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Supporting enterprise development in rural areas
(Teagasc, 2014)
There are many types of rural areas – each with their own distinctive development needs and resource potentials. Consequently, enterprise development strategies need to avoid a ‘one size fits all approach,’ and must take ...
Environmental Justice, Childhood Deprivation and Urban Regeneration.
(Royal Irish Academy, 2014)
The notion of environmental justice is connected to the ways in which the goods (and conversely the 'bads') of society are distributed, both socially and spatially. The concept has been most strongly developed in the US, ...
Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction in Galway Bay, a shallow coastal embayment along Ireland’s North-East Atlantic margin
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)
Coastal environments are highly dynamic and complicated systems that vary spatially and temporally over a range of timescales. This study explores the paleoenvironmental changes recorded in sediment cores taken from Galway ...
Cryptic disc structures resembling Ediacaran discoidal fossils from the lower Silurian Hellefjord Schist, Arctic Norway
(Public Library of Science, 2016)
The Hellefjord Schist, a volcaniclastic psammite-pelite formation in the Caledonides of Arctic Norway contains discoidal impressions and apparent tube casts that share morphological and taphonomic similarities to Neoproterozoic ...
Communities, collaboration, cohesion and centralization: contemporary insights from rural Ireland
(St.John's, Newfound and Labrador, 2015)
The Republic of Ireland’s recent experience of profound economic, social, cultural, and political change and its remarkable journey from relative poverty to boom and then bust have been well documented. While much of the ...
The palaeolimnology of Lough Murree, a brackish lake in The Burren, Ireland
(Royal Irish Academy, 2013)
Lough Murree, a rock/karst barrier lagoon, is superficially isolated from the sea and seasonal variations in lake water level reflect precipitation and groundwater variation. Lake salinity influenced by subsurface saline ...
An assessment of algal biodiversity and water quality in Loughs Atedaun, Cullaun and Inchiquin, three lakes on the river Fergus.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)
This study uses limnological techniques and numerical methods to examine the periphyton and phytoplankton assemblages of Lough Atedaun, Cullaun and Inchiquin. Monthly and seasonal variations in periphyton and phytoplankton ...
Rural restructuring and rural in-migration patterns in Ireland
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
In recent decades, the rural economic base in Ireland, similar to that of other developed countries across the globe, has witnessed a period of significant structural change, with academic literature coining the term rural ...
Public Health & Housing in Limerick City 1850 -1935 - A Geographical Analysis
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
While the industrial era was underway in Europe during the nineteenth century, Ireland was also faced with the issues of epidemic disease and slum housing. Most of the research undertaken to date has focused on the ...