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- 1978-1980 (Création/Production)
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Simon Dalby was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and the University of Victoria, Canada (MA) and holds a PhD from Simon Fraser University of British Columbia, Canada. He was Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa until 2012, when he joined Wilfrid Laurier University’s Balsillie School of International Affairs as professor of Geography and Environmental Studies. His research interests include climate change, environmental security and geopolitics, on which topics he has published extensively.
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Press cuttings and photocopies of press cuttings from the Cork Examiner, Evening Echo, Hibernia, Hot Press, Irish Times and Sunday Independent, originally contained in a folder marked ‘Newsclippings Nuclear – Ireland End 1979.’ Topics include the debate for and against the introduction of nuclear power into Ireland; alternative sources of energy; activities of anti-nuclear groups in Ireland and abroad; nuclear accidents; unreliability of official energy need forecasts; the arms race and the threat of nuclear war; EEC support for a nuclear plant in Ireland; British nuclear programme; dangers involved in transporting and storing plutonium; the film The China Syndrome; Carnsore public inquiry and the role of political parties in it; uranium mining; Kinsale gas field; the prospect of power cuts in the coming winter; and the impact of ecological issues and conservationist parties in the forthcoming European election. The press cuttings are grouped into months by blank sheets of paper. In ten folders.
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- anglais