strategy
Improving natural resource use
Synonyms:
Increasing efficiency of utilization of raw materials Implementation:
The more we learn about materials, the more efficiently we use them. The progress from candles to carbon-filament to tungsten incandescent lamps, for example, decreased the energy required for and the cost of a unit of household lighting by many times. Compact fluorescent lights are four times as efficient as today's incandescent bulbs and last ten to twenty times as long. Comparable energy savings are available in other appliances: for example, refrigerators sold in 1993 were 23 percent more efficient than those sold in 1990 and 65 percent more efficient than those sold in 1980, saving consumers billions in electric bills. Claim:
If the future is like the past, there will be prolonged and substantial reductions in natural-resource requirements per unit of real output. Why shouldn't the productivity of most natural resources rise more or less steadily through time, like the productivity of labour? Narrower:
Developing access systemsEffecting territorial developmentDeveloping cohesive natural environmentHarnessing primary fuels Constrains:
Imposing priorities on natural resource useReducing alternatives for development of natural resources Constrained by:
Rationalizing simultaneous development of natural resourcesPlanning development of natural resources Facilitates:
Preserving natural resourcesEnsuring availability of basic reservesMaking possible new sources of materialsDemanding innovation of natural resource useProviding structure for exploitation of natural resources Facilitated by:
Demanding ecosystem modificationSpecifying required material resourcesEnsuring development of natural resourcesDiscovering new possibilities for use of natural resources Subjects:
Fundamental Sciences → MaterialResources → Resources
Cybernetics → Cybernetics
Economics → Resource utilization
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
D: Detailed strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
