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non-renewable resource
Resource that is concentrated or formed at a rate very much slower than its rate of consumption and thus, for all practical purposes, is non-renewable. Compare renewable resource.
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...‐renewable resource ( depletable resource , stock resource ) A natural resource (such as oil ) which cannot be replaced when it is used up. Contrast renewable resource...
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A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
...-renewable resource ( finite resource ) A resource that is concentrated or formed at a rate very much slower than its rate of consumption. Compare renewable resource...
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A Dictionary of Geography (6 ed.)
...-renewable resource A finite mass of material which cannot be restored after use, such as natural gas. (S. Barr and P. Chaplin (2004) argue that cultural heritage is a non-renewable resource.) Each non-renewable resource has a theoretical depletion time—a ratio of its stock and rate of use. Non-renewable resources may be sustained by recycling...
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A Dictionary of Geology and Earth Sciences (5 ed.)
...-renewable resource ( finite resource ) Resource that is concentrated or formed at a rate very much slower than its rate of consumption and thus, for all practical purposes, is nonrenewable. Compare renewable resource...
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
... depletion Using a non‐renewable resource and/or using a renewable resource faster than it can naturally be...
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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences (4 ed.)
...resource ( non-renewable resource ) A resource that is concentrated or formed at a rate very much slower than its rate of consumption and so, for all practical purposes, is non-renewable. Compare renewable resource...
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A Dictionary of Ecology (5 ed.)
...resource ( non-renewable resource ) A resource that is concentrated or formed at a rate very much slower than its rate of consumption and so, for all practical purposes, is non-renewable. Compare renewable resource...
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...depletion The use of 80% or more of a non‐renewable resource...
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...time The time it takes to use up a non‐renewable resource...
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A Dictionary of Construction, Surveying and Civil Engineering (2 ed.)
...resource ( non-renewable resource ) A resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient or sustainable rate for economic extraction. For example, fossil fuels (such as coal and oil) are a finite resource, whereas, wind or solar power is from a renewable resource...
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...resource Any non‐renewable resource (such as minerals , non‐mineral resources, and fossil fuels ) that are present in fixed amounts in the environment . Over-exploitation of a renewable resource may convert it to an exhaustible resource...
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A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (3 ed.)
...resource ( environmental resource , intrinsic resource ) Any feature of the natural environment that is of value in meeting human needs , including renewable resources (e.g. vegetation, water, soil, and wildlife) and non‐renewable resources (e.g. oil, natural gas, coal, and iron...
