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How Does Applied Microeconomic Research Accelerate Climate Change Adaptation?

Environmental and Urban Economics

& Yanguas, Maria Lucia, 2020. " My 2020 LSE Lecture explores this theme. Boustan, Leah Platt & Kahn, Matthew E. & Rhode, Paul W. The effect of natural disasters on economic activity in US counties: A century of data ," Journal of Urban Economics , Elsevier, vol. Rhiannon Jerch & Matthew E. Kahn & Gary C.

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Gulf coast oil workers are building America’s offshore wind industry

A Greener Life

A single offshore wind farm could employ more than 4,000 people during construction and 150 people long-term, according to a 2020 analysis by the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory , a national laboratory of the U.S. Department of Energy.