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Conference Papers (September 2013)

Environmental Citizenship

Trans-disciplinary conversations on transitions to sustainability

The following are extended abstracts for papers presented at the Conference at UCC on 5-6th September 2013.

 

Author/s

Paper Title

Link

Fabio Bacci and Dr Deborah Chapman (BEES)

The Water Framework Directive: opportunities and barriers to sustainable development

EC#1

BacciF

Dr Edmond Byrne (Process & Chemical Engineering)

A role for diversity in achieving sustainability through ecological, social and economic domains

EC#2

Byrne

Niall Dunphy and John Morrissey (Civil & Environmental Engineering)

Environmental Citizenship: the Need for Civic Engagement and Participatory Democracy - The Case of Spatial Planning

EC#4

 

 

Dr John J. Fitzpatrick, Dr Edmond P. Byrne, (Process & Chemical Engineering), Dr Gerard Mullally (Sociology) and Dr John Barry (Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, QUB)

Why won’t we change to a sustainable future?

 

EC#5

Fitzpatrick

Dr Dan Grigoras (Computer Science)

Mobile cloud services as a public utility to all citizens

EC#6

Grigoras

Jonathan Hall, William Brady and Brendan O’Sullivan (MPlan) 

The role of appropriate governance in delivering competitiveness, sustainability and resilience in Metropolitan Cork

EC#7

Brady

 

Dr Kieran Keohane (Sociology)

Sustainable Future Communities: Sociological and Anthropological Insights

EC#8

Keohane

Prof Don Lyons (Geography)

The evolving role of industrial wastes and by-products in contemporary production processes:  A case study of Pennsylvania

EC#9

Lyons

Prof. Michael Narodoslawsky (Process & Particle Engineering, TU Graz), Dr. Ger Mullally (Sociology), Dr. Edmond Byrne (Process & Chemical Engineering) & Mag. Stephan Maier  (Process & Particle Engineering, TU Graz)

Intercultural Comparison of Societal/Social Innovation and Ecological Impact using Relevant Modelling Tools

EC#10

 Maier

Dr Owen McIntyre (Law) & Prof John O'Halloran (Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences)

Towards an Understanding of Ecological “Integrity” under EU Nature Conservation Law: Complementary Legal and Ecological Perspectives

EC#11

McIntyre

Dr Gerard Mullally (Sociology)

Fear and Loading in the Anthropocene: Narratives of Transition and Transformation

EC#12

Mullally

Dr Brian Ó Gallachóir, Dr Paul Deane & Alessandro Chiodi (Environmental Research Institute and School of Engineering)

Energy, climate, land-use and money - four challenges in one go!

EC#14

ÓGallachóir

Dr Séamus Ó Tuama and Dr Laurence Davis (Government)

Democracy and Ecological Sustainability

EC#15

Mark Poland and Stephan Koch (Buildings & Estates)

 

Feedback towards research - topics arising from UCC's comprehensive Green Campus strategy - The practitioners' perspective from work on the ground

EC#16

PolandKoch

Dr Laura Rascaroli (Italian/Film Studies)

Ecofilm: Sustainable Cinema and the Schull Film Festival

EC#17

Rascaroli

Fionn Rogan,  Dr Paul Bolger & Dr Brian Ó Gallachóir (Sustainable Energy Research Group)

The Role of Stakeholder Engagement in Assessing Climate Technology Potential in Ireland

EC#18

Rogan

Dr. Fariborz Safari (Law)

Regulatory Challenges for the Sustainable Development of Offshore Activities and Renewable Energy

EC#19

 

Dr Bénédicte Sage-Fuller (Law)

Precaution, or Prudence for Sustainability? Re-assessing the Jurisprudential Foundation of the Precautionary Principle

EC#20

SageFuller

Dr Colin Sage (Geography) and Dr Mary O'Shaughnessy (Food Business & Development)

Transitions to sustainable rural development in Ireland: Waving goodbye or saying hello?

 EC#21

Sage

Prof David Sheehan (Biochemistry)

Toxic or not?: Nanomaterials as emerging environmental threats

EC#22

Sheehan

Dr Tracy Skillington (Sociology)

Competing visions of climate justice

EC#23

 

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