natural resource

(noun)

Any source of wealth that occurs naturally, especially minerals, fossil fuels, timber, etc.

Related Terms

  • Natural resources can also be categorized based on their stage of development including:
  • Stock resources
  • Renewable
  • sustainable
  • depletion

Examples of natural resource in the following topics:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Introduction to the Economic Problem

    • What is the nature of wants?
    • What are the alternative social mechanisms that individuals may use to allocate resources?
    • What forces determine what we define as resources or inputs?
    • What is the nature of resources or inputs?
    • Propositional knowledge is knowledge or beliefs about natural phenomena: knowledge about the basic nature of things.
  • Introduction

    • What is the nature of wants?
    • What are the alternative social mechanisms that individuals may use to allocate resources?
    • What forces determine what we define as resources or inputs?
    • What is the nature of resources or inputs?
    • Propositional knowledge is knowledge or beliefs about natural phenomena: knowledge about the basic nature of things.
  • Why Governments Intervene In Markets

    • In an optimally efficient market, resources are perfectly allocated to those that need them in the amounts they need.
    • In inefficient markets that is not the case; some may have too much of a resource while others do not have enough.
    • Governments intervene to ensure those resources are not depleted.
    • Governments also intervene to minimize the damage caused by naturally occurring economic events.
    • Recessions and inflation are part of the natural business cycle but can have a devastating effect on citizens.
  • Introduction to the Rules of the Game

    • Whether a society emphasizes the use of exchange, reciprocity or eminent domain to allocate resources, "Any economic system requires a set of rules, an ideology to justify them, and a conscience in the individual which makes him strive to carry them out" (Robinson, p 13).
    • Neoclassical microeconomics does not often explicitly consider the nature of these rules and their relation to economic behavior.
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