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451Research- a Highly Attractive Location
IRELAND A Highly Attractive Location for Hosting Digital Assets 360° Research Report SPECIAL REPORT OCTOBER 2013 451 RESEARCH: SPECIAL REPORT © 2013 451 RESEARCH, LLC AND/OR ITS AFFILIATES. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ABOUT 451 RESEARCH 451 Research is a leading global analyst and data company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. Clients of the company — at end-user, service-provider, vendor and investor organizations — rely on 451 Research’s insight through a range of syndicated research and advisory services to support both strategic and tactical decision-making. ABOUT 451 ADVISORS 451 Advisors provides consulting services to enterprises, service providers and IT vendors, enabling them to successfully navigate the Digital Infrastructure evolution. There is a global sea change under way in IT. Digital infrastructure – the totality of datacenter facilities, IT assets, and service providers employed by enterprises to deliver business value – is being transformed. IT demand is skyrocketing, while tolerance for inefficiency is plummeting. Traditional lines between facilities and IT are blurring. The edge-to-core landscape is simultaneously erupting and being reshaped. Enterprises of all sizes need to adapt to remain competitive – and even to survive. Third-party service providers are playing an increasingly flexible and vital role, enabled by advancements in technology and the evolution of business models. IT vendors and service providers need to understand this changing landscape to remain relevant and capitalize on new opportunities. 451 Advisors addresses the gap between traditional research and management consulting through unique methodologies, proprietary tools, and a complementary base of independent analyst insight and data-driven market intelligence. 451 Research leverages a team of seasoned consulting professionals with the expertise and experience to address the strategic, planning and research challenges associated with the Digital Infrastructure evolution. -
A Life Cycle Assessment Approach on Swedish and Irish Beef Production
Life Cycle Analysis – HT161 December 2016 A life cycle assessment approach on Swedish and Irish beef production Group 1 - Emma Lidell, Elvira Molin, Arash Sajadi & Emily Theokritoff 0 AG2800 Life cycle assessment Lidell, Molin, Sajadi, Theokritoff Summary This life CyCle assessment has been ConduCted to identify and Compare the environmental impacts arising from the Swedish and Irish beef produCtion systems. It is a Cradle to gate study with the funCtional unit of 1 kg of dressed weight. Several proCesses suCh as the slaughterhouse and retail in both Ireland and Sweden have been excluded since they are similar and CanCel each other out. The focus of the study has been on feed, farming and transportation during the beef production. Since this is an attributional LCA, data ColleCtion mainly Consists of average data from different online sources. Smaller differenCes in the Composition of feed were found for the two systems while a major difference between the two production systems is the lifespan of the Cattle. Based on studied literature, the average lifespan for Cattle in Sweden is 45 months while the Irish Cattle lifespan is 18 months. The impaCt Categories that have been assessed are: Climate Change, eutrophiCation, acidifiCation, land oCcupation and land transformation. In all the assessed impact categories, the Swedish beef produCtion system has a higher environmental impact than the Irish beef produCtion system, mainly due to the higher lifespan of the cattle. AcidifiCation, whiCh is the most signifiCant impact Category when analising the normalised results, differs greatly between the two systems. The Swedish beef system emits almost double the amount (1.3 kg) of SO2 Eq for 1 kg of dressed weight Compared to the Irish beef system (0.7 kg SO2 Eq/FU). -
UCC Library and UCC Researchers Have Made This Item Openly Available
UCC Library and UCC researchers have made this item openly available. Please let us know how this has helped you. Thanks! Title The historic record of cold spells in Ireland Author(s) Hickey, Kieran R. Publication date 2011 Original citation HICKEY, K. 2011. The historic record of cold spells in Ireland. Irish Geography, 44, 303-321. Type of publication Article (peer-reviewed) Link to publisher's http://irishgeography.ie/index.php/irishgeography/article/view/48 version http://dx.doi.org/10.2014/igj.v44i2.48 Access to the full text of the published version may require a subscription. Rights © 2011 Geographical Society of Ireland http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Item downloaded http://hdl.handle.net/10468/2526 from Downloaded on 2021-10-04T01:15:21Z Irish Geography Vol. 44, Nos. 2Á3, JulyÁNovember 2011, 303Á321 The historic record of cold spells in Ireland Kieran Hickey* Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Galway This paper assesses the long historical climatological record of cold spells in Ireland stretching back to the 1st millennium BC. Over this time period cold spells in Ireland can be linked to solar output variations and volcanic activity both in Iceland and elsewhere. This provides a context for an exploration of the two most recent cold spells which affected Ireland in 2009Á2010 and in late 2010 and were the two worst weather disasters in recent Irish history. These latter events are examined in this context and the role of the Arctic Oscillation (AO) and declining Arctic sea-ice levels are also considered. These recent events with detailed instrumental temperature records also enable a re-evaluation of the historic records of cold spells in Ireland. -
Resilience and the Threat of Natural Disasters in Europe Denis Binder
Resilience and the Threat of Natural Disasters in Europe Denis Binder, Chapman University, United States The European Conference on Sustainability, Energy & the Environment 2018 Official Conference Proceedings iafor The International Academic Forum www.iafor.org Introduction This paper focuses on the existential threat of natural hazards. History and recent experience tell us that the most constant, and predictable, hazard in Europe is that of widespread flooding with storms, often with hurricane force winds, slamming the coastal area and causing flooding inland as well. The modern world is seemingly plagued with the scourges of the Old Testament: earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, volcanoes, hurricanes and cyclones, wildfires, avalanches and landslides. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, have perished globally in natural hazards, falling victim to extreme forces of nature. None of these perils are new to civilization. Both the Gilgamesh Epic1 and the Old Testament talk of epic floods.2 The Egyptians faced ten plagues. The Minoans, Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Ottomans experienced earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and pestilence. A cyclone destroyed Kublai Khan’s invasion fleet of Japan on August 15, 1281. A massive earthquake in Shaanxi Province, China on January 23, 1556 is estimated to have killed 830,000 persons. A discussion of extreme hazards often involves a common misconception of 100 year floods, 500 year floods, 200 year returns, and similar periods. A mistaken belief is that a “100 year” flood only occurs once a century. The measurement period is a statistical average over an extended period of time. It is not a means of forecasting. It means that on average a storm of that magnitude will occur once in a hundred years, but these storms could be back to back. -
Smartworld.Asia Specworld.In
Smartworld.asia Specworld.in UNIT-2 A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to recover. An adverse event will not rise to the level of a disaster if it occurs in an area without vulnerable population. In a vulnerable area, however, such as San Francisco, an earthquake can have disastrous consequences and leave lasting damage, requiring years to repair. In 2012, there were 905 natural catastrophes worldwide, 93% of which were weather-related disasters. Overall costs were US$170 billion and insured losses $70 billion. 2012 was a moderate year. 45% were meteorological (storms), 36% were hydrological (floods), 12% were climatologically (heat waves, cold waves, droughts, wildfires) and 7% were geophysical events (earthquakes and volcanic eruptions). Between 1980 and 2011 geophysical events accounted for 14% of all natural Avalanches smartworlD.asia During World War I, an estimated 40,000 to 80,000 soldiers died as a result of avalanches during the mountain campaign in the Alps at the Austrian-Italian front, many of which were caused by artillery fire.[6] Earthquakes An earthquake is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves. At the Earth's surface, earthquakes manifest themselves by vibration, shaking and sometimes displacement of the ground. -
HRPP367-Hydrodynamic and Loss... the 1953 Canvey Island Flood
Hydrodynamic and loss of life modelling for the 1953 Canvey Island fl ood HRPP 368 Manuela Di Mauro & Darren Lumbroso Reproduced from: Flood Risk Management - Research and Practice Proceedings of FLOODrisk 2008 Keble College, Oxford, UK 30 September to 2 October 2008 Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice – Samuels et al. (eds) © 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-48507-4 Hydrodynamic and loss of life modelling for the 1953 Canvey Island flood Manuela Di Mauro & Darren Lumbroso HR Wallingford Ltd, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ABSTRACT: Canvey Island is located in the Thames Estuary. The island is a low-lying alluvial fan covering an area of 18.5 km2, with an average height of approximately 1 m below the mean high water level. Canvey Island is protected against inundation by a network of flood defences. In 1953, the island was inundated by the “Great North Sea Flood” that breached the island’s flood defences and resulted in the deaths of 58 people and the destruction of several hundred houses. As part of the EC funded research project FLOODsite, work was undertaken to set up both a hydrodynamic and an agent-based loss-of-life model of Canvey Island for the 1953 flood. The objective of the work was to obtain a better understanding of the 1953 flood event and to analyse the consequences of breaches in the island’s flood defences in terms of loss of life and injuries. The work under- taken indicates that the agent-based life safety model can provide a scientifically robust method to assess loss of life, injuries and evacuation times for areas that are at risk from flooding in the UK. -
MAS8306 Topics in Statistics: Environmental Extremes
MAS8306 Topics in Statistics: Environmental Extremes Dr. Lee Fawcett Semester 2 2017/18 1 Background and motivation 1.1 Introduction Finally, there is almost1 a global consensus amongst scientists that our planet’s climate is changing. Evidence for climatic change has been collected from a variety of sources, some of which can be used to reconstruct the earth’s changing climates over tens of thousands of years. Reasonably complete global records of the earth’s surface tempera- ture since the early 1800’s indicate a positive trend in the average annual temperature, and maximum annual temperature, most noticeable at the earth’s poles. Glaciers are considered amongst the most sensitive indicators of climate change. As the earth warms, glaciers retreat and ice sheets melt, which – over the last 30 years or so – has resulted in a gradual increase in sea and ocean levels. Apart from the consequences on ocean ecosystems, rising sea levels pose a direct threat to low–lying inhabited areas of land. Less direct, but certainly noticeable in the last fiteen years or so, is the effect of rising sea levels on the earth’s weather systems. A larger amount of warmer water in the Atlantic Ocean, for example, has certainly resulted in stronger, and more frequent, 1Almost... — 3 — 1 Background and motivation tropical storms and hurricanes; unless you’ve been living under a rock over the last few years, you would have noticed this in the media (e.g. Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Superstorm Sandy in 2012). Most recently, and as reported in the New York Times in January 2018, the 2017 hurricane season was “.. -
Irish Climate Futures: Data for Decision-Making Report No
EPA Research Report 277 Irish Climate Futures: Data for Decision-making Report No. 277 Authors: Conor Murphy, Claran Broderick, Tom K.R. Matthews, Simon Noone and Ciara Ryan Irish Climate Futures: Data for Decision-making Identified Pressures Authors: Conor Murphy, Ciaran Broderick, Tom K.R. Matthews, The realisation of a climate-resilient Ireland over the coming decades depends on decisions taken at all scales to adapt to climate change. Good decisions depend on the type and quality of information used Simon Noone and Ciara Ryan to inform planning. Building resilience requires the diversification of the types of information used to understand past and future climate variability and change, and improved insight into the plausible range of changing conditions that will need to be addressed. Informed Policy The need to adapt to climate change means that there is a demand from a variety of different users and sectors for actionable climate information. For instance, in the Irish context, guidance is provided for sectors and local authorities in developing and implementing adaptation plans. In particular, climate information is required to (1) assess the current adaptation baseline, which involves identifying extremes in the historical record and examining the vulnerabilities and impacts of these; (2) assess future climate risks; and (3) identify, assess and prioritise adaptation options. A key challenge to undertaking these tasks is identifying the kinds of climate data that are required for the development and implementation of adaptation planning. This challenge is explored and aspects are addressed as part of this research. Outputs from this work have been used to inform the Citizen’s Assembly deliberations on climate change, the National Adaptation Framework and the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action. -
Case Study of Flood Control in the Netherlands Natural Disasters Have
Case Study of Flood Control in the Netherlands Natural disasters have become much more violent, causing excessive damage to humankind. Among the most common and frequent natural disasters are inundations or floods. Many countries lack the capacity to deal with the destructive power of overflowing water, but the Netherlands has managed to exert control over its flooding situations. In fact, this small country is known for having the world’s best flood control system, in which advanced technologies and innovations have been integrated into the fight against inundations. The name Netherlands—meaning low countries—is befitting, since most of its landmass is below sea level. More than 60% of the country’s surface area are at risk of being inundated, including its international airport, which is 5 meters below mean sea level. The region that is now the Netherlands has dealt with floods for more than 2,000 years, but the Dutch have never given up. Their saying “God created the world but the Dutch created the Netherlands” is exemplary of their ability to cope with natural disasters. Flooded Area in the Absence of All Water Defences Safety Standard per Dike-Ring Area Water Defenses Images depicting the Netherland’s flood-risk area and flood control solutions During the historic North Sea Flood of 1953, the storm and sea waves of 16 feet obliterated the shorelines of Scotland, Belgium, England, and the Netherlands. Among over 2,000 casualties were 1,835 Dutch citizens, and more than 70,000 people were displaced. About 150,000 hectares of the surface area or 9% of the entire country was under water. -
Climate Change in Ireland
Climate change in Ireland- recent trends in temperature and precipitation Laura McElwain and John Sweeney Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth ABSTRACT This paper presents an assessment of indicators of climate change in Ireland over the past century. Trends are examined in order to determine the magnitude and direction of ongoing climate change. Although detection of a trend is difficult due to the influence of the North Atlantic Ocean, it is concluded that Irish cli- mate is following similar trajectories to those predicted by global climate mod- els. Climatic variables investigated included the key temperature and precipita- tion data series from the Irish synoptic station network. Analysis of the Irish mean temperature records indicates an increase similar to global trends, particu- larly with reference to early-twentieth century wanning and, more importantly, rapid warming in the 1990s. Similarly, analysis of precipitation change support the findings of the United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme (UKCIPS) with evidence of a trend towards winter increases in the north-west of the coun- try and summer decreases in the south-east. Secondary climate indicators such as frequency of 'hot' and 'cold' days were found to reveal more variable trends. Key index words: climate change, trends, precipitation, trajectories. Introduction An increase in global surface temperature of 0.6 + 0.2°C has occurred since the late- nineteenth century (IPCC, 2001). Most of this warming has occurred during two main periods: 1910-1945 and 1976 to the present. During the present episode of rapid wanning, temperatures have increased at a rate of 0.15°C per decade (Jones et al., 2001). -
The Thames Barrier: London'S Moveable Flood Defense
The Thames Barrier: London's Moveable Flood Defense Alexander Hall The Thames Barrier is a moveable flood defense located on the River Thames, downstream of central London in the United Kingdom. Spanning a cross section of the river 520 meters wide, the barrier is the second longest movable flood barrier in the world, after the Netherlands’ Oosterscheldekering (Eastern Scheldt storm surge barrier). Operational since 1982, the Thames Barrier was built to protect the densely populated floodplains to the west from floods associated with exceptionally high tides and storm surges. River Thames in Flood near Marlow Photo by Wayland Smith The Thames Flood Barrier This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Photo by Paul Farmer Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic License . Source URL: http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6383 Print date: 15 November 2018 13:38:47 Hall, Alexander. "The Thames Barrier: London's Moveable Flood Defense ." Arcadia ( 2014), no. 15. A simple cross-sectional diagram showing how the six rising sector flood gates of the barrier operate Image Creator: Trolleymusic Publisher: Wikimedia Commons Date: 2012 June This work (Thames Barrier - simple operation diagram, by Trolleymusic), identified by Trolleymusic, is free of known copyright restrictions. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 License . The barrier divides the river channel into ten individual flood gates. Four of the gates sit above the river and make the outer sections non-navigable, whilst the six larger, central rising sector gates lie flat on the river bed and are only raised when an exceptional tide is expected, allowing river traffic to pass unimpeded. -
Lot 1 Box of Irish Railway Interest Photographs Etc. Estimate
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