"You've got competing uses, with tradeoffs between jobs, waterfront access, housing, retail jobs and industrial jobs.
Rural landscapes in many parts of the world are experiencing increasing pressure from competing uses.
The relative importance of these issues varies considerably by location, depending on the sources and competing uses for water.
However, no-till is effective only with the use of crop residue as mulch, which has numerous competing uses.
Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising source for bioethanol production, because it is abundant worldwide and has few competing uses.
Knowledge on evapotranspiration is essential in quantifying water use depletion and to allocate scarce water resources to competing uses.
In Germany, if a court determines that a company legally holds a patent, it can issue an injunction to ban competing uses if asked.
Regulation of the availability and cost of credit may be nonselective or may be designed to influence the distribution of credit among competing uses.
Introduces basic economic analysis for planning students including the functioning of markets, the allocation of scarce resources among competing uses, profit maximizing behavior in different market structures.
The ultimate choices among competing uses of resources, however, must reflect public preferences, as determined by our elected representatives in Congress and the White House.
A hydroeconomic simulation model links the marginal value of water, which reflects water scarcity given its competing uses, to water supply reservoir levels.
