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How are our kids? Experience and Needs of Children and families in Limerick City with a particular emphasis on Limerick Regeneration Areas.
(Mary Immaculate College, IKOS Ltd & Limerick City Children's Services Commitee(CSC), 2011)
Shared services across local government – sharing international experiences
(International Centre for Local and Regional Development, 2012)
Summary: The shared services agenda has become a priority for both administrations on the island of Ireland. This report explores international experiences offering insights for policymakers and practitioners in central ...
Collaborative communities: co-operation among rural municipalities – insights from Spain
(International Centre for Local and Regional Development, 2011)
Summary: The report considers the Mancomunidades in Spain, voluntary associations of municipalities who cooperate among themselves to deliver services in an effective and cost-efficient manner.
Gaeltacht uíbh ráthaigh – prófíl dhéimeagrafach agus socheacnamaíochta socio-economic and demographic profile
(Údarás na Gaeltachta, 2017)
Mary Immaculate College and Limerick Institute of Technology are pleased to present this report to Comhchoiste Uíbh Ráthaigh Teo and Údarás na Gaeltachta. The Report, which provides a demographic and socio-economic profile ...
A Neighbourhood-level View of Area-Based Interventions
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)
The rapid increase in the numbers and ranges of state-funded area-based interventions (ABIs) in recent years has been documented in Chapter 6. These interventions and the associated fundings streams are mixed and matched ...
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, ...
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 ...