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• Unit 1 Micro: Occupational Mobility from Mines to ..... Mines

  
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  Miners made redundant from Maltby Colliery in Yorkshire many of whom with decades of experience faced years on the unemployment register when the mine closed earlier in 2013. But some have been thrown a lifeline with the rising demand for miners in the UK potash industry. This BBC news report follows the miners ...
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• Environmental Economics: Carbon Prices for Next 1000 Years

  
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  The pricing of carbon emissions needs to be sensitive to both long-run climate outcomes and short-term concerns about the macroeconomy. Research by Reyer Gerlagh and Matti Liski reconciles these two timeframes and comes up with optimal prices of between €20 and €130 per ton of carbon dioxide. The essence ...
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• Unit 4 Macro: Planet Friendly Economic Growth Rates

  
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  A new analysis of the allocation of carbon emissions between developed and emerging economies The developed countries must accept an annual growth rate of approximately 1.2% over the next 75 years to stabilise the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide at 450 parts per million (ppm). Likewise, growth ...
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• Unit 1 Micro: By-Products from Sewage in Dubai

  
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  The rapid growth and development of economic activity in Dubai has put enormous pressure on the water and sewage infrastructure available in the Emirate. Six years ago there was only one sewage works open there but big investment in new plant has increased the capacity and reduced externalities from a sewage system ...
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• Worker Bees

  
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  Credit: National Geographic Quick: what domesticated animal adds more than $600 million to California’s economy every year? That is equal to nearly half the size of California’s cattle industry and roughly the same size as the poultry industry. The answer? Bees. And unlike cattle and poultry, whose value is ...
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• Unit 3 Micro: Carbon Trading and Business Economics

  
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  This streamed revision presentation looks at the economic impact of carbon trading schemes and effects on business costs and profits. It also focuses on an evaluation question for an exam on the effectiveness of carbon trading as a way of cutting emissions. Carbon Trading and Business Economics from ...
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• Local economy ruined by pesticide pollution in the Caribbean

  
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  On 15 April more than 100 fishermen demonstrated in the streets of Fort de France, the main town on Martinique, in the French West Indies. In January they barricaded the port until the government in Paris allocated €2m ($2.6m) in aid, which they are still waiting for. The contamination caused by chlordecone, a ...
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