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The event of space: geographic allusions in the phenomenological tradition
(SAGE Publications, 1998-02)
n this essay I analyse the role of space in key texts belonging to the tradition of phenomenology. Starting from the assumption that phenomenology is uniquely positioned to answer the epistemological challenges posed by ...
The moral dimension of third world development
(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 ...
Low growth, falling competitiveness and high unemployment as Europe approaches the 21st century
(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 ...
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 ...
Beyond economics: redefining development
(De Gruyter Open, 1992)
Since the short-lived interlude of impressive growth and prosperity
in the 1970s, the dual scourges of involuntary emigration and high
unemployment have returned to plague Irish society. Having
increasingly become part ...
Economic well-being in the Ballymote rural area: myth and reality
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1996)
Despite the many negative indicators such as falling population and high
emigration which are characteristic of the Northwest, the town of
Ballymote appears to be booming. In explaining this apparent contradiction,
...
Impact of crime on the rural elderly
(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 ...
Exploiting information and communication technologies for rural development
(Elsevier, 1992-07)
This paper examines how information technology (IT) might be exploited to promote rural development; it also considers how IT impacts on the rural periphery. The appropriate adaptation of this technology for indigenous ...
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, ...
The ideology of population control in the UN draft plan for Cairo
(Springer, 1994-09)
This paper examines the influence of population control ideology on the draft plan for the UN Cairo Conference on Population and Development. It is argued that this draft plan can only be fully understood in the context ...