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...working class housing in Great Ancoats Street as ‘ruinous’ rows of ‘back-to-backs’ amongst the towering mill buildings. In the 20th century, industry declined and housing deteriorated further into slums amongst the derelict factories. But 21st century Great Ancoats Street is rising again above the rubble, with many of the great mills converted into apartments and...

...work is linked to the Environment and Society course - DD213, which studies the entanglements between society and the environment. And explores how financial markets are being a solution to some of the risks to firms and their profitability presented by nature. It broadly looks at how weather such as severe drought, too much rainfall, unusually warm winters and so on, can...