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Climate change may have a range of impacts in Ireland.Increasing temperatures may change weather patterns, with the potential for increased heatwaves, rainfall and storm events, with subsequent impacts on people through flooding [1] Climate change has been assessed to be the single biggest threat to Ireland, according to the head of the Defence Forces of Ireland, Mark Mellett.
Urban and rural districts were divisions of administrative counties in Ireland created in 1899. These local government areas elected urban district councils (UDCs) and rural district councils (RDCs) respectively which shared responsibilities with a county council. They were established when all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom.
The National Health Service (NHS) is implementing resilience measures to address climate-related health challenges, [15] while nature-based solutions like urban greening mitigate impacts. [16] [17] However, health inequalities, particularly in low-income communities, exacerbate vulnerability to climate risks. Addressing these disparities is ...
It reached Ireland in 1348 and decimated the Hiberno-Norman urban settlements. The fourth calamity for the medieval English presence in Ireland was the Black Death, which arrived in Ireland in 1348. Because most of the English and Norman inhabitants of Ireland lived in towns and villages, the plague hit them far harder than it did the native ...
The term "smart growth" is particularly used in North America. In Europe and particularly the UK, the terms "compact city", "urban densification" [1] or "urban intensification" have often been used to describe similar concepts, which have influenced government planning policies in the UK, the Netherlands and several other European countries.
- Northern Ireland was torn apart by three decades of violence between nationalist and unionist communities that ended with the Good Friday Agreement signed 25 years ago on April 10, 1998, between ...
Energy Efficiency of different Transport Modes. Sustainable urbanism is both the study of cities and the practices to build them (), that focuses on promoting their long term viability by reducing consumption, waste and harmful impacts on people and place while enhancing the overall well-being of both people and place. [1]
A glimpse on the history of green urbanism of the U.S. as found in Karlenzig's, et al. ‘How Green is Your City’ book (2007, 06–07). The concept had a gradual start in the late 1800s, when some large cities of the United States (U.S.) started using advanced drinking water, sewage and sanitary systems.