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Mediterranean sea surface temperatures and planktonic foraminifera palaeoecology during short-term climate oscillations of the Late Pleistocene
(2022-03-30)The Mediterranean is a semi-enclosed sea, ideally located for recording and amplifying global climate signals. Heinrich Stadial 1 (HS1), the Bølling-Allerød (BA) and Younger Dryas (YD) are periods of extreme climatic change ... -
Metalliferous Mine Waste in West Cornwall: The Implications for Coastal Management
(Samara Publishing Ltd, 1996)Metalliferous mining has taken place in Cornwall since the Bronze Age. Copper production in southwest England peaked at 15,255 tonnes of metal in 1860, while c. 12,794 tonnes of tin metal represented its peak production ... -
My school, your school, our school: celebrating the transformation of a primary school into a community learning centre, 1985-2005
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Natural capital: an inventory of Irish lakes
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 2018)Lakes are important components of our landscape and along with networks of rivers and streams provide a range of important ecosystem services and natural capital. Estimates of lake numbers, particularly small lakes, have ... -
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 ... -
Neo- and palaeolimnological investigations in a humic and a clear water lake in the west of Ireland
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)Surface waters draining peat catchments often have a characteristic brown colour due to the presence of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) compounds. A rise in DOC concentrations has been documented in rivers and lakes in ... -
Non-mineralised discoidal fossils from the Ordovician Bardahessiagh formation, Co. Tyrone, Ireland
(Royal Irish Academy, 2010)Four non-mineralised fossils from the Ordovician Bardahessiagh Formation, near Pomeroy, Co. Tyrone, have been examined for the first time following their recovery from a temporary trench dug in 1992, and are here described ... -
A palaeoecological analysis of late quaternary sapropels from the Mediterranean Ridge
(2020-12-18)A PALAEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LATE QUATERNARY SAPROPELS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN RIDGE By Darren Barry The sedimentary sequences of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea are interspersed by blackcoloured, organic rich ... -
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 ... -
Past, current and future interactions between pressures, chemical status and biological quality elements for lakes in contrasting catchments in Ireland (ILLUMINATE)
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Planktonic foraminiferal response to the Last Glacial Termination and their application to Holocene biostratigraphy in the western Mediterranean sea
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)This research presents the planktonic foraminiferal assemblage variation of four western Mediterranean Sea cores since the Last Glacial Termination. The Holocene epoch represents the current interglacial since the Last ... -
Poor People or Poor Place? Urban Deprivation in Southill East, Limerick City
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The possibility of love: an inter-disciplinary analysis
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2008)The aim of this thesis is to address the question of love’s possibility as it is explored in a selection of literature from the disciplines of philosophy, psychoanalysis and poetry. The works of nine authors, selected from ... -
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 ... -
The reclamation of the Shannon Estuary inter-tidal flats: A case study of the Clare Slobland Reclamation Company.
(The Geographical Society of Ireland, 2005)Extensive reclamation of the sloblands in the Shannon estuary have been under- taken over hundreds of years but particularly in the mid to late 1800s. There is extensive documentary evidence of the various reclamation ... -
Rediscovering our Regions
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Regional and local development in Ireland – the potential of LEADER partnerships to provide municipal government
(Lex Localis- Institute of local government and public procurement Maribor., 2009)Emerging economic and social challenges prompted EU and national authorities to initiate and support localised or area-based partnership approaches to development. Such approaches involve enabling representatives froth the ... -
Regionalisation and the Geography of Poverty
(Poverty Today, 1999-04)There are been considerable debate on regionalisation since the Government's decision to divide the country into two regions to maximize EU structural aid and the subsequent EU decision to confer Objective 1 status on a ... -
Research Capacity Building for Development: Resources for Higher Education Institutions.
(TSO Ireland., 2010)Research Capacity Building for Development may be defined as the planned improvement of the capacity and competency of the Higher Education sector to conduct research that contributes to the alleviation of poverty. The ... -
The role of Palaeolimnology in implementing the water framework directive in Ireland
(Royal Irish Academy, 2009)The EU Water Framework Directive has created research opportunities and challenges for water-quality managers and palaeolimnologists alike. Opportunities have arisen through increased attention to water-quality issues, ...