Authors: William Brazil, Brian Caulfield, December 2017
Year: 2017
Eco-labels are a widely used means of providing consumers with information regarding the environmental and energy impacts associated with various products and services. Given the opportunity that such labels represent, and the resources devoted to creating them, there is a need to ensure that they are effectively communicating the relevant information to the general public.
Authors: Anne Morrissey, Declan McGlade, Kieran Nolan, Brid Quilty and Jenny Lawler, December 2017
Year: 2017
This report provides a summary of the findings of the research on the design, development and testing of a novel drinking water treatment system using a combination of filtration and nanostructured composites for the removal of inorganic, organic and microbiological contaminants from water.
Authors: John Curtis and Stephen Hynes, November 2017
Year: 2017
The objective of this research was to determine how water-based recreational activities in Ireland are affected by differences in water quality across recreational sites.
Authors: Connie O’Driscoll, Liwen Xiao, Xinmin Zhan, Bruce Misstear and Francesco Pilla, November 2017
Year: 2017
Ireland has an unacceptably high number of drinking water supplies that exceed the parametric value of 100 μg L-1 for total trihalomethanes (THMs) and has been reporting the highest non-compliance with respect to total THMs in drinking water across the 27 EU Member States.
Authors: Michael Bruen, Anna Rymszewicz, John O’Sullivan, Jonathan Turner, Damian Lawler, Elizabeth Conroy and Mary Kelly-Quinn, November 2017
Year: 2017
The SILTFLUX project addressed three major objectives related to sediment pollution in rivers.
Authors: Alec Rolston, Eleanor Jennings, Suzanne Linnane and David Getty, November 2017
Year: 2017
The benefits and disservices received by people and ecosystems within catchments are called catchment services and disservices. Their delivery can be influenced by multiple factors including climate, legislative/policy and social (demographic) change.
Annex to Review of Current Priorities and Emerging Issues in European Waste Policy, October 2017
Year: 2017
Annex to the Report: Review of Current Priorities and Emerging Issues in European Waste Policy
Year: 2017
This report sets out to assess key current issues, and important emerging issues, in the waste policy arena in the European Commission, and in selected Member States.
Authors: Gerard Kiely, Paul Leahy, Ciaran Lewis, Xianli Xu and Matteo Sottocornola, October 2017
Year: 2017
Research 225 on SoilC - Feasibility of Grassland Soil Carbon Survey
Authors: Donal Keane, Suresh Pillai, Lorraine Gibson, Justin Holmes and Michael Morris, September 2017
Year: 2017
EPA Research Report 226 on An Investigation into Air Purification of Malodorous Methyl Mercaptan by Photocatalysis and Adsorption
Author: J. Andrew Kelly, September 2017
Year: 2017
Research 224 on Integrated Modelling Project Ireland
Authors: Margaret Desmond, Phillip O’Brien and Frank McGovern, September 2017
Year: 2017
Research 223: A Summary of the State of Knowledge on Climate Change Impacts for Ireland
Authors: John Devaney, John Redmond, Brian Barrett, Grace Cott and John O’Halloran, September 2017
Year: 2017
Research 221 on 21st Century Deforestation in Ireland
A report commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency Research Programme, September 2017
Year: 2017
Best Practices from the European Implementation Reviews of Environmental Law in the EU-28 Countries
Authors: Celine McInerney and Joseph Curtin, August 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 220 on Financial Incentives to Promote Citizen Investment in Low-carbon and Resource-efficient Assets
Authors: Barry O’Dwyer and Jeremy Gault, August 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 222 on The Development of an Irish Climate Information Platform (ICIP) – Phase 2
Authors: Lisa O’Donoghue and Paul Moroney, August 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 201 detailing the Investigation of Liquid Crystal Displays as a Source of Indium
Authors: Edel Hannigan and Mary Kelly-Quinn, July 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 219 Characterising the Biological Communities of Rare River Types
Authors: Ahmed Elssidig Nasr and Paul Hynds, June 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 218 on the Assessment of the Hydrometric Network and Hydrodynamic Behaviour of Small Irish Catchments
Authors: Cathriona Cahill and Cora Plant, June 2017
Year: 2017
EPA Research Report 217 on the Beneficial Use of Old Landfills as a Parkland Amenity
