European upland landscapes are of high natural and cultural value. In this interdisciplinary paper we present a case study, set in the Irish uplands. We highlight the complex links between ecology, farming systems, the policy environment and the local socio-economic and cultural context. Given the current low economic returns from hill sheep farming, pluriactivity and multifunctionalism are increasingly necessary farm household coping strategies. We argue that the part-time farming model has land ...
Tópico(s): Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
2009 - De Gruyter Open | European Countryside
Eileen O’Rourke, Nadine Kramm,
European upland landscapes are of high natural and cultural value.In this paper we present a case study, set in the Irish uplands.We highlight the complex links between ecology, farming systems, the policy environment and the local socioeconomic and cultural context.Given the current low economic returns from hill sheep farming, pluriactivity and multifunctionalism are increasingly necessary farm household coping strategies.We argue that the part-time farming model has land use management and ecological ...
Tópico(s): Ecology and biodiversity studies
2009 - De Gruyter Open | European Countryside
Vincent Dupret, Hannah Byrne, Tom Challands, Øyvind Hammer, Kenneth T. Higgs, John A. Long, Grzegorz Niedźwiedzki, Martin Qvarnström, Iwan Stössel, Per Ahlberg,
The Middle Devonian (Givetian) Valentia Slate Formation in the Iveragh Peninsula, southwest Ireland, is more renowned for the second oldest record of tetrapod trackways in the world than for its heavily metamorphosed bone remains. The present study focuses on new discoveries of non-tetrapod sarcopterygian fish fossils from the Valentia Slate Formation. Micro-CT scanning technology allows a re-interpretation of a previously published acanthodian fin spine as a fanged coronoid of a probable Rhizodontida ...
Tópico(s): Evolution and Paleontology Studies
2023 - Sociedad Española de Paleontología | Spanish Journal of Palaeontology
... 11.6km off the westernmost tip of the Iveragh peninsula, Co. Kerry, Ireland. The island is approximately 21. ...
Tópico(s): Cruise Tourism Development and Management
2020 - University of York | Internet Archaeology