Sounds and sonotopes qualify as renewable resources under Farina’s resource theory.

Evidence

The word resource is used in both ecology and economics, and literally it means “re-surge,” from the Latin “spring (surgere) again (re).” This term can be applied to every natural element (abiotic and biotic) as well as to any manmade elements, material or immaterial, which, after having been used/consumed, regenerates itself by way of its internal, independent mechanisms. Some sounds (especially music) or some sonotopes such as the bird chorus in an urban park, or the silence of a remote location in the wild, can be considered acoustic resources. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 208

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames acoustic resources — including silence and bird choruses — as renewable (re-surge) elements, giving silence standing as a positive resource rather than mere absence.
• XREF: That ‘the silence of a remote location in the wild’ counts as a renewable acoustic resource echoes the reader’s prior work on silence-as-positive-presence and the One Square Inch of Silence material. — connects to: Sound functions as an ecological resource organisms track for survival — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 248
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source