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Karen Keaveney

Personal Information

Name:	Karen Keaveney
Position:	Doctoral Fellow, Teagasc-Walsh
Department:	Geography
Organisation:	NUI Maynooth
Location:	off campus
E-mail:	karen.m.keaveney@nuim.ie
Telephone:	++353 1 708 6392
Fax:	++353 1 708 3573
Research Interests:	Rural Planning, Housing, Planning Policy Formulation, Regional and Local Planning
Research Group(s):	Environment and Culture

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Projects

Project Title:	Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish Countryside
Supervisor:	Prof. PJ Duffy, Prof. Jim Walsh
Project Abstract:	The current debate on rural housing in Ireland highlights the need to establish reliable benchmarks to counteract the anecdotal evidence used in media and politics. There is a range of ambiguities in popular and policy perspectives on rural housing trends in the countryside, variously describing rural housing as either environmentally unsustainable, at variance with traditional forms of settlement or damaging to the quality of the Irish rural landscape. Research Objectives: Examine the diversity of historical and recent rural settlement patterns across regional landscapes Comprehensively review recent trends in rural housing in Ireland, with particular analyses of the location, supply and demand, and decision-making processes which apply to housing development in the countryside Analyse the manner in which the Irish rural landscape is perceived by the community at large, by local rural inhabitants and by planning authorities. This research is funded by Teagasc-Walsh Fellowship.

 

Publications

• Keaveney, K., Duffy, P.J., Walsh, J. and Pitts, E. (2004) Rural Housing – Where’s The Problem? The geography of rural housing demand in Ireland. European Network for Housing Research: New Researchers Conference, Cambridge, England, June 30th to July 2nd, 2004.
  
• Keaveney, K. (2004) Rational Comprehensive Planning – A Critique. In Milieu 2004, Journal of the Geographical Society NUI Maynooth, pp 15-18
  

• Keaveney, K., Duffy, P.J., Walsh, J. and Pitts, E. (2004) Contested Ruralities: Housing in the Irish Countryside. Regional Science Association – British and Irish Section, St. Andrews, Scotland, August 18th to 22nd, 2004.
  

• Keaveney, K. (2003) Insider and Outsider Perspectives of the Countryside. In Milieu 2003, Journal of the Geographical Society NUI Maynooth, pp 16-21