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    • Beyond calorie counting: assessing the sustainability of food provided for public consumption 

      Goggins, Gary; Rau, Henrike (Elsevier, 2015-06-19)
      Food consumption outside home is a growing phenomenon that is rapidly gaining in importance in terms of its impact on both consumers and the food system. This paper presents an innovative tool for measuring the sustainability ...
    • Beyond economics: redefining development 

      Grimes, Seamus (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 

      Grimes, Seamus; Miozzo, Marcela (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 ...
    • Book review: Human Incumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine 

      Morrissey, John (SAGE Publications, 2012-11-15)
      In 1860, the Irish nationalist writer John Mitchell avowed that ‘The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine’ (from The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)). The aphorism quickly became ...
    • Causes and consequences of fertility decline 

      Grimes, Seamus (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 ...
    • Challenging practices: experiences from community and individual living lab approaches 

      Matschoss, Kaisa; Fahy, Frances; Rau, Henrike; Backhaus, Julia; Goggins, Gary; Grealis, Eoin; Heiskanen, Eva; Kajoskoskia, Tuija; Laakso, Senja; Apajalahti, Eeva-Lotta; Genus, Audley; Godin, Laurence; Iskandarova, Marfuga; Musch, Annika-Kathrin; Sahakian, Marlyne; Scholl, Christian; Vadovics, Edina; Vasseur, Veronique (Taylor & Francis, 2021-05-20)
      In this article, we examine a change initiative designed to involve households in testing ways to transform two everyday practices heating and doing laundry. The research design included an examination of the challenges ...
    • Challenging social norms to recraft practices: A Living Lab approach to reducing household energy use in eight European countries 

      Sahakian, Marlyne; Rau, Henrike; Grealis, Eoin; Godin, Laurence; Wallenborn, Grégoire; Backhaus, Julia; Friis, Freja; Genus, Audley T.; Goggins, Gary; Heaslip, Eimear; Heiskanen, Eva; Iskandarova, Marfuga; Jensen, Charlotte Louise; Laakso, Senja; Musch, Annika-Katrin; Scholl, Christian; Vadovics, Edina; Vadovics, Kristof; Vasseur, Véronique; Fahy, Frances (Elsevier, 2021-02-10)
      ENERGISE is the first large-scale European effort to reduce household energy use through a change initiative that adopted a ‘living lab’ approach informed by social practice theory. Two challenges were introduced to 306 ...
    • China's emerging role in the global semiconductor value chain 

      Grimes, Seamus; Du, Debin (Elsevier, 2020-04-18)
      The global model of semiconductor development has resulted in an asymmetric and interdependent relationship between China's critical role in semiconductor production and those regions such as the US which control the key ...
    • China's evolving role in Apple's global value chain 

      Grimes, Seamus; Sun, Yutao (Taylor & Francis, 2016-07-27)
      Using Apple s 2015 published list of supplier companies and their subsidiaries, this paper analyses how one of the world s most significant lead technology companies and its network of core and non-core suppliers have ...
    • China's increasing participation in ICT's global value chain: A firm level analysis 

      Sun, Yutao; Grimes, Seamus (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 

      Morrissey, John (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 ...
    • Comment on ‘Was Scotland deglaciated during the Younger Dryas?’ by Small and Fabel (2016) 

      Bromley, Gordon R.M.; Putnam, Aaron E.; Lowell, Thomas V.; Hall, Brenda L.; Schaefer, Joerg M. (Elsevier, 2016-10-04)
      The course of climatic events in Scotland and the broader North Atlantic region during the glacial termination has important implications for our understanding of the causes and mechanisms of abrupt climate change but ...
    • Comments on marine litter in oceans, seas and beaches: Characteristics and impacts 

      Anfuso, G.; Lynch, Kevin; Williams, A.T.; Perales, J.A.; Pereira da Silva, J.A.; Nogueira Mendes, R.; Maanan, M.; Pretti, C.; Pranzini, E.; Winter, C.; Verdejo, E.; Ferreira, M.; Veiga, J. (JSciMed Central, 2015-06-11)
      Abstract Marine litter is observed along shorelines, pelagic, benthic marine and lake systems all around the globe. On beaches, litter creates aesthetic and related economic problems because a clean beach is one of the ...
    • A comprehensive roadmap to 50 years of (Satellite) earth observation resources for the island of Ireland (1972 – 2023) 

      Maguire, Daithí (Geographical Society of Ireland, 2019)
      A comprehensive review of optical (panchromatic, multispectral and hyperspectral) and synthetic aperture radar satellite imagery coverage for terrestrial and near-shore areas of interest on the island of Ireland. The review ...
    • Consideration of coastal risk in the Irish spatial planning process 

      Flannery, Wesley; Lynch, Kevin; Ó Cinnéide, Micheál (Elsevier, 2014-11-29)
      The vulnerability of coastal areas to associated hazards is increasing due to population growth, development pressure and climate change. It is incumbent on coastal governance regimes to address the vulnerability of coastal ...
    • Contours of colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the early colonial subject 

      Morrissey, John (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 

      Grimes, Seamus; Collins, Patrick (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 ...
    • Creating context for corridors of consumption: the case of Ireland 

      Lavelle, Mary Jo; Fahy, Frances (Taylor & Francis, 2021-01-25)
      Global consumption levels are significant contributors to detrimental environmental change and the current climate crisis. Across Ireland, domestic consumption levels have increased dramatically during the past three ...
    • Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland 

      Morrissey, John (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 ...
    • Designing real-world laboratories for the reduction of residential energy use: Articulating theories of change 

      Heiskanen, Eva; Laakso, Senja; Matschoss, Kaisa; Backhaus, Julia; Goggins, Gary; Vadovics, Edina (Oekom Verlag, 2018-01-01)
      Reducing residential energy use and carbon dioxide emissions is a policy concern across Europe. One of the approaches to address this problem, real-world laboratories (RwLs), has recently gained prominence as a means to ...