Tag: sustainable development

FAQs: Understanding and Transitioning Towards a Circular Economy

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By Tim Thornton Much economic activity is currently characterized by a linear process of ‘make-take-waste’, in which finite resources are extracted to make products that are used—often not to their full potential—and then thrown away. For example, between 2018-2023, the world consumed over 500 gigatons of materials, equivalent to 28 percent of all the materials […]

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Microeconomics and the Environment

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By Brian Roach, Erin Lennox and Anne-Marie Codur This module provides an introduction to the economic analysis of environmental issues, providing broader perspectives on sustainability and ecological economics as well as standard environmental economic techniques such as valuation. Applications include fisheries management, sustainable agriculture, and global climate change. It has been updated to include the […]

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