Browsing Geography (Scholarly Articles) by Title
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Four million patients who failed to attend
(BMJ Publishing Group, 1984-08-18)[No abstract available] -
From foreign technology dependence towards greater innovation autonomy: China's integration into the information and communications technology (ICT) global value chain (GVC)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-03-30)China s integration into the information and communications technology global value chain has taken place as global technology corporations outsourced and offshored an increasing range of functions, including manufacturing, ... -
From invisibility to impact: Recognising the scientific and societal relevance of interdisciplinary sustainability research
(Elsevier, 2017-11-20)Academics are increasingly expected to produce concrete and directly applicable solutions to hard-to-solve 'real world problems' such as poverty, development, and environmental degradation. However, conventional assessments ... -
Geoeconomics in the Long War
(Wiley, 2015-09-15)In Neil Smith's American Empire (2003, University of California Press), he makes the case that the current moment of US global ambition is characterized by a network of imperial power that is exercised in the first place ... -
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 ... -
Geography under threat in Irish second-level education
(Taylor & Francis, 1998)Recent Department of Education recommendations for a revised second-level junior cycle programme in the Republic of Ireland omitted geography from its established position in the core curriculum. This paper describes the ... -
Glacier fluctuations in the southern Peruvian Andes during the late-glacial period, constrained with cosmogenic He-3
(Wiley, 2011-01-19)The occurrence of pronounced climate reversals during the last glacial termination has long been recognised in palaeoclimate records from both hemispheres and from high to low latitudes. Accurate constraint of both the ... -
Governing the academic subject: Foucault, governmentality and the performing university
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-19)Drawing on research conducted at National University of Ireland, Galway, this paper explores how senior managers at an Irish university are seeking to measure and facilitate academic performance in the context of national ... -
Hijacking the 3Ss to ground reflective co-management of beach-dune environments
(Elsevier, 2021-12-23)The global drive to provide the 3Ss (Sun, Sand and Sea) for the benefit of tourists has been a contributory factor in the parallel deterioration of beach-dune habitats on our coasts. In Europe, this has happened at a time ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Imperial Geopolitics
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Implications of China's on-going dependence on foreign technology
(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 ... -
In situ10Be production-rate calibration from a 14C-dated late-glacial moraine belt in Rannoch Moor, central Scottish Highlands
(Elsevier, 2018-11-23)An objective of terrestrial in situ cosmogenic nuclide research is to obtain precise and accurate production-rate estimates on the basis of geological calibration sites from a diverse range of latitudes and altitudes. ... -
Industrial development in Gaeltacht areas - the work of Údarás na Gaeltachta
(Swansea University, Department of Geography, 1983)[No abstract available] -
Interstadial rise and Younger Dryas demise of Scotland's last ice fields
(American Geophysical Union, 2018-04-06)Establishing the atmospheric expression of abrupt climate change during the last glacial termination is key to understanding driving mechanisms. In this paper, we present a new 14C chronology of glacier behavior during ... -
Interview with Séamus Grimes, Emeritus Professor, NUI Galway, Ireland
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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 ...