natural resource
(noun)
Any source of wealth that occurs naturally, especially minerals, fossil fuels, timber, etc.
Examples of natural resource in the following topics:
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Basic Economics of Natural Resources
- Natural resource economics focuses on the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources to create a more efficient economy.
- Natural resource economics focuses on the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources.
- The main objective of natural resource economics is to gain a better understanding of the role of natural resources in the economy.
- Extraction: the process of withdrawing resources from nature.
- Natural resource economics focuses on the demand, supply, and allocation of natural resources to increase sustainability.
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Types of Natural Resources
- Natural resource economics focuses on the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources.
- Natural resource economics focuses on the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources.
- Natural resources are derived from the environment.
- Non-renewable natural resources: these resources form extremely slow and do not naturally form in the environment.
- Analyze natural resource economics and explain the types of natural resources that exist.
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Natural Resource Market
- Most natural resources that are used can be acquired through the open market or through private deals.
- Below are some methods of acquiring different natural resources for production.
- Not all commodities are natural resources, and not all natural resources are commodities, but commodity markets remain an important source for many resources.
- Not all natural resources can be acquired on commodity markets.
- These costs can make these natural resources more expensive.
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Special Considerations for Acquisition and Depletion of Natural Resources
- Resources supplied by nature are subject to special accounting conventions to calculate cost and depletion.
- Resources supplied by nature, such as ore deposits, mineral deposits, oil reserves, gas deposits, and timberstands, are natural resources or wasting assets.
- Then assign this total cost to either the cost of natural resources sold or the inventory of the natural resource still on hand.
- Carson Fall in Mount Kinabalu, Malaysia is an example of an undisturbed natural resource.
- Define a natural resource and how to properly account for its depletion
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Externalities and Impacts on Resource Allocation
- Production and use of resources can have a positive or negative effect on the allocation of the natural resources.
- In regards to natural resources, production and use of resources can have a positive or negative effect on the allocation of the resources.
- In other words, society and the natural resources involved would have been better off if the natural resources had not been used at all.
- Assuming that natural resources are used and also sustained, the external benefits of goods produced by natural resources impacts the majority of the public in a positive way.
- Examine externalities and how they the impact resource allocation of natural resources.
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Recoverable Reserves
- Recoverable reserves are the amount of a natural resource present and their value is used to compute the resource's depletion expense.
- Natural reserves supplied by nature, such as ore deposits, mineral deposits, oil reserves, gas deposits, and timber stands, are natural resources or wasting assets.
- Natural resources represent inventories of raw materials that are consumed (exhausted) through extraction or removal from their natural setting (e.g. removing oil from the ground).
- Businesses that are involved in the recovery of natural resources, such as mining, growing timber, and extracting petroleum will incur costs related to the resource recovery.
- The natural reserves recovered involve several costs related to acquisition, exploration, development, and restoration of the natural resources.
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Natural Resources, Infrastructure, and Technology of New Markets
- Natural resources are materials and components (something that can be used) that can be found within the environment.
- Every man-made product is composed of natural resources at its fundamental level.
- A natural resource may exist as a separate entity, such as fresh water, or as a living organism, such as fish.
- There is much debate worldwide over natural resource allocations, partly due to increasing scarcity but also because the exportation of natural resources is the basis for many economies.
- Natural resources that can be found everywhere, such as sunlight and air, are known as ubiquitous resources.
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Resource Control
- Control over a natural resource that is critical to the production of a final good is one source of monopoly power.
- Control over natural resources that are critical to the production of a good is one source of monopoly power.
- Single ownership over a resource gives the owner of the resource the power to raise the market price of a good over marginal cost without losing customers to competitors.
- In practice, monopolies rarely arise because of control over natural resources.
- International trade is an additional source of competition for owners of natural resources.
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Marginal Productivity and Resource Demand
- Firms will demand more of a resource if the marginal product of the resource is greater than the marginal cost.
- The marginal product of a given resource is the additional revenue generated by employing one more unit of the resource.
- Since firms will seek to use additional resources if the net marginal product is positive, they can affect the demand for the resources.
- Some resources, though, are public goods and therefore are not regulated by normal market forces.
- Oil is a natural resource that is traded in markets.
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The Resource-Based View
- In the resource-based view (RBV), strategic planning uses organizational resources to generate a viable strategy.
- To transform a short-run competitive advantage into a sustained competitive advantage requires that these resources are heterogeneous in nature and not perfectly mobile.
- Rare – To be of value, a resource must be rare by definition.
- In a perfectly competitive strategic factor market for a resource, the price of the resource will reflect expected future above-average returns.
- Knowledge-based resources are "the essence of the resource-based perspective."