Renewable Resource

A renewable resource is a natural resource which will replenish to replace the portion depleted by usage and consumption, either through natural reproduction or other recurring processes in a finite amount of time in a human time scale. It is also known as non conventional energy resources. When the recovery rate of resources is unlikely to ever exceed a human time scale, these are called perpetual resources.

Renewable resources are a part of Earth's natural environment and the largest components of its ecosphere.
A positive life-cycle assessmenoduction, as in agricultural products and to an extent water resources.
In 1962, Paul Alfred Weiss defined renewable resources as: "The total range of living organisms providing man with life, fibres, etc...

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