Ireland's Green Opportunity

Ireland's Green Opportunity
Author: Peter Brennan
Publisher: Orpen Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2017-01-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1871305756

Ireland’s Green Opportunity: Driving Investment in a Low-Carbon Economy provides the first-ever overview of the green economy from an Irish perspective. Identifies business opportunities in all the main sub-sectors that comprise the green economy.Looks at export opportunities and trends in the UK, US and other major markets.Is an information source for project promoters, investors and employees.Covers the key policies that are driving the low-carbon agenda. For example, the science, economics and politics of climate change are covered by way of background, as are issues such as sustainability and the EU’s low-carbon strategy. Ireland will be responding to these ‘game changing’ issues over the coming period. Ireland’s Green Opportunity is therefore designed to help stimulate debate about our low-carbon strategy, while raising awareness about the business opportunities that will arise domestically and in export markets. Peer reviewed by eight of Ireland’s leading experts in climate change and the green economy, this groundbreaking book will be of interest to students, businesspeople and policymakers.

Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries

Sustainable Politics and the Crisis of the Peripheries
Author: Liam Leonard
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2011-11-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 085724762X

Examines the impact of the economic crisis on peripheral European states such as Ireland and Greece. This book focuses on governance, sustainable politics and environmental policies, within the context of accelerated growth and the subsequent economic downturn. It also examines issues of governance and politics within these peripheral states.

Northern Ireland's Lost Opportunity

Northern Ireland's Lost Opportunity
Author: Tony Novosel
Publisher: Pluto Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780745333106

Northern Ireland's Lost Opportunity is a unique in-depth investigation into working-class Loyalism in Northern Ireland as represented by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the Red Hand Commando (RHC) and their political allies.In an unorthodox account, Tony Novosel argues that these groups, seen as implacable enemies by Republicans and the left, did develop a political analysis of the Northern Ireland conflict in the 1970s which involved a compromise peace with all political parties and warring factions – something that historians and writers have largely ignored. Distinctive, deeply informed and provocative, Northern Ireland's Lost Opportunity is the first study to focus not on the violent actions of the UVF/RHC but on their political vision and program which, Novosel argues, included the potential for a viable peace based on compromise with all groups, including the Irish Republican Army.

The implementation of environmental policy in Ireland

The implementation of environmental policy in Ireland
Author: Bernadette Connaughton
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-05-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526127571

This book explores the response of Ireland’s political-administrative system to the implementation of environmental directives in the cases of waste management, water reform and biodiversity. Ireland represents the implementation challenges of a small EU member state with a weak background in environmental governance, and has struggled to adapt to the complexities of enforcing environmental rules. Using a theoretical framework inspired by traditional implementation analysis and insights from the Europeanisation literature, the book traces the implementation process in three directives. The main conclusion of this study is that Ireland’s implementation performance in waste management, water and nature conservation is influenced by the low issue salience of environmental policy and the need to overcome structural problems in the public administration system to give effect to EU legislation.

Earth First:Anti-Road Movement

Earth First:Anti-Road Movement
Author: Derek Wall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013-10-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1135117594

First published in 1999. Detailed accounts of major ant-road campaigns, both in the UK and internationally, are included, describing confrontations at Twyford, Newbury, Glasgow and the Autobahn in Germany, as well as information on the globalisation of Earth First!, with details of protests in Australia, Ireland, Germany, France, Holland, Eastern Europe and North America. Earth Fist! and the Anti-Roads Movement traces the origins of the movement and the history of anti-roads activism in Britain since the 1880s. Showing how green social and political theory can be linked to practical struggles for environmental and social change, Derek Wall investigates key topics of political and sociological interest.

OECD Urban Studies The Circular Economy in Ireland

OECD Urban Studies The Circular Economy in Ireland
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2022-04-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9264332421

Ireland is at a turning point for the transition to a circular economy. The 2022 Whole of Government Circular Economy Strategy provides the policy framework for the circular economy in the country, and the forthcoming Circular Economy Bill is expected to strengthen waste and circular economy legislation.

University Partnerships for International Development

University Partnerships for International Development
Author: Barbara Cozza
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2016-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1786353016

This volume examines the diverse ways in which universities and colleges around the world are partnering and collaborating with other institutions to fulfill their missions and visions.

Nature in Ireland

Nature in Ireland
Author: John Wilson Foster
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 702
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780773518179

How has Irish nature been studied? How has it been expressed in literature and popular culture? How has it influenced, and been influenced by, political, economic, and social change? These long-neglected questions are pursued in Nature in Ireland, a pioneering collection of original essays by leading naturalists, science writers, and cultural historians who bring us from the geological prehistory of Ireland to the environmental threats of the late twentieth century.