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The role of telematics in integrating Ireland into Europe's information society
(Taylor & Francis, 2002)
This article is an evaluation of Ireland’s participation in the Telematics Applications Programme (TAP), which was part of the European Commission’s Fourth Framework Programme for the period 1994–1998. TAP was primarily ...
How well are Europe's rural businesses connected to the digital economy?
(Taylor and Francis, 2004-09)
As economic activity becomes increasingly globalized, partly by means of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), one of the key expectations of European policy-makers was that businesses in rural regions, ...
Stakeholder perceptions of recreational and management impacts on protected coastal dune systems: A comparison of three European countries
(2013)
Coastal dune systems are particularly susceptible to destabilisation
through recreational pressure and because of this, conflicts frequently arise
between those who want to use the dunes for recreational purposes and ...
Irelands foreign-owned technology sector: evolving towards sustainability?
(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 ...
Wireless Valley, Silicon Wadi and Digital Island - Helsinki, Tel Aviv and Dublin and the new economy GPN
(Elsevier, 2004-06)
Hyper-capitalism in global information and communication technology (ICT) markets during the late 1990s created a new global production network, shaped by multinational corporations, international capital flows, and a ...
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 ...