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Although calculations at the watershed level just compare the balance between the potential supply amount and consumption amount, this does offer suggestions for establishing a resource-circulating society in that it showed the possibility of building an independent system at the watershed level. The future challenge will be how to optimize allocation and distribution of biological resources and build sustainable regional ecosystems, including social systems and other components, based on biological resource cycles.
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