Browsing Geography (Scholarly Publications) by Date of Publication
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Past, current and future Interactions between pressures, chemicaL status and bioLogical qUality eleMents for lakes IN contrAsting catchmenTs in IrEland (ILLUMINATE)
(2010-10-17)The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland-funded project `Past, current and future interactions between pressures, chemical status and biological quality elements for lakes in contrasting catchments in Ireland? ... -
Greening the economy: interrogating sustainability innovations beyond the mainstream
(2011)Current international economic and environmental conditions have led to increasing calls for alternative pathways of development. Globally the language of a green economy is being promoted as a means to develop a `win-win? ... -
Temporary and Circular Migration: Ireland
(ESRI, 2011)The current study is part of an EU-wide study intended to promote understanding of temporary and circular migration by Third Country nationals. Most migration policy development in Ireland has been related to migration ... -
Public awareness and performance relating to the implementation of a low-carbon economy in China: a case study from Zhengzhou
(2011)This paper aims to examine levels of awareness and performance relating to the promotion of a Low-carbon economy (LCE) among the general public in Zhengzhou, China. The data and information used were derived from 300 ... -
Reassessing transfer-function performance in sea-level reconstruction based on benthic salt-marsh foraminifera from the Atlantic Coast of NE North America
(Elsevier, 2011)The need to increase the number and distribution of sea-level records spanning the last few hundred years has led to particular interest in developing high-precision, geologically based sea-level reconstructions that capture ... -
Visa Policy as Migration Channel, Ireland
(European Commission, 2011-12-01)An Irish visa is a form of pre-entry clearance to travel to a point of entry to the State only. Whether or not the visa carries any legitimate expectation of entering the State has been debated in the courts. Ireland and ... -
Spaces for sustainability learning? Future visioning as a geographical process for transforming production and consumption practices
(2012)Despite widely articulated concerns about unsustainable production and consumption processes, governance interventions have led to only incremental shifts in routinised production and consumption behaviour, particularly ... -
Geography and the matter of waste mobilities
(2012)It is the case that `all societies both throw things away and abandon them? (Gregson et al. 2007a, 697). Such divestment does not mean that those things, commonly called waste, cease to exist rather it often marks the ... -
Multiple Disadvantage in Ireland: An Equality Analysis of Census 2006
(The Equality Authority and the ESRI, 2012-03-23)This report draws on the full 2006 Census microdata file to examine the effects of belonging to groups who are disadvantaged according to the nine grounds identified in Equality Legislation (gender, civil status, family ... -
Practical Measures for Reducing Irregular Migration: Ireland
(Report prepared for the European Commission Directorate-General Home Affairs and published by the ES, 2012-03-30)This study investigates practical measures for reducing irregular migration in Ireland. Irish policy towards irregular migration is influenced by the State?s geographical position, at the north-western periphery of Europe, ... -
Annual Monitoring Report on Integration 2011
(ESRI/The Integration Centre, 2012-06-05)Annual monitoring report on integration for 2012 -
Modelling the Development of Rocky Shoreline Profiles along the Northern Coast of Ireland
(2013)A mathematical wave-erosion model is used to simulate postglacial shoreline profiles along the rocky, high energy coast of the north of Ireland. The wave erosion model is driven by a suite of relative sea-level (RSL) curves ... -
Recent developments in planetary Aeolian studies and their terrestrial analogs
(2013)This paper summarizes the many advances that have been made in the study of planetary Aeolian processes that have taken place since the first Planetary Dunes Workshop was held in May of 2008, through 2011. Many of the ... -
Silicon Valley in Eastern Slovakia? Neo-liberalism, knowledge economy and post-socialism.
(2013)The essay critically examines the prospect of emulating a Silicon Valley-style regional development in the post-socialist context of East-Central Europe. It underlines the problematic nature of the Silicon Valley concept ... -
Medieval Irish chronicles reveal persistent volcanic forcing of severe winter cold events, 431 - 1649 CE
(2013)Explosive volcanism resulting in stratospheric injection of sulfate aerosol is a major driver of regional to global climatic variability on interannual and longer timescales. However, much of our knowledge of the climatic ... -
Sedimentary Indicators of Relative Sea-Level Change - Low Energy
(Elsevier, 2013)Fine grained sediments associated with low energy conditions have proven to be useful archives of relative sea-level data. Low energy inter-tidal environments, such as saltmarshes and mangroves, are closely linked to the ... -
Intra EU Mobility of Third-Country Nationals: Ireland
(Report prepared for the European Commission Directorate-General Home Affairs and published by the ES, 2013-03-21)This study, compiled according to commonly agreed specifications, provides an overview of the key issues and challenges that are apparent in relation to the intra-EU mobility of third-country nationals to and from Ireland. ... -
Environmental Futures
(2014)