Resources, residuals and irreversible land conversions: prototype management instruments

Technical Report · Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1976

OSTI ID:6406724

Edens, T C; Mecuro, N

Efforts to make production and consumption compatible with ecological and thermodynamic constraints will require changes in policy objectives concerning: (1) control of renewable residuals (water, forest products, solar energy, organic compounds); (2) control of irreversible land conversions; and (3) control of non-renewable resources (fossil fuels, uranium, steel). Alleviating these problems will require several policies affecting resource utilization and residual emissions. Efforts to make the present economic and social system compatible with future resource allocation and depletion will necessitate changing, altering, and redesigning the current structures.

• Research Organization: Michigan State Univ., East Lansing (USA). Design and Management of Rural Ecosystems
• OSTI ID: 6406724
• Report Number(s): PB-283968
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES
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IRON ORES
PLANNING
PRODUCTION
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT
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URANIUM
ACTINIDES
ELEMENTS
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FUELS
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