The phrase "a study of alternatives" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing research or analysis that explores different options or choices available in a particular context.
Example: "The report presents a study of alternatives to traditional energy sources, highlighting the benefits and drawbacks of each option."
Alternatives: "an analysis of options" or "an examination of choices".
But he said that when he headed a study of alternatives for three Florida counties, he found that the optical scanning system was costly to set up, and was prone to other problems.
The shares of Michael Foods Inc. fell 15percentt yesterday after the company, a food processor and distributor, said a study of alternatives to increase share value did not provide any suitable options.
The barrier best suited to the Erie Canal should be determined by a study of alternatives that considers their costs, compatibility with canal operations and effectiveness against invasive species.
Graham was upset because the Obama administration's 2014 budget request called for a study of alternatives to the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, under construction at DOE's Savannah River Site in Aiken, South Carolina.
A clause in NEPA requiring a study of alternatives and another clause requiring an environmental impact statement turned those concerns into tools used by the Wilderness Society, Friends of the Earth, and the Environmental Defense Fund in their spring 1970 lawsuit to stop the project.
The intelligence community is preparing a series of reports on the impacts of climate change on individual countries like China and India, a study of alternative fuels and a look at how major power relations could be strained by a changing climate.
The U.S. Congress even ordered a study of alternative sources because of the American military's dependence on China's supply of rare earth minerals.
She also wrote a study of alternative therapies — in which she argued that doctors were worthless, and pharmaceutical drugs cause disease — and a manual, "Rituals for Everyday Living," published in 1994, that describes possible ceremonial responses to life transitions, including one to assist someone recollecting sexual abuse.
In a study of alternative splicing of SR genes, which undergo extensive alternative splicing in Arabidopsis, it was found that in almost all SR genes the longest intron was involved in generating multiple transcripts by alternative splicing.
White was given a month to present a study of the alternatives.
