The city of Dublin has experienced rapid growth over the last 15 years, much of it based on knowledge-intensive industries. This report examines the growth of Dublin and assesses the progress Dublin has made towards becoming ...
The study examines objective indicators associated with quality of life in Ireland. As noted above, these include indicators of environmental quality, income, house prices, health, education and crime. The analysis then ...
Indices ranking the quality of life in cities based on climatic, environmental and urban conditions have a long tradition in the hedonic literature. In this paper we propose an alternative set of indices based on subjective ...
In the last decade, the ‘Celtic Tiger’ economy grew at a record rate for a developed country.Nevertheless, there has been much concern regarding the implications of the pace of economic growth for localised environmental ...