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The Future Is Urban, Where ‘Up Mayo’ Politics Just Won’T Do, Lorcan Sirr, Conor Skehan
The Future Is Urban, Where ‘Up Mayo’ Politics Just Won’T Do, Lorcan Sirr, Conor Skehan
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Energy-Related Carbon Emissions In Ireland: Scenarios To 2020, Tadhg O'Mahony
Energy-Related Carbon Emissions In Ireland: Scenarios To 2020, Tadhg O'Mahony
Doctoral
The consumption of energy and related carbon emissions are a development challenge requiring analysis and policy insights. Current analysis of future change in Ireland relies on quantitative point forecasts within which accuracy is difficult to achieve. A scenario analysis approach has often been applied with the longer term but is also useful on shorter time-scales. This research applied a combination of decomposition analysis and scenario analysis to identify and analyse the driving forces of change in Ireland historically from 1990-2007 and in the future to 2020. The historical decomposition used the LMDI I technique and was further quantified to 2020 …
Ghost Estates Will Haunt Us For Years, Lorcan Sirr
Development Of A Framework For The Assessment Of The Role And Impact Of Technology On The Public Procurement Process: An Irish Health Sector Study, Paul Davis
Doctoral
This thesis sets out to examine how the role and impact of technology, in the context of the public procurement process, can be assessed by addressing it as a single bounded structural entity. The thesis specifically examines the procurement process in the Irish Health Sector. This thesis takes the view that context for the procurement process is critical and that adopting a structuration approach to the examination of the process allows for a greater understanding of the role of technology. The thesis is built around a thematic structure which examines the changing relationship between information technology systems and organisational structure. …
A Doctoral Thesis Examining Change In A Hei In Ireland: Changing Universities And The Response Of Academics To Change In The Dublin Institute Of Technology, Kevin Kelly
Books/Book chapters
This is doctoral thesis undertaken by an experienced academic in the Engineering Faculty of a Higher Education Institute in Ireland. It examines the demand for universities to change in response to a fast changing external environment. This research explores how stakeholders are responding to the demands for change and how a bureaucratic organisation is attempting to become more responsive and innovative.
There's More To Planning Than Coloured Maps, Lorcan Sirr
There's More To Planning Than Coloured Maps, Lorcan Sirr
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