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Impact of crime on the rural elderly
Breen, E.; Fogarty, G; Burke, G.; Grimes, Seamus (Irish Medical Organisation, 1990-03)Two hundred and seven persons over 65 years of age were interviewed to determine the impact of crime on their lives. The setting was during a much publicised series of assaults on the rural elderly in their homes. Seventy ... -
Imperial Geopolitics
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Implications of China's on-going dependence on foreign technology
Grimes, Seamus; Sun, Yutao (Elsevier, 2014-05-04)This paper examines the on-going high level of dependency of China's economy on foreign sources of technology during the period since accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Because this dependency is a major cause ... -
Interview with Séamus Grimes, Emeritus Professor, NUI Galway, Ireland
Grimes, Seamus (IDATE DigiWorld, 2017)[No abstract available} -
Irelands foreign-owned technology sector: evolving towards sustainability?
Grimes, Seamus; Collins, Patrick (Wiley, 2008)For some, Ireland¿s pursuit of an exogenous-led development model has proved to be the cornerstone of recent economic success. Others point to recent high-profile closures and argue that foreign-owned operations are attracted ... -
Lessons in American Geopolitik: Kaplan and the Return of Spatial Absolutism
Morrissey, John (2009) -
Low growth, falling competitiveness and high unemployment as Europe approaches the 21st century
Grimes, Seamus (De Gruyter Open, 1994)The European Council, at its meeting in Copenhagen in June 1993, reaffirmed the growth initiatives endorsed in Edinburgh the previous December and at the ECOFIN meeting in April 1993. The conclusions of the European Council ... -
The migration link between Cois Fharraige and Portland, Maine, 1880s to 1920s
Grimes, Seamus; Connolly, Michael (Geographical Society of Ireland, 1989)From the 1880s onwards, the west coast of Ireland — particularly the Congested Districts — formed a major source area of emigration to North America. This paper focuses on part of that outflow from Cois Fharraige. west of ... -
The moral dimension of third world development
Grimes, Seamus (Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1997)The 1987 Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis is a most remarkable statement on the problem of development, particularly in relation to the Third World. While following the tradition of the social ... -
Non-agricultural employment in northwestern Ireland: a peripheral region in the 1970s
Grimes, Seamus (Geographical Society of Ireland, 1987)Considerable spatial variation characterized the pattern of return migration and subsequent house construction during the 1970s in the northwest. Ireland's poorest and most peripheral region. Underlying this pattern of ... -
Overview of opportunities offered by Information Society Technologies (IST) for European peripheral areas
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Performing marginal space: film, topology and the Petite Ceinture in Paris
Strohmayer, Ulf; Core, Jipé (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 ... -
Planning in/for/with the Public
Strohmayer, Ulf (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
Morrissey, John (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 ... -
Reconsidering the exclusion of metaphysics in human geography
Grimes, Seamus (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, ... -
School choice and school catchment: Post‐primary education in Galway city
Grimes, Seamus (Taylor & Francis, 1984)While research to date at the national level has adequately illustrated the nature and extent of class bias in Irish education, there has been little attempt to examine the spatial organisation of the system at the local ... -
Social spatiality: some rudimentary thoughts on the epistemology of Benno Werlen
Strohmayer, Ulf (Copernicus Publications, 2014)Benno Werlen requires no introduction to readers of Geographica Helvetica: arguably the most internationally resonating of names amongst Swiss human geographers writing today, the Jena-based social geographer has not ... -
Spatio-temporal evolution of urban innovation structure based on zip code geodatabase: An empirical study from Shanghai and Beijing
Duan, Dezhong; Du, Debin; Liu, Chengliang; Grimes, Seamus (Springer Verlag, 2016-11-11)In today's world, the innovation of science and technology has become the key support for improving comprehensive national strength and changing the mode of social production and lifestyle. The country that possesses ... -
Structure and event, networks and nodes in human geography: the 1960s revisited
Strohmayer, Ulf (Copernicus Publications, 2013-05-30)In search of transnational scholarship and languages within human geography, the so-called “Quantitative Revolution” of the 1960s arguably holds considerable pride of place. More than previous innovations within geography, ... -
The Sydney Irish: a hidden ethnic group
Grimes, Seamus (Geographical Society of Ireland, 1988)The relative position of the Irish immigrant population in Australia has been radically transformed during the present century, from being the largest non-British ethnic group to one of the smallest immigrant minorities. ...