Browsing School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies by Title
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Causes and consequences of fertility decline
(De Gruyter Open, 1993)While there is widespread concern throughout Europe during the current period of economic recession with high levels of unemployment and the recent upsurge in refugee movements associated with the serious ethnic conflict ... -
The Cave of Crúachain and the Otherworld
(2014)Oweynagat (Úaimh na gCat), the cave of the cats, is a natural cave with a souterrain attached in the royal site of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon. Today it is an inconspicuous monument but is famous in early literature as an ... -
The Celticization of the West: an Irish perspective
(1991)It is argued that the emergence of a Celtic language in Ireland was the culmination of a long process of social and economic interaction at an elite level between Ireland and Britain, and between these islands and adjacent ... -
Central places in a rural archaeological landscape
(Eagle Hill Institute, 2018)Archaeological survey in western Ireland has identified the existence of clusters of activity within the mapped landscapes of the 5th to 12th centuries A.D. Exploring this further, it is possible to identify elements ... -
Challenges for coastal management in Ireland. Case study: The Maharees, Castlegregory, County Kerry
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The challenges of protecting rural coastal communities from climate change impacts. A Case Study: Maharees Conservation Association CLG
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Challenging conventions towards energy sufficiency: ruptures in laundry and heating routines in Europe
(eceee Summer Study, 2019-06-03)This contribution proposes to address a central question in social science approaches to household energy studies: how do conventions around energy services evolve, how do they alter over time, and how can they be changed ... -
Challenging practices: experiences from community and individual living lab approaches
(Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-20)In this article, we examine a change initiative designed to involve households in testing ways to transform two everyday practices heating and doing laundry. The research design included an examination of the challenges ... -
Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries
(Elsevier, 2021-02-10)ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 ... -
Challenging the political economies of injustice: An interview with David Harvey
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Cheques and Balances
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China's emerging role in the global semiconductor value chain
(Elsevier, 2020-04-18)The global model of semiconductor development has resulted in an asymmetric and interdependent relationship between China's critical role in semiconductor production and those regions such as the US which control the key ... -
China's evolving role in Apple's global value chain
(Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-27)Using Apple s 2015 published list of supplier companies and their subsidiaries, this paper analyses how one of the world s most significant lead technology companies and its network of core and non-core suppliers have ... -
China's increasing participation in ICT's global value chain: A firm level analysis
(Elsevier, 2015-07-07)This paper synthesises evidence from international trade data of China-based ICT companies in order to map their involvement in the ICT global value chain (GVC). The ICT GVC is divided into three types of companies: Own ... -
Closing the neoliberal gap: risk and regulation in the long war of securitization
(Wiley, 2010)When US military commanders refer today to the “long war”, they could more instructively refer to the “long war of securitization”, involving both practices of war and reconstruction that have always been based on a ... -
Cnámh na seisce: crapadh na fearúlachta i ndánta Mháirtín Uí Dhireáin
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Comment on ‘Was Scotland deglaciated during the Younger Dryas?’ by Small and Fabel (2016)
(Elsevier, 2016-10-04)The course of climatic events in Scotland and the broader North Atlantic region during the glacial termination has important implications for our understanding of the causes and mechanisms of abrupt climate change but ... -
Comments on marine litter in oceans, seas and beaches: Characteristics and impacts
(JSciMed Central, 2015-06-11)Abstract Marine litter is observed along shorelines, pelagic, benthic marine and lake systems all around the globe. On beaches, litter creates aesthetic and related economic problems because a clean beach is one of the ... -
A comparative archaeological review of the late prehistoric 'royal site' of Rathcroghan
(Geography Publications, 2018)[No abstract available]