Department of Geography: Recent submissions
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Local government and local economic development: perceptions and experiences of the Local Government (Reform) Act 2014
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)Local government is an important service provider to the people of Ireland. It is also a key component in the democratic structures of the State. However in comparison with other countries, Ireland is seen as highly ... -
Keeping track mapping and tracking vulnerable young people
(The Policy Press, 2001)The notion of social exclusion, and the need for its existence and effects to be addressed and combated by government social policy, has gained great prominence in recent years, as illustrated by the establishment and work ... -
Geographical mobility family impacts
(The Policy Press, 2003)This study examines the family impacts of geographical mobility, with particular emphasis on employer-initiated relocation. It is hoped that the results from this research will add to the understanding of the impacts on ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Limerick after the downturn: contemporary demographic & socio-economic geography of the urban area
(National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, 2014)This is the third in a series of census atlases of Limerick produced over the course of the last decade by the Department of Geography in Mary Immaculate College, under commission by Limerick City Council. The latest version ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Using lake sediment records to examine recent productivity in Lough Gur, Co. Limerick
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)Lough Gur is a small, shallow lake located on limestone bedrock in County Limerick which has been classed as hypereutrophic in recent decades. The lake has no surface inflow and water level is maintained by groundwater and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
My school, your school, our school: celebrating the transformation of a primary school into a community learning centre, 1985-2005
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Construction of total phosphorus (TP) quantitative models based on diatoms and cladocera for the Irish ecoregion using palaeolimnological techniques
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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 ... -
A spatial analysis of the suppliers of nature based tourism in Ireland, insights into the provision of walking tourism on the Sheep’s Head Peninsula, Co. Cork.
(2014)The tourism industry from 2012 to 2022 is expected to grow by an average of 4% annually to constitute 10% of global GDP (US$10 trillion). It is also predicted by 2022, globally, one in every ten jobs (328 million) will ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Divided City: the Geography of Post-Celtic Tiger Limerick
(Cork University Press, 2011)