Deployment · Definition

Competing use

An existing or alternative demand for the same constrained resource.

Definition

An existing or alternative demand for the same constrained resource. Follow the related lesson to see how this term changes a system boundary or decision.

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Resource allocation and competing uses

Finite resources force choices among food, feed, soil, materials, fuels, energy and carbon removal—across actors and time.

REFERENCES

References & further reading

  1. Hamid Ghaderi, Mir Saman Pishvaee and Alireza Moini (2017). Biomass supply chain network design: An optimization-oriented review and analysis.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2016.09.027