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An Economic Review of the Irish Geoscience Sector

An Economic Review of the Irish Geoscience Sector

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​The Economic Review puts a value of €3,277m on the overall Economic Impact of the sectoral outputs for 2016, across the areas of Geotourism & Geoheritage, Groundwater, Extractive Industries, Geoscience Research and Geohazards. Employment (FTE's) figures calculated for the same year, across the same subsectors, comes to 15,110 directly employed, with a further 9,628 Indirect and Induced, giving a total of 24,739.

The new report was compiled from CSO figures and other sources by Indecon International Economic Consultants and is available for download here.


 

Topic:
Climate Change, Environmental Health, Geology, Construction Engineering, Energy, Heritage, Marine, Natural Hazards, Water
Programme:
Geothermal, Geothermal, Geoheritage, Geoscience Ireland, Groundwater, Information, Geological Mapping, Marine and Coastal Unit, Minerals, Planning, Tellus
Category:
Corporate, Education, Research
Type:
Report, Online Publication