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All of the following factors will tend to affect demand for real estate EXCEPT
It costs $78/ton to recycle paper. Recycled paper can be purchased for use by manufacutrers for $10 per ton. By recycling, society avoids the average cost for landfill waste of $24/ton. In this scenario, recycling is the socially feasible decision.
If demand is increasing, what would be the likely effect on real estate prices in an area where the municipality has declared a moratorium on new construction?
Which of the following is not an issue in benefit estimation?
With an initial stock of 150,000 tons of copper and a recovery rate of 25%, how much copper will be available for use after 5 years?
The cost per unit of consumption increases with additional units of consumption
The implementation of the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934 included all of the following EXCEPT:
Drought causes crop producers to utilize more groundwater for crops, which increases water stress
Governments earliest involvement established water rights, which are rights to use, not rights to own.
When goverment can legally acquire property for a "public purpose"
There has been a transition from coal and oil to natural gas and nuclear energy.
Which fuels have the highest and lowest amounts of carbon emissions (metric tons per billion BTUs) when combusted?
When land use in a particular area in inefficiently dispersed
Correlation does not imply causation.
All of the following have been major contributors to land conversion in the U.S. EXCEPT:
Ranking of bundles of goods (including attributes and price)
When land use restrictions are established to permit special land uses
Shortage of canned pumpkin at the grocery store increases hoarding of canned pumpkin for Thanksgiving, which increases the canned pumpkin shortage
Used to shift residential development from one portion of a community to another
Price ceilings imposed for natural gas caused all of the following EXCEPT: