Essays about: "UK economy"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 49 essays containing the words UK economy.

  1. 11. Recyclability by Design for Multilayer Plastic Flexible Packaging

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Förpackningslogistik

    Author : Sonika Singh; [2020]
    Keywords : Recyclability by design; multilayer flexible packaging; PE; PP; plastic recycling; circular plastic economy; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : Various recyclability by design (RBD) guidelines for multilayer plastic flexible packaging (MPFP) were assessed for consistency among parameter values. 9% consistency was observed, which is on the lower end of devised consistency scale. READ MORE

  3. 12. Towards Circular Economy : Wood ash management for biomass CHP plants in the UK

    University essay from KTH/Kraft- och värmeteknologi

    Author : Étienne Joseph Marcel Bastien; [2020]
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    Abstract : In response to climate change, the United Kingdom has committed to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. To reach the set target, the Committee on Climate Change is planning a notable increase of bioenergy up to 15% in the national energy mix and thus an increase of the amount of ash produced. READ MORE

  4. 13. The State of the North Sea : Thatcherism and the Fossil Economy

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

    Author : George Edwards; [2020]
    Keywords : North Sea oil; Thatcherism; fossil economy; accumulation; environmental history; economic history; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis is a historical study concerned with the impact of North Sea oil on British politics during the 1970's and 80's. Vast quantities of oil sedimented beneath the waves within the UK continental shelf – hundreds of miles of the north-east coast of Scotland – attracted oil barons and transnational majors to the hostile waters of the North Sea in the early 1970's. READ MORE

  5. 14. Hur hanterar den svenska skogsbranschen Brexit? : en kvalitativ studie med fokus på svenska sågverksföretag

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Forest Economics

    Author : Axel Ljudén; Nils Rubensson; [2020]
    Keywords : Brexit; Europeiska unionen; export; riskhantering; trä; European Union; wood; risk management;

    Abstract : I juni 2016 hölls en folkomröstning i Storbritannien om att stanna kvar eller lämna EU. 17,4 miljoner britter röstade för utträde vilket gav Brexit-sidan majoritet i valet med 52 procent (BBC News 2020). De svenska skogsbolagen har en stark etablerad export av trävaror till den brittiska marknaden. READ MORE

  6. 15. Can Good Institutions Avert the Resource Curse?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Jonatan Schubeis; [2020]
    Keywords : Capital stock; Dutch disease; Natural resource curse; Petroleum; Synthetic control method;

    Abstract : To establish the economic impact of petroleum in the UK, this paper uses the synthetic control method. By constructing an artificial UK economy without oil, from the donor pool of OECD economies, it establishes the counterfactual time path of capital stock the UK would have had if it lacked the petroleum endowment. READ MORE