Authors: Anne Marie Mahon, Rick Officer, Róisín Nash and Ian O’Connor, April 2017
Year: 2017
Research report 210 on the Scope, Fate, Risks and Impacts of Microplastic Pollution in Irish Freshwater Systems
Authors: Anna Davies, Frances Fahy, Henrike Rau, Laura Devaney, Ruth Doyle, Mary Jo Lavelle and Richard Manton, April 2017
Year: 2017
Research report 205 on CONSENSUS II: Segmentation, Experimentation and Biographies for Sustainability
Authors:Paul Deane, Alessandro Chiodi and Brian Ó Gallachóir, April 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 199 on Irish TIMES Energy Systems Model Phase 2
Authors: Fiona Cawkwell, Brian Barrett, Ingmar Nitze, Stuart Green, Kevin Black and Peter Hallahan, April 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 198 on The Irish Land Mapping Observatory: Mapping and Monitoring Land Cover, Use and Change
Authors: Julian Aherne, Jason Henry and Marta Wolniewicz, April 2017
Year: 2017
Research report 197 on Development of Critical Loads for Ireland: Simulating Impacts on Systems (SIOS)
Authors: Brian Doyle, Thomas Cummins, Cara Augustenborg and Julian Aherne, April 2017
Year: 2017
EPA Research report on Ambient Atmospheric Ammonia in Ireland 2013–2014
Authors: James Moran and Caroline Sullivan, April 2017
Year: 2017
Agriculture systems in Europe range from very intensive production on fertile land with high inputs to very extensive High Nature Value (HNV) farmland on marginal land with low inputs.
Authors: Hugh B. Feeley, Michael Bruen, Craig Bullock, Mike Christie,Fiona Kelly, Kyriaki Remoundou, Ewa Siwicka and Mary Kelly-Quinn, March 2017
Year: 2017
The objective of this project is to harness the knowledge and tools required to embed an appreciation of ecosystem services and the ecosystems services approach into policy and decision-making for sustainable management of water resources, as required by the Water Framework Directive
Authors: Hugh B. Feeley, Michael Bruen, Craig Bullock, Mike Christie, Fiona Kelly and Mary Kelly-Quinn, March 2017
Year: 2017
The objective of this project is to harness the knowledge and tools required to embed an appreciation of ecosystem services and the ecosystems services approach into policy and decision-making for sustainable management of water resources, as required by the Water Framework Directive
Authors: Katherine E. Webster, Katie Tedd, Catherine Coxon and Ian Donohue, March 2017
Year: 2017
The overarching goal of this project was to review state of the art EFlow methodology to identify alternatives most suited to the Irish context and for developing flow standards.
Report commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency, March 2017
Year: 2017
In 2013, the EPA commissioned Golder Associates to undertake a study into how human health impacts are dealt with throughout the European Union (EU) by environmental regulators with an emphasis on the role of health impact assessment (HIA) at the planning / environment interface.
Authors: Mark G. Healy, Owen Fenton, Enda Cummins, Rachel Clarke, Dara Peyton, Ger Fleming, David Wall, Liam Morrison and Martin Cormican, January 2017
Year: 2017
Research Report 200 detailing the Health and Water Quality Impacts Arising from Land Spreading of Biosolids
Authors: Aoife Donnelly, Bruce Misstear, Brian Broderick and Francesco Pilla, January 2017
Year: 2017
The purpose of this discussion document is to help identify knowledge gaps and priorities for air science research in Ireland.
Authors: Craig Bullock and Robert O’Shea, January 2017
Year: 2017
ECORISK had the objective of exploring methods whereby the valuation of social and economic impacts could be used to supplement established methods of environmental damage assessment for the purposes of remediation.
Authors: Donnacha Doody, Paul Cross, Paul Withers, Rachel Cassidy, Cara Augustenborg, Andrew Pullin, Owen Carton and Seamus Crosse, December 2016
Year: 2016
Research 194: AgImpact Project: A Systematic and Participatory Review of Research on the Impact of Agriculture on Aquatic Ecosystems in Ireland
Authors: John Ballinger, Travis O’Doherty, Fran Igoe, Catherine Dalton, Brendan O’Keeffe and Bryan Riney, December 2016
Year: 2016
Research report 191 - A Critical Analysis of Delivering Integrated Catchment Management through the Bottom-up Approach
Authors: Rachel E. Creamer, Iolanda Simo, Lilian O’Sullivan, Brian Reidy, Rogier P.O. Schulte and Reamonn M. Fealy, December 2016
Year: 2016
This report has synthesised the soil profile descriptions taken as part of the Irish Soil Information System project and developed a range of soil property maps to provide users with generalised descriptions of a range of soil properties which are relevant to soil science research and soil management advice in Ireland. The property maps include; soil texture, soil depth, soil pH, soil bulk density and soil carbon.
Authors: Michael P. Ryan, Angela Boyce and Gary Walsh, December 2016
Year: 2016
Research report 189 on Identification and evaluation of phosphorus recovery technologies
Authors: Caitriona Carlin, Martin Cormican and Mike Gormally, December 2016
Year: 2016
This project reviewed (1) evidence of wellbeing and health benefits from biodiversity, (2) views of health benefits from nature held by people who make decisions regarding green space and (3) practices to engage the public with the natural environment as a sustainable health strategy, to inform policymakers and practitioners of the health benefits from the natural environment and to recommend implementation strategies in Ireland
Authors: Bernadette O’Regan, Travis O’Doherty, Brian G. Fitzgerald and Richard Moles, December 2016
Year: 2016
This Guide accompanies Research 178A: Quantitative Evaluation of Settlement Sustainability Policy
