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| Goods or services that are not manufactured but have value to humans |
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| Living resources that can replace or restock themselves- they can grow. |
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| Resources that exist in finite amounts on Earth and are not renewed or replaced after they have been used or delpleted (minerals and fossil fuels) |
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| Arguably middle grounds between renewable and non-renewable resources. These resources are replaceable, however they tend to be replaced over a time period that does not allow them to be viewed renewable. (Groundwater- can be used as a resource and depleted as it is used. Normally depletion rates are magnitudes larger than recharge rates; therefore the natural capital is depleted in the same was natural oil and gas are depleted (well run dry). |
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| Living within the means of nature, on the "interest" or sustainable natural income generated by natural capital. |
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| Dynamic nature of resource |
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| Importance of a resource varies over time. A resource avaliable in the past may not be a resource in the future. |
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Economic- having marketable goods or services, e.g. timber and food
Ecological- providing life-support services, e.g. water storage and gas exchange by forests
Scientific/technological- useful for applications, e.g. genetic, medicinal
Intrinsic- having cultural, esthetic, spiritual or philosophical |
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| the object is used more than once. Examples include resuse of soft drinks bottles (after cleaning) and secondhand cars. |
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| The object's material is used to make a new object of the same type. An example is the manufacturing of new plastic bottles from used ones |
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| the object;s material is used again to manufacture a new product. An example of this is the use of plastic bags to make plastic poles for gardens. |
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| Simply, using fewer resources, e.g. use less energy or less paper |
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| Area of land (and water) that would be required to sustainably provide all of a particular population's resources and assimilate all its wastes (rather than the population that a given area can sustainably support) |
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| Maximum load (rate of resource harvesting and waste generation) that can be sustained indefinitly without reducing productivity and functioning of ecosystems wherever those ecosystems are. |
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The product of natural capital.
(Just as capital yields income in terms of economics) |
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