Ireland: Contemp Persp Land Peo

ISBN-13: 9780415052948 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 504 str.

R. Carter; Bill Carter; Bill Carter

Opis

Modern Ireland is beset by economic, social, and environmental problems, in stark contrast with its promoted image as a land of rolling green pastures and a timeless way of life based on a self-sustaining rural economy. North), others are part of general European and world trends. This contemporary study looks at these problems from geographic and environmental resource issues, placing them within their regional, national and international context. crime, rural problems, to retailing tourism, regional development and environmental resource issues, including energy and water resource management.

Spis treści

European economic policies and Ireland, Frank Convery, ; partition, politics and social conflict, Dennis Pringle; Irish population problems, John Coward, University of Ulster, Coleraine; crime in geographical perspective, David Rottman; the historical legacy in modern Ireland, Stephen A. Royle; the problems of rural Ireland, Mary Cawley ; agricultural development, Desmond A. Gillmor ; the new industrialization of Ireland, Barry Brunt; the changing nature of Irish retailing, Tony Parker; transportation, James Killen; Dublin and Austin Smyth ; patterns in Irish tourism, John Pollard; Irish energy - problems and prospects, Palmer Newbould; water and resource management, David Wilcock;resources and management of Irish coastal waters and adjacent coasts, Ibill Carter; air pollution problems in Ireland, John Sweeney; regional development strategies, James A.Walsh;

O autorze

R. W. G. Carter (Author) , A. J. Parker (Author)