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	Stabilization and Savings Funds for Nonrenewable Resources--IMF Occasional Paper No. 205
		The general justification for such funds is that some share of government revenues derived from the exploitation of a nonrenewable resource should be put aside for when these revenues decline, because the price of the resource has fallen, or the resource has been depleted or both.
		Countries that rely on oil and other nonrenewable resources for a substantial share of their revenue face two key problems: the revenue stream is uncertain and volatile, and the supply of the resource is exhaustible.
		Resources available to an NRF may be large, lending importance to the way its operations are integrated with the budget; the management of the assets; and to issues of governance, transparency, and accountability.
	www.imf.org /external/pubs/nft/op/205/index.htm (1542 words)

	Ecological Footprint
		Resources that are not "used up" such as minerals must be incorporated into the biological cycles before they are useful again for sustaining life.
		This appropriation of nonrenewable resources constitutes a part of our global footprint, and sometimes hoarding becomes hazardous by "reburying" some of it in abnormally high concentrations or chemical forms, such as radioactive materials.
		While we depend on a nonrenewable resource in the form of fossil fuel, we also return to the global system the raw material of photosynthesis, CO, at an accellerated rate, and cause "pollution" of the atmosphere.
	www.sbs.utexas.edu /resource/EF/pecofoot.htm (877 words)

	Boyes/Melvin Economics: Fundamental Questions
		Since the amount of a nonrenewable resource is fixed, the more that is used in the present, the less that is available in the future.
		Renewable resources are not fixed in quantity; however, they cannot be consumed too rapidly, or they won't be able to reproduce themselves.
		The role of the market for renewable resources is to determine a price at which the quantity of the resource used is just sufficient to enable the resource to renew itself at a rate that best satisfies society's wants.
	college.hmco.com /economics/boyes_melvin/fund/student/fq08.html (996 words)

	nonrenewable
		Nonrenewable resources are fossil fuels, metals, other minerals, and groundwater.
		If we were to use these resources at the rate at which nature replenishes them, they would be so valuable as to be priceless because of their scarcity.
		Even though they are not sustainable by nature, nonrenewable resources can be used in a somewhat sustainable way by using it at the rate at which a renewable resource, used sustainably, can be substituted for it.
	www.worldwise.com /nonrenewable.html (547 words)

	Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources Lesson
		Nonrenewable resource: resources that cannot be replaced once they are completely used.
		By using nonrenewable resources at the current rate, there will be nothing left for others to use.
		The use of nonrenewable resources can be lessened by developing new ways to utilize renewable resources as well as recycling, reducing, and reusing products that are made from nonrenewable resources.
	webpub.alleg.edu /dept/envisci/ESInfo/comps/anglebk/Page18.htm (1607 words)

	NonRenewable (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Land is an example of a nonrenewable resource.
		Unlike a renewable resource, a nonrenewable resource cannot be replaced as it is used up.
		The processes that have formed a nonrenewable resource, such as land, have for the most part been completed.
	members.tripod.com /~Science_Technician/nonrenewable.htm (289 words)

	Reference
		Thus, by "sustainability for nonrenewable resources" we mean the contribution of nonrenewable resources to the capacity of the EES System to continue to meet human needs and wants over many generations.
		Use of nonrenewable resources is not necessarily synonymous with extraction and disposal.
		Sustainable use of nonrenewable resources, at whatever level society requires to satisfy its economic and social needs, is theoretically possible as long as there are no unsustainable losses to environmental sinks.
	www.mines.unr.edu /smr/d5.html (7973 words)

	Environmental issues of forages - Define the terms renewable resource and nonrenewable and give examples of each ...
		Renewable resources may be defined as resources that have the potential to be replaced over time by natural processes.
		Nonrenewable resources may be defined as resources whose stock or reserves is limited or fixed.
		The realization of this dependence on nonrenewable resources has led to increased interest in developing and implementing so called sustainable agricultural production systems, as will be discussed in other sections of this lecture topic.
	forages.oregonstate.edu /nfgc/topics.cfm?ID=273 (480 words)

	Renewable or Nonrenewable? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		How we protect and manage natural resources often depends on what type of resource they are.
		Renewable resources are those that are replaced in nature at a rate close to their rate of use.
		Nonrenewable resources exist in fixed amounts or are used up faster than they can be replaced in nature.
	www.classzone.com /books/earth_science/terc/content/investigations/es0705/es0705page02.cfm (123 words)

	NCPA - Brief Analysis 422, Making Sense of Sustainable Development
		It is by definition impossible to use a nonrenewable resource sustainably; each unit of a nonrenewable resource used is one less unit from a finite pool.
		But it does not follow that such resources need to be conserved to any particular degree to sustain development, or even that exhausting those resources entirely will impinge on the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
		A planner in 1900, worried about the resource needs of the year 2000, would have taken care to secure supplies of whale oil and firewood for heating and lighting, copper for telegraph wires, rock salt for refrigeration, horses for transportation, and vast expanses of land to grow feedstock for draft animals.
	www.ncpa.org /pub/ba/ba422 (1303 words)

	Microeconomics - Chapter 18
		Nonrenewable resources (also known as exhaustible resources) have a finite supply that is depleted as the resource is consumed.
		As with any other commodity, the equilibrium price and quantity for a nonrenewable resource is determined by the interaction of demand and supply.
		As the supply of the resource is depleted over time, the cost of extracting the resource will rise (since the lowest cost sources will be used first) and the supply curve will shift to the left.
	www.oswego.edu /~economic/eco101/chap18/chap18.htm (603 words)

	Reference
		We need to sustain that resource only within the expected time frame in which it will be needed (with a safe margin for error if that time frame is unclear).
		Other nonrenewable energy resources (e.g., natural gas) are often viewed as having finite periods of need: natural gas is often referred to as a Atransition fuel@ for the next 50 (?) years until renewable energy sources (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) can be established, and natural gas goes the way of whale oil.
		What's relevant is that "what we mean by sustainability" is not something about the resources by themselves, but a characteristic or condition of the overall system of which the resources are a part.
	www.mines.unr.edu /smr/d7.html (2667 words)

	Energy and How We Use It (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Renewable resources are those that can be used or made over and over again from other resources—they are unlimited.
		Nonrenewable resources cannot be created over again and our supply of them is limited; once they run out, the resource is gone forever.
		Coal is an example of a nonrenewable resource because there is only so much of it on earth.
	www.rmi.org /sitepages/pid479.php (956 words)

	Nonrenewable Resources
		Mining is sometimes referred to as the extractive industries; on other occasions, mining is classified as producing nonrenewable resources in a period when we are all being encouraged to seek out renewable resources and turn our attention increasingly toward recycling.
		Minerals, like virtually all other natural resources and agriculture, are at the bottom of the production process and therefore their importance is often denied or overlooked by our increasingly sophisticated service-oriented populace.
		In this example, the iron ore natural resource is priced at about 1.1 cents per pound at the mine mouth ready for shipment, but it is worth approximately 45 cents per pound when manufactured into nails or about $2.50 per pound when used in an automobile.
	web1.msue.msu.edu /msue/imp/modsr/03289581.html (7089 words)

	Oregon Coastal Management Program Principle Policies of the Oregon ORMP
		Ocean resources conservation means that the integrity, diversity, stability, complexity, and the productivity of marine biological communities and their habitats are maintained or, where necessary, restored.
		Allow fishing and the harvest of renewable resources around all of the nearshore rocks and islands unless the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife determines that a specific use or activity adversely affects sensitive marine bird or mammal populations.
		Allow academic and public agency scientific research on nonrenewable resources within three miles of nearshore rocks and islands, if ODFW determines that these activities will not adversely affect sensitive marine bird and mammals populations or their habitats.
	www.oregon.gov /LCD/OCMP/Ocean_Policies.shtml (3718 words)

	nonrenewable resources
		Mineral resources are not uniform throughout the earth.
		As we continue to use our mineral resources, they will be harder to find and more costly to develop.
		This is when the resource is near the surface and is extracted by first removing the solid subsoil and overlying rock.
	www.scs.sk.ca /vol/HTT/RR/Minerals.htm (1478 words)

	NPS Ethnography: Ethnography in the Parks
		In other words, Park management should treat a TAPS request for access to a nonrenewable site in the same way it treats any request to use Park resources, whether it is to use the Park for making a movie or to undertake research on grizzly bear behavior.
		In the end, however, I believe there are ways that nonrenewable resources can be used for traditional purposes and not seriously compromise the integrity of the resource.
		The potential for conflict between TAPS and historical resources is especially acute in the National Park Service where the stated mission of many National Parks is to protect an historical resource.
	www.cr.nps.gov /ethnography/TRAINING/TAPS/access.htm (2792 words)

	JEL: December 1998
		Observed data are often inconsistent with the Hotelling rule, suggesting that other characteristics of nonrenewable resource supply, including exploration, heterogeneous ore quality, technological progress, and capital investment, are important determinants of the dynamic behavior of resource prices.
		Given the persistent recurrence of concern about nonrenewable resource scarcity, measures of nonrenewable resource scarcity and the empirical evidence for the time trends of those measures are reviewed.
		Finally, the implications of nonrenewable resource scarcity for economic growth are examined.
	www.aeaweb.org /journal/contents/dec1998.html (529 words)

	Renewable resource Summary
		In terms of the human timescale, a nonrenewable resource cannot be renewed once it has been consumed.
		In 1992, the RNRF organized the "Congress on Renewable Natural Resources: Critical Issues and Concepts for the Twenty-First Century." At the Congress, held in Vail, Colorado, 135 of America's leading scientists and resource professionals gathered to discuss critical natural resource issues that this nation will be facing as the twenty-first century approaches.
		A renewable resource is any natural resource that is depleted at a rate slower than the rate at which it regenerates.
	www.bookrags.com /Renewable_resource (1028 words)

	Economic Growth with Nonrenewable Energy Resource
		This paper presents a three factor growth model with a nonrenewable resource such as energy added to capital and labor inputs, analyzing instantaneous adjustments of factor prices, per capita income, and the two input ratios.
		The present growth model includes a nonrenewable resource along with capital and labor inputs, integrating concepts from resource economics, growth theory, and production theory.
		A nonrenewable energy resource added to the neoclassical growth model introduces its own dynamics and affords a much larger role for substitution in influencing the evolution of income distribution.
	www.auburn.edu /~thomph1/growthn.htm (5764 words)

	Water, Water, Everywhere... · Management · Conservation - in English
		Inexhaustible resources, such as sunlight for example, will always be around during our lifetime.
		Therefore, the use of one living renewable resource will affects others in a natural environment” (Dineen.) To illustrate this point, if you cut down all the trees in a rainforest, there would be an adverse effect on the animals and plants that depended on the trees to maintain an environment suitable to sustain their lives.
		Nonrenewable resources, such as coal, iron, and petroleum, cannot be replaced.
	library.thinkquest.org /C0115522/article.php?qs_article_id=45&qs_language=EN&qs_section=MA (1395 words)

	MCPS Recycling Curriculum 4.4
		Distribute the "My Natural Resource is ____" Sheet (Handout #2) and have students write in the name of their resource.
		A nonrenewable resource is a natural resource that cannot be regenerated except over long periods of time.
		Nonrenewable resources are in limited supply and once they are used up they are gone forever.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /curriculum/Socialstd/grade4/Recycle_4_4.html (3270 words)

	Energy Resources Today
		Renewable energy resources can be replenished in a short period of time, so they will never be all used up.
		Energy companies around the country are using renewable resources more and more to generate electricity.
		However, if it comes from a nonrenewable resource like fossil fuels, fuel cells are considered nonrenewable.
	www.midamericanenergy.com /eew/more/resources.html (1119 words)

	Accounting for the benefits of forest resources: concepts and experience
		This omission tends to cause the net depletion method to overstate both the decrease in capitalized forest value that occurs when mature forests are logged and the increase that occurs as immature forests regenerate.
		The obvious way to generalize the nonrenewable resource model in the preceding section to the case of renewable resources is to modify the state equation, (9), to include growth of the resource stock:
		These are the analogues to the direct method for nonrenewable resources given by (8), i.e.
	www.fao.org /DOCREP/005/AC272E/AC272E09.htm (2292 words)

	nonrenewable resources
		Mineral resources are not uniform throughout the earth.
		As we continue to use our mineral resources, they will be harder to find and more costly to develop.
		This is when the resource is near the surface and is extracted by first removing the solid subsoil and overlying rock.
	www.lhup.edu /smarvel/Seminar/FALL_2000/Crissey/Crissey.htm (1478 words)

	Lesson 1: Examination of Trees as a Renewable Resource
		(use of nonrenewable resources) and present (use of renewable resources).
		Renewable resource: something people harvest in nature that can be re-made or re-grown by humans.
		Nonrenewable resource: something found in nature that takes millions of years to form.
	web.mala.bc.ca /education/NSmith/lessons/grade5/less1vm.htm (1378 words)

	Ecological Footprints
		We also reduce the biological value of some valuable materials by contaminating it with toxic industrial materials, such as PCB and pesticides in sewage flowing in our cities to treatment plants, instead of where it can be a food resource for soil microorganisms.
		While we depend on a nonrenewable resource in the form of fossil fuel, we also return to the global system the raw material of photosynthesis, CO at an accelerated rate, and cause "pollution" of the atmosphere.
		One of the ironies of economics is that there is no ecological signal related to the supply of natural resources remaining that support life and human civilizations.
	www.sbs.utexas.edu /resource/EcoFtPrnt/footprint.htm (996 words)

	Lesson Plans - Everything Comes From Something
		A resource is an aspect of the physical environment that people value and use.
		Research should determine the resources used to make the product, whether the resources are renewable or nonrenewable, and where each resource is found.
		Have each student demonstrate his or her understanding by creating a pamphlet that explains which resources are essential to sustaining life in the United States today and which will be essential in the future.
	www.nationalgeographic.com /xpeditions/lessons/16/gk2/everything.html (543 words)

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