resource flow
collocation in Englishmeaningsofresourceandflow
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resource
noun
uk/rɪˈzɔːs/us/ˈriː.sɔːrs/
a useful or valuable possession or quality of a country, organization, ...
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flow
noun
uk/fləʊ/us/floʊ/
the movement of something in ...
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(Definition ofresourceandflowfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofresource flow
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A related but frequently neglected aspect of ecosystem development is that once aresourceflowhas been engineered the original pathway may be lost entirely.
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Cost of production and output for each enterprise, andresourceflowbetween the enterprises and interaction of various enterprises were also recorded.
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In all, the price signals generated by resource markets, including futures markets, are ineffective at ensuring natural capital maintenance and a sustainableresourceflow.
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Among the different enterprises of integrated farming systems, a chain of interaction andresourceflowwas observed.
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Appropriation problems are the externalities that are caused to a resource user (appropriator) by the withdrawal of aresourceflowby other appropriators.
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Note the benefit of having in place a resource use permit scheme to restrict the incomingresourceflowto the maximum sustainable rate.
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The same problem does not arise with a resource use permit system because, first and foremost, the permissible incomingresourceflowis restricted to the maximum sustainable rate.
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We developed a hierarchical scheme for agricultural systems ranging from basic agricultural production systems, which are the simplest system with noresourceflowbetween enterprises, to dynamic-integrated agricultural systems.
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Resourceflowwas more symmetrical, on average, between unrelated households, following expectations for reciprocal altruism and balanced reciprocity.
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Resource flows to support ' humanitarian ' imperatives, are then used by these warriers for political purposes.
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Privatisation has also helped to reinvigorate the local investmentsavings market by attracting large resource flows from local sources and abroad into the economy.
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Many organisms create or alter resource flows that affect the composition and spatial arrangement of current and future organismal diversity.
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The migrant-resident relationship is still much alive, but not without reductions in resource flows.
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This kind of intermediation depends on the existence of a state that monopolises and controls the direction of power and resource flows to the periphery.
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These changes to resource flows are likely to persist for long periods and constrain the biological structure of the habitat.
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Inevitably, organisations in well-defined intermediary roles may exhibit signs of 'hybridity' in terms of their resource flows, goals, steering mechanisms and corporate identity (pp. 246-7).
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To do this effectively requires ring-fencing of accounts, defined by capital and revenue, to ensure that resource flows can be recorded and mapped against the attainment of such objectives.
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Stopping the resource flows would sharply reduce the oxygen of the manipulators, while the possibility of this might also encourage host governments to act more forcefully.
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