In this investigation some economic policies or strategies of reducing salinity and keeping a sustainable future will be discussed and highlighted; 1) Tradable Pollution Licenses: Environmental resources do not have a "price" paid by users hence leads to serious depletion. To solve this problem governments should set pollution limits for each industry and issue tradable licenses where farmers with less polluting or better production (less externalities) can sell their unused licenses to other more polluting farmers (more externalities). ... Subsidies/ cash payments are designed to encourage...

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In 1978 the economical structure of China began moving from a slow Soviet type economy to more of a market oriented system. ... Another long term threat to growth is the deterioration in the environment, especially air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table specifically in the north. ...

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In this case, what we could do differently is allocate more money towards funding these types of programs instead of allocating it towards health care; however, I'm not sure if it works like this at the state or only the federal. ... We discussed in an earlier week that economic growth and development can lead to improvements in preventing pollution, so could our national economic growth that leads to our improvements being the cause of Kentucky's inability to prosper with our abundant coal resource? ...

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As society grow to include more people, human tastes and preferences continually grow, creating an inevitable conflict between the magnitudes of human wants and the availability of resources for satisfying them. The tension between limited resources and unlimited wants makes the efficient use of res...

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1) Define the term price elasticity of demand and describe the three (3) price elasticity ranges. Describe the relationship between the price elasticity of demand and total revenues of a firm. Provide at least one example of an actual product or service as a reference point in your answer.  ...

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