An Economic Review of the Irish Geoscience Sector

​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: Geoenergy, Geohazards, Geoheritage, Geoscience Ireland, Groundwater, Information, Land Mapping, Marine, Minerals, Planning, Tellus

Category: Corporate, Education, Research

Type: Report, Online Publication