renewability
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5.1
- noun
- /rɪˈnuːəˌbɪlɪti/
- Specialized
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renovabilidad
- The renewability of forests is crucial for maintaining biodiversity and combating climate change.
Examples
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EROEI/EROI's chief use has been to denigrate efforts to find substitutes for oil by fallaciously comparing things that are different and not recognizing that other characteristics of energy forms are important, such as renewability, utility, and price.
Blog text (22) -
For uses that necessarily alter resources in the process of deriving benefits from them, MSU depends on the resource's renewability and substitutability.
Academic text (1992) -
"Their renewability and relative ease of processing reduce environmental impact."
Academic text (2005) -
Guaranteed coverage and renewability for all eligible people regardless of their health status.
Blog text (29) -
It ignores relevant factors like price, utility, renewability, and locality.
Blog text (5) -
This means that ecological economists must factor in the actual stocks and flows of environmental capital and register levels of depletion and time frames for renewability.
Academic text (2005) -
It is only valid in tightly controlled comparisons where like and like are being compared, thereby limiting the errors of omitting price, utility, renewability, and locality.
Blog text (5) -
The renewability of solar energy makes it a sustainable choice for the future.
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Investing in resources with high renewability can help protect the environment.
Synonyms
The ability to be put back to how it was before
How easily people can fix something and use it again after damage
How easy it is to swap one thing for another
The chance that something can be saved or fixed
The ability of living tissue to heal after being damaged
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Renewability comes from the parts re- 'again' and new, so a helpful image is nature making things 'new again' like wind, sunlight, or trees that grow back. So renewability means a resource can be naturally replaced or restored.