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The Economics of Pollution

The Economics of Pollution

Update: 2024-07-01
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Communities with lower-income residents can be impacted more by pollution. But why? And can anything be done?



With pollution impacting health and employment opportunities, can regulations help these communities? Will they make industries pack up and leave? Or is that just a handy excuse?



A crash of economists invades the studio to talk to Jan and Paul about how industrial pollution ties in with economics and sustainability.



Professor Dakshina De Silva, and Drs Anita Schiller and Aurelie Slechten explain how economists view the world –and how we can measure the social costs of pollution.



And we discover shockingly that there may be a ‘Wrong Side’ of the river in Lancaster.

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