usage and consumption, either through natural reproduction or other recurring processes in a finite amount of time in a human time scale. When the recovery rate of resources is unlikely to ever exceed a ...
Natural resource economics is a transdisciplinary field of academic research within economics that aims to address the connections and interdependence between human economies and natural ecosystems. Its focus is how to operate an economy within the ecological constraints of earth's natural resources. [3] Resource economics brings together and ...
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood neurodevelopmental disorders. Left untreated, it can disrupt processing, understanding, and learning information ...
A Uniform Resource Name ( URN) is a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that uses the urn scheme. URNs are globally unique persistent identifiers assigned within defined namespaces so they will be available for a long period of time, even after the resource which they identify ceases to exist or becomes unavailable. [1]
Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water. 97% of the water on Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh water; slightly over two-thirds of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps.
Common-pool resource. In economics, a common-pool resource ( CPR) is a type of good consisting of a natural or human -made resource system (e.g. an irrigation system or fishing grounds), whose size or characteristics makes it costly, but not impossible, to exclude potential beneficiaries from obtaining benefits from its use.
Resource-based economy. Not to be confused with Post-scarcity economies. A resource-based or natural-resource-based economy is that of a country whose gross national product or gross domestic product to a large extent comes from natural resources. [1]
Tertiary source. A tertiary source is an index or textual consolidation of already published primary and secondary sources [1] that does not provide additional interpretations or analysis of the sources. [2] [3] Some tertiary sources can be used as an aid to find key (seminal) sources, key terms, general common knowledge [4] and established ...