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Urban design and civic spaces: nature at the Parc des Buttes-Chaumont in Paris
(SAGE Publications, 2006-10)
Transcending the dualism between 'nature' and 'culture' has been one of the central aims of geographical knowledge during the last decade or so. The present paper adds to this growing body of literature by focusing on the ...
Foredune accretion under offshore winds
(Elsevier, 2007)
Experiments carried out at Magilligan Strand on the north coast of Ireland
suggest that topographic steering of offshore winds is an important facet of the aeolian
sediment transport system at this location. A five-day ...
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland
(2005)
In writing about the social and cultural geographies of the past, we frequently reinforce notions of difference by using neatly delineated ethnic terms of reference that often superscribe the complexities of reality on the ...
Geography militant: resistance and the essentialisation of identity in colonial Ireland
(2004)
In recent years, a growing recognition of the interconnections (in addition to the conflicts) between the worlds of the coloniser and the colonised has enabled the construction of an enhanced collection of differentiated ...
Contours of colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the early colonial subject
(2004)
The sixteenth century is critical to our reading of Ireland's subsequent colonial and indeed postcolonial geographies, yet has frequently evaded considered scrutiny for a variety of reasons, including the deficiencies of ...
Local governance and sustainable rural development: Ireland's experience in an EU context
(Univerza v Mariboru, Filozofska Fakulteta, 2009)
This paper discusses the role of local governance partnerships in promoting sustainable rural
development with reference to EU policy over the past two decades. Ireland’s experience is
presented as an example. From the ...
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, ...