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Resources are widely known to be scarce. Scarcity in economics means that the supply of resources is always limited relative to people’s demand in a certain period of time. On the one hand, people strive to have as many resources as possible; on the other hand, the amount of resources is limited. Therefore, there is a contradiction between the limitation of resources and the infinity of people’s desire. It is precisely because of the objective existence of scarcity that economists are forced to study how to use limited resources to produce more products from the perspective of economics, that is, how to make efficient utilization of resources.
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Song, M., Ding, T., Chen, J. (2023). Analysis of Temporal and Spatial Evolution of Natural Resources Utilization. In: Natural Resources Utilization in China. Contributions to Public Administration and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4981-6_7
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