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(Elsevier, 2011-03-15)The example of peatlands is used to demonstrate the challenges facing the sustainable management of natural resources in situations where the fragility of an environment is not appreciated by all stakeholders. We reveal, ...
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(Elsevier, 2012-10)The threat of climate change has focused attention on those environments with high capacity for carbon storage. Peatlands are one such environment in that they both sequester CO2 from the atmosphere and are also a major ...
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(2012-06)In some parts of Europe, stone wall field boundaries pervade agricultural landscapes, yet despite their prominence there has been very little research into field boundary walls anywhere. However, these anthropogenic ...
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(EDP Sciences and the ISBR (International Society for Biosafety Research), 2010-07-05)While significant progress has been made on the modification of crops for the benefit of producers, the same cannot be said in regards to eliciting the potential impact that these crops may have on the wider landscape and ...
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(2011-09)In establishing effective restoration goals, one of the four key issues of increased attention that Hobbs calls for is in the area of incorporating socio-economic investigations and theories into restoration practice in a ...
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-12)This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household ...
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(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012-11)
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(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-12)The composition of tax revenue in Ireland had changed dramatically over the past decade, with indirect taxes accounting for a large share of total tax revenue. This shift towards indirect taxation more than direct taxation ...
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Does an exercise and incontinence intervention save healthcare costs in a nursing home population? (Blackwell Publishing Limited, 2003)OBJECTIVES:To determine whether an intervention that combines low-intensity exercise and incontinence care offsets some of its costs by reducing the incidence of selected health conditions in nursing home residents. D ...