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For non-renewable resources, with relatively simple dynamics, this works well; for living resources, however, far greater nonlinearities intrude, complicating analysis immensely.
Recent increases in non-renewable energy costs, however, may mean farmers will consider alternative crop production systems that require fewer energy inputs, such as forage-based rotations94.
However, this does not permit overly rapid depletion of non-renewable resources or imply that environmental degradation does not matter.
Depleting a stock of a non-renewable resource does not change the economy's instantaneous net productive capacity.
Over extraction may even result in use of the non-renewable part of the resource.
The latter is a non-renewable resource which is not productive as a stock.
As for the suppliers of a non-renewable resource, say oil, any quantity supplied at a particular point in time cannot be continued indefinitely.
Both approaches dominated the literature on economic rent calculation and optimal extraction of non-renewable resources.
Although guano is accepted as an input for organic production, it is important to emphasize that guano is a non-renewable resource, as rapid exploitation will lead to its depletion.
Apart from small islands and coastal communities, the social systems under threat are those producing the most carbon dioxide and overexploiting both renewable and non-renewable resources.
Some stocks of groundwater are found in largely non-renewable aquifers where water was deposited in ancient times, underlying regions having little river flow or precipitation and thus little recharge.
Managed with some level of diversity, perennial cropping systems promise many benefits in terms of land, water and wildlife conservation and decreased dependence on non-renewable energy sources4.
For the natural capital component (the non-renewable resource), the positive returns are solely in terms of capital gains, which are not captured by its zero own rate of interest.
It is assumed that timber is a non-renewable resource based in the fact that timber exploitation derives from forestland conversion devoted to agricultural production and cattle-raising.
The two classic approaches to intergenerational equity in an economy with capital and non-renewable resources are maximin, which yields constant consumption, and optimality using a constant utility discount rate.
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