Browsing by Subject "Geography"
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Along the way: a multi-method examination of tourism, identity, and community values on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way
(NUI Galway, 2023-01-04)Background Marine and coastal tourism plays an indisputably crucial role in global tourism, yet there remains a dearth of academic attention afforded to coastal tourism trails in the Irish context. Cultural aspects of ... -
A booming country- a booming countryside? The Celtic Tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas
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Challenges for coastal management in Ireland. Case study: The Maharees, Castlegregory, County Kerry
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Chironomid response to prehistoric farming in northwest Ireland
(2017-12-20)This article-based PhD thesis explored the utility and performance of chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) autecology in the investigation of prehistoric farming impacts on freshwater lake systems. Chironomid subfossils, ... -
Closing the neoliberal gap: risk and regulation in the long war of securitization
(Wiley, 2010)When US military commanders refer today to the “long war”, they could more instructively refer to the “long war of securitization”, involving both practices of war and reconstruction that have always been based on a ... -
The construction of legitimacy in nature conservation: knowledge, power and participation in the regulation of Irish raised bogs under the European Habitats Directive
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-26)A network of 53 Irish raised bogs were designated as Special Areas of Conservation (SAC) under the European Union (EU) Habitats Directive in the 1990s. Whilst the purpose of the designation is to protect unique habitats, ... -
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 ... -
Creating opportunities for engagement: Exploring the relationship between the Burren landscape, civil society and community
(NUI Galway, 2022-01-27)Research has demonstrated a need to explore the significant contribution communities make towards the conservation and management of some of our most protected landscapes. Due to significant budgetary cuts within the ... -
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 ... -
Development of long-term daily maximum and minimum air temperature series and assessment of past extreme air temperature events in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2021-05-06)Despite the rich heritage of meteorological observations registered in Ireland, prior to this PhD research, numerous historical daily air temperature records remained only in paper data sources across multiple archives, ... -
Development of mid-infrared spectroscopic methods for the determination of soil chemical quality in tillage fields
(NUI Galway, 2021-04-30)Healthy soils are the foundation for a prosperous future by providing nutrition, clean water, and the basis for all biodiversity on land. But soil health is threatened by soil degradation and climate change. To improve ... -
Energy biographies: Exploring the intersections between lives, practices and contexts
(2017-02)Individual consumption and behaviour change has become a key area of attention in European and Irish sustainable development policy. To date, policy approaches to consumption have been informed by individualised models of ... -
An exploration of the European landscape convention as a guiding framework for multi-scalar landscape governance in the territories of Catalonia (Spain) and the Republic of Ireland
(2016-05-13)The spatial dimensions of many social, economic and environmental challenges facing 21st century societies can be addressed through the idea of landscape. Scholars working in the area of environmental and landscape change ... -
Exploring the human dynamics affecting the intergenerational family farm transfer process in later life: A roadmap for future policy
(2017-11-26)Intergenerational family farm transfer is increasingly viewed as crucial to the survival, continuity and future prosperity of the agricultural sector, traditional family farm model and broader sustainability of rural ... -
Field characterization of three-dimensional lee-side airflow patterns under offshore winds at a beach-dune system
(American Geophysical Union, 2013-05-22)Characterization of three-dimensional (3D) airflow remains elusive within a variety of environments and is particularly challenging over complex dune topography. Previous work examining airflow over and in the lee of dunes ... -
Field-based learning: the challenge of practising participatory knowledge
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-05-14)In 2009, Geography at National University of Ireland, Galway, launched a new taught master's programme, the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The vision for the programme was to engage students in the analysis ... -
Fitting in whilst standing out: Fostering enterprise development among Irish rural women
(NUI Galway, 2021-02-17)Policymakers and academics have come to consider rural entrepreneurship as a key source of eco-nomic and social development. Over the last decade, as potential creators of new businesses, wom-en have been recognised as ... -
The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror: US Central Command and the war in Iraq
(Routledge, 2009)[No abstract available]