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Participative critical enquiry in graduate field-based learning
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-10-09)This paper outlines a critical pedagogic approach to field-based learning (FBL) at graduate level. Drawing on student experience stemming from a FBL module and as part of an MA programme in Environment, Society and ... -
Performing marginal space: film, topology and the Petite Ceinture in Paris
(Liminalities, 2012-09)Urban scholars have long accepted that analysing and understanding urban realities involves many routes: from the repertoire associated with social scientific urban studies to the more essayistic, figurative approaches ... -
Placing Ireland's transition to a knowledge economy within a global context
(Edward Elgar, 2005)Throughout most of the 20th century the Republic of Ireland suffered from persistently high unemployment and chronic emigration and as a result employment creation drove industrial policy. During a period of rapid growth ... -
Planetary precarity and 'More-Than-Human Security' : The securitization challenge in the aftermath of COVID-19
(Librello, 2021-07-09)COVID-19 has elevated anew the import of holistically conceiving human-environmental well-being and tackling the overarching precarities of our ecologies, societies and public health in strategies of securitization. This ... -
Planning for change: Coastal management and climate adaptation in Derrynane, Co. Kerry
(OPW Ireland, 2023)This report details the results of a community participatory workshop in Derrynane, Co. Kerry during April 2022. The workshop assessed the perception of the participants to coastal management practices in their area ... -
Planning in/for/with the Public
(Cogitatio Press, 2016-03-18)Urban planning in general, and discursively motivated practices attaching to urban form in particular, are beholden in many ways to notions of a ‘public’. In fact, it would not be an exaggeration to say that urban ... -
Podcast Steering of Independent Learning in Higher Education
(2012)Podcasting in higher education is a relatively new development that emerged mainstream in the latter part of the last decade (Stoerger, 2006; Salmon and Edirisingha, 2008). Since then, academics have variously begun to ... -
Population change in the Republic of Ireland 1981-1991: trends and spatial patterns
(Universite de Lille I (Sciences et Technologies), 1992)Demographic trends in the Republic of Ireland have gradually moved closer to Western European norms during the past two decades. Birth rates have continued to fall and internal migration flows have become diversified. ... -
Quality Irish regional products and services: their promotion and marketing
(Social Sciences Research Centre, National University of Ireland, Galway and Teagasc Agricultural and Food Development Authority, 2004)As part of an ongoing response to the 1992 reform of the CAP and the 1993 GATT agreement, the European Commission (EC) provided support for research on the development of new markets, products and processes for agricultural ... -
Quantification of biofilm build-up in filters when intermittently loaded with low-strength synthetic wastewater
(2011)Accumulation of particulate matter and microorganisms present in wastewater as biofilm on the surface of filters can lead to clogging of the media. If clogging of filters occurs, they need to be temporarily decommissioned ... -
Reconsidering the exclusion of metaphysics in human geography
(Fabrizio Serra Editore, 1997-05)From its beginning as a systematic branch of knowledge, human geography was strongly influenced by developments in the other branches of the social sciences. Once a predominantly descriptive and ideographic discipline, ... -
Reducing residential carbon emissions in Ireland: Challenges and policy responses
(Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019-06-08)Carbon emissions from the residential sector in Ireland are higher than the European average and are rising. This is a concern in a country already struggling to meet its agreed climate targets. In this chapter, the authors ... -
Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-07)Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has in ... -
Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university
(Routledge, 2017-09-13)Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has ... -
Regional imagery and Irish tourism promotion
(BELGEO, 1999)Regional images may be defined as representations of places which consist of one or more of a variety of elements which may include people, landscapes, flora or animals (Gold and Ward, 1994; Kneafsey, 1997). Sound, when ... -
Relationships between local governance and local government and the role of the state: evidence from the Leader programme in Ireland
(Presse Universitaires de Rennes PUR, 2016)Central states allocated responsibility for local development actions to a range of private, community and voluntary organisations in many European countries, over the past three decades. This phenomenon has been viewed ... -
Relative timing of last glacial maximum and late-glacial events in the central tropical Andes
(Elsevier, 2009-06-18)Whether or not tropical climate fluctuated in synchrony with global events during the Late Pleistocene is a key problem in climate research. However, the timing of past climate changes in the tropics remains controversial, ... -
A role for quality rural tourism services in rural development? Evidence from the Republic of Ireland
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The role of headwater wetlands in altering stream flow and chemistry in a Maine, USA catchment
(Wiley for American Water Resources Association, 2011-03-28)Headwater wetlands, including hillside seeps, may contribute to downstream systems disproportionately to their relatively small size. We quantified the hydrology and chemistry of headwater wetlands in a central Maine, ...