2009 Press Releases
Conference of Irish Geographers
12.05.2009
UCC’s Department of Geography will host the 2009 Conference of Irish Geographers from Thursday, May 14th to Saturday, May 16th.This year's theme will be Irish Geographies: prospect and retrospect.
12.05.2009
UCC’s Department of Geography will host the 2009 Conference of Irish Geographers from Thursday, May 14th to Saturday, May 16th.This year's theme will be Irish Geographies: prospect and retrospect.
The conference includes papers covering a wide range of environmental and social issues, such as monitoring climate change and its effects on biodiversity and flooding, a range of papers about planning issues including urban regeneration and land values, the rise of the Creative City, analysis of the Cork Area Strategic Plan and the National Spatial Strategy, as well as future growth scenarios for various Irish regions to the spatial patterns of cocaine trafficking and consumption, and development issues in Sub Saharan Africa.
This event marks the 40th anniversary of the annual Conference of Irish Geographers. The Department of Geography will be host to 180 participants from across the island of Ireland, Britain, Continental Europe, the USA, Canada and South Africa. The conference will hear more than 110 presentations, which makes a dramatic change from the Annual Conference’s early beginnings in 1969 when the delegates to the first conference, held in Cork, heard just two papers.
Dr Mary Kelly, director of the Environmental Protection Agency will give the opening lecture of the conference on Thursday evening at 8pm in Boole I titled “The Green Economy: Future Challenges for the Environment in Post Celtic Tiger Ireland”. Other topics to be covered at the three-day event include answering questions as diverse as why have so few indigenous farming families converted to organic agriculture, what is Christianity’s contribution to war and peace, and where does the Catholic Church belong in a changed Ireland, how do Irish and Scottish strategies for managing their Diaspora populations compare, and what are the experiences of migrants in Ireland.
Further information about the conference can be found at: http://www.ucc.ie/acad/geog/pages/index.htm
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This event marks the 40th anniversary of the annual Conference of Irish Geographers. The Department of Geography will be host to 180 participants from across the island of Ireland, Britain, Continental Europe, the USA, Canada and South Africa. The conference will hear more than 110 presentations, which makes a dramatic change from the Annual Conference’s early beginnings in 1969 when the delegates to the first conference, held in Cork, heard just two papers.
Dr Mary Kelly, director of the Environmental Protection Agency will give the opening lecture of the conference on Thursday evening at 8pm in Boole I titled “The Green Economy: Future Challenges for the Environment in Post Celtic Tiger Ireland”. Other topics to be covered at the three-day event include answering questions as diverse as why have so few indigenous farming families converted to organic agriculture, what is Christianity’s contribution to war and peace, and where does the Catholic Church belong in a changed Ireland, how do Irish and Scottish strategies for managing their Diaspora populations compare, and what are the experiences of migrants in Ireland.
Further information about the conference can be found at: http://www.ucc.ie/acad/geog/pages/index.htm
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