Resource depletion accounting uses data provided from countries to estimate the adjustments needed due to their use and depletion of the natural capital available to them. Better known as ' green accounting,' depletion accounting aims to account for nature's value on an equal footing with the market economy. In an effort to offset the depletion of resources, theorists have come up with the concept of depletion accounting. Depletion of wildlife populations is called defaunation. Resource depletion is most commonly used in reference to farming, fishing, mining, water usage, and consumption of fossil fuels. There are several types of resource depletion, the most known being: Aquifer depletion, deforestation, mining for fossil fuels and minerals, pollution or contamination of resources, slash-and-burn agricultural practices, soil erosion, and overconsumption, excessive or unnecessary use of resources.

The value of a resource is a direct result of its availability in nature and the cost of extracting the resource, the more a resource is depleted the more the value of the resource increases. Use of either of these forms of resources beyond their rate of replacement is considered to be resource depletion. Natural resources are commonly divided between renewable resources and non-renewable resources (see also mineral resource classification). Resource depletion is the consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished.

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