Browsing by Subject "Sustainability"
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Achieving nearly zero-energy buildings - A lifecycle assessment approach to retrofitting buildings
(NUI Galway, 2015-04-23)It is now widely recognised in the academic and business worlds that energy efficiency in buildings provides significant environmental and economic opportunities, but also challenges. The building sector offers considerable ... -
Alteration spaces: Charting the sustainability potential of large organizations
(Elsevier, 2021-10-08)Large organizations play a key role in sustainability transitions through their systems of production and consumption and their influence on wider society. Recognizing the uniqueness and complexity of structure-agency ... -
Are Greek budget deficits 'too large'?
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1995-09)We use a residual-based cointegration test suggested by Gregory and Hansen (1992) that allows for the determination of a structural break in the cointegrating vector to test for the sustainability of Greek fiscal deficits ... -
Are the US current account deficits really sustainable?
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 1998-03)We have tested for a long-run relationship between four US export measures and analogous import measures (measured in nominal and real terms, levels and deflated by GNP) in the 1967-1994 period using quarterly data. ... -
Artists as workers in the rural; precarious livelihoods, sustaining rural futures
(Elsevier, 2018-04-13)This paper explores rural-based artists' experiences of achieving sustainable livelihoods in rural localities as part of emerging discussions about the significance of culture and the cultural economy for rural development ... -
The assessment of embodied energy in typical reinforced concrete building structures in Ireland
(2010)This paper demonstrates that by understanding how energy is consumed in the manufacturing of reinforced concrete, designers can significantly reduce the overall embodied energy of structures. Embodied energy of products ... -
At a crossroads: investigating automobility and its implications for local urban transport policy design
(MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 2017-05-05)More people than ever before are living in urban settlements, increasing competition for living space, employment, food, water, and energy. Urbanisation poses many challenges, most notably meeting the basic health and ... -
Business sustainability methodology for European manufacturing SMEs
(IST Press, 2011-06-28)SMEs find it difficult to deal with environmental issues due mainly to their limited resources in terms of money, people and time. Our research also identified other barriers to engaging SMEs in environmental improvement ... -
ConsEnSus: consumption, environment and sustainability
(EPA Ireland, 2015)Sustainable consumption is generally conceived as the use of goods and services that respond to basic needs and bring a better quality of life, while minimising the use of natural resources, toxic materials, and emissions ... -
Consuming distance or (all) consuming work? The case of telework
(Routledge, 2014)The reality of anthropogenic climate change and the consequences for society and environment is of growing concern to many worldwide. Sustainable Development - development which addresses existing human needs while ... -
Curbing The Consumption of Distance? A practice-theoretical investigation of an employer-based mobility management initiative to promote more sustainable commuting
(2013-01-15)A central feature of modern life is the desire and the need to be mobile. The increasing availability of cars during the twentieth century facilitated the rise in individualised, motorised travel in many countries, including ... -
Current Account Deficit Sustainability: A Panel Approach
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2004)In this paper we attempt to examine the issue of sustainability of current account imbalances in eight East Asia countries using the latest developments in nonstationary panel data analysis. The methods of nonstationary ... -
Curriculum development for sustainable civic engagement
(Educational Developers of Ireland Network, 2013)Capacity building both for students and for community partners is an explicit goal for one particular teaching and learning innovation in Irish higher education. In addition to offering the opportunity to apply ... -
Development of a Global Energy Management System for non-energy intensive multi-site industrial organisations: A methodology
(Elsevier, 2017-01-25)For multi-site organisations, informed decision making on capital investment aimed at improving energy performance and cutting carbon emissions, across a global site base, is a complex problem. This work presents the ... -
Development of a global energy management system for the non-energy intensive multi-site manufacturing organisations
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-30)Climate change and energy resource sustainability are both major challenges facing humanity today. Due to their scale, multi-site (and/or multi-national) manufacturing organisations (MMO), are large consumers of energy, ... -
End-of-waste criteria: Helper or hindrance for the circular economy in Ireland?
(School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, University College Dublin, 2022)It is imperative that societies identify and implement mitigation measures to reduce the impact of the climate crisis on the environment, the economy, and human health. A circular economy provides an opportunity to shift ... -
Environmental gains and social losses? Critical reflections on the sustainability potential of telework
(2014)Anthropogenic climate change and its environmenmtal and social consequences are of increasing concern worldwide. Approaches that advocate a 'greening' of current economic and social systems through technological ... -
Examining the legitimation strategies of sustainability-oriented entrepreneurs
(NUI Galway, 2018-03-29)The idea that business plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of our world has grown within the corporate sustainability literature and in global sustainability discourse generally. There is also a growing ... -
Future phosphorus: advancing new '2D' allotropes and growing a sustainable bio economy
(Crop Science Society of America with American Society of Agronomy and Soil Science Society of America, 2019-07-11)With more than 40 countries currently proposing to boost their national bioeconomies, there is no better time for a clarion call for a new bioeconomy, which, at its core, tackles the current disparities and inequalities ... -
Greenhouse gas policies in Ireland 1990 -2012 : Reliance on the land
(14-08-01)This research sought to determine the extent to which national greenhouse gas (GHG) policy relied upon the land, through afforestation, controls on agriculture, and expansion of bioenergy. The implications of this reliance ...