Mrs Emily Smyth (Ulster) The European Landscape Convention commits the Northern Ireland government since 2007 to recognising landscape as a common resource to which everyone… Read More »Landscape Planning for Sustainable Development
Dr Heather Ritchie and Prof Greg Lloyd (Ulster) The island of Ireland, though physically small, faces big institutional challenges for the delivery of a sustainable… Read More »Marine planning for the blue economy: small island: big challenges
Prof J. Andrew G Cooper (Ulster) Recent storms on the Northern Ireland coast have caused widespread flooding and coastal erosion. Erosion threatens buildings, roads, railways… Read More »Shoreline management planning in Northern Ireland
Prof Rory O’Connell (Ulster), Mr Eoin Rooney, Prof Colin Harvey (QUB) and Prof Aoife Nolan (Nottingham, ex QUB) This presentation discusses the findings of multidisciplinary… Read More »Budget analysis and Housing in Northern Ireland
Ms Lindsay Shaw (Ulster) There are social inequality issues relating to low/limited income households being less able to afford a better standard of housing. While… Read More »Changing the Minimum Standard for Housing
Prof Brigid Featherstone (OU) and Dr John Devaney (QUB) In both England and Northern Ireland there appears to be a policy consensus that early authoritative… Read More »Making timely decisions for children: balancing differing needs in families
Dr Alice Diver (Ulster) This presentation looks at the right to genetic identity/relatedness, with reference to some recent controversial cases involving adoption, surrogacy, donor children… Read More »The child’s right to genetic ancestry as a key element of the best interests principle in adoption, donor and surrogacy contexts: reforming adoption law in Northern Ireland
Dr Peter Bolan, Dr Karise Hutchinson and Mr Matthew Kearney (Ulster) This presentation explains that golf and film tourism are both highly lucrative and Northern… Read More »Developing and harnessing golf tourism and film tourism as economic drivers
Dr Brendan Galbraith and Ms Kirsty McManus (Ulster) A key question is how do business models ensure that new high-tech innovations are responsible, benefit society and… Read More »Benefiting a regional economy with societal-driven innovation adoption in high-tech small firms
Ms Michelle Douglas, Prof Karen Fleming and Prof Ian Montgomery (Ulster) In almost all the official Northern Ireland documentation highlighting statistics and reviews for the… Read More »Hide and Seek: Where is design in the creative industries network of Northern Ireland and do we really understand its power in the growth of our economy?
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