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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-04)The ramifications of the Little Ice Age, a period of cooling temperatures straddling several centuries in northwestern Europe, reach far beyond meteorology into economic, political, and cultural history. The LIA has spawned ...
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(Wiley, 2012)Few terrestrial Holocene climate records exist from Southeastern Europe despite its important geographic position as a transitional climatic zone between the Mediterranean and mainland continental Europe. In this study we ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04-16)We investigate by how much the Little Ice Age reduced the harvests on which pre-industrial Europeans relied for survival. We find that weather strongly affected crop yields, but can find little evidence that western ...
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(Elsevier, 2011-12)Oxygen isotope data for well dated Holocene speleothems from Europe have been compiled for the first time. The data were analysed at 1 ka time slices through the Holocene by taking averages of 50 year duration. After filtering ...
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(SPIE, 2010-04-13)At present there is a global concern of environmental issues and future energy supplies, for instance global warming and the rapid depletion of fossil fuels. This trepidation has initiated a more critical investigation ...
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(Elsevier, 2011-07)In today’s society there is a vast and in many cases not fully appreciated dependence on electrical power for everyday life. Furthermore, with growing energy and environmental concerns arising due to fossil fuel depletion ...
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(Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 2009-08-03)With growing energy and environmental concerns due to fossil fuel depletion and global warming there is an increasing attention being attracted by alternative and/or renewable sources of power such as biomass, hydropower, ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-04)Did global imbalances cause the financial crisis? A number of influential figures have argued that inflows of foreign capital into the US due to the current account deficit helped to trigger the crisis. This paper argues ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-07)The key result of the so-called “New Trade Theory” is that countries gain from falling trade costs by an increase in the number of varieties available to consumers. Though the number of varieties in a given country rises, ...
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(UCD Dublin European Institute, 2011-05)The economic and financial crisis has discredited the idea of a self-regulating market.Yet, it remains to be seen what measures society will be taking to protect itself against future fallouts of global markets. There is ...