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Agricultural policy and land tenure in an Irish marginal country
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 1988)This paper has a twofold objective. Firstly, recent land policy both at EEC and Irish government levels is evaluated from the perspective of the small family farm in County Lcitrim. one of Ireland's most marginal farming ... -
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 ... -
Big Pharma's internationalization of R&D to China
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-04-18)China's increasing integration into the global pharmaceutical value chain is occurring at a time when big pharma's traditional R&D model has entered a period of crisis, and when China faces significant challenges in providing ... -
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 ... -
China's increasing participation in ICT's global value chain: A firm level analysis
(Elsevier, 2015-07-07)This paper synthesises evidence from international trade data of China-based ICT companies in order to map their involvement in the ICT global value chain (GVC). The ICT GVC is divided into three types of companies: Own ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Cost competitive places: shifting fortunes and the closure of Dell's manufacturing facility in Ireland
(2011)In the early days of 2009 the city of Limerick in the mid-west region of Ireland was dealt a massive blow by the PC manufacturer Dell. After months, if not years, of speculation, the company had finally decided to move all ... -
Cultural Geographies of the Contact Zone
(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 ... -
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 ... -
The distribution of economic well-being within the Northwest region
(De Gruyter Open, 1989)For many years, geographers have concerned themselves with the spatial dimension of economic development and with the fact that the pattern of development, whether it occurs under capitalist or socialist regimes, tends ... -
Dynamics of sediment storage and release on aeolian dune slip faces: A field study in Jericoacoara, Brazil
(Journal of Geophysical Research, 2015-09-25)Sediment transport on the lee sides of aeolian dunes involves a combination of grain-fall deposition on the upper portion of the slip face until a critical angle is exceeded, transport of a portion of those sediments down ... -
The emerging dynamic structure of national innovation studies: a bibliometric analysis
(Springer Verlag, 2016-10-26)The state is still the significant unit for innovative studies during the age of R&D globalization and innovation regionalization. Using the bibliometric method, this paper attempts to provide a comprehensive picture of ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ...