Analysis and opinion on environmental issues. Updated first of each month.
With deep regrets, as the publisher of irish environment online magazine, I announce the permanent suspension of the publication of the magazine, a one-person …
When we charge ourselves for our use of the environment and public resources, we use them with care. When we allow us ourselves to …
1 Mar 2011Northern Ireland Water underwent prolonged public criticism, after its supply suffered serious stoppages and shortages over the Christmas period. The consensus is that while …
1 Feb 2011The Context The quality of our individual lives depends, in part, on the quality of the community to which we belong, including its physical …
1 Jan 2011As the source of substantial and rapidly growing greenhouse gas emissions, transport must clearly be part of a global agreement to mitigate climate …
1 Dec 2010What do we mean when we talk about biodiversity and what has it got to do with economic policy? Biodiversity is the diversity of …
1 Nov 2010In the current Reports section of this magazine, there is a report on “Landfilling: Waste Not, Want Not,” summarizing the state of landfilling in …
4 Oct 2010In terms that are widely accepted, Integrated Pest Management (IPM) can be defined as an approach to economically manage pest damage with the least …
1 Sep 2010When Frank Convery, then working in the ESRI, began research on environmental economics a quarter a century ago, this was very much a “new” …
1 Aug 2010Introduction Resigning from the Seanad and the Green Party Parliamentary Party in February 2010, Déirdre de Búrca offered a stark assessment of the Green …
1 Jun 2010Google, Corine, Landsat, Spot,GeoEye and Lidar This presentation reviews the implications of the work undertaken for Friends of the Irish Environment in UCC’s Department …
1 May 2010The Problem The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has experienced some negative publicity of late — a few factual errors and some …
1 Apr 2010European seas are emptying of valuable fish – more than 80 percent of assessed fish stocks in EU waters are overfished and 30 percent …
1 Mar 2010Introduction: What is Futurescapes? The way we “do” nature conservation in Ireland and Britain is evolving. For the last century and more, the conservation …
1 Feb 2010Climate change is often portrayed as the greatest problem of the 21st century. Politicians are promising deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. A substantial …
1 Jan 2010In early 2009 the great hope – at least among those who see the climate change threat clearly – was that the Copenhagen climate …
1 Dec 2009Fishing is essentially a pretty simple business: Vessels go to sea, deploy gear, catch fish, sell fish. Wild fish form a hugely important source …
1 Nov 2009Too many hooks and nets are systematically reducing the fish stocks on which we rely for a profitable fishing industry, a reliable food source …
1 Nov 2009We are lucky to live on an island where nature compensates and corrects for the various follies to which our ignorance and greed give …
1 Sep 2009INTRODUCTION Destruction of special sites, decline in farmland birds, industrial pollution, eutrophication of water bodies, illegal waste disposal, atmospheric ozone levels, unconstrained carbon dioxide …
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