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Prof. Jim Walsh

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Name:	Prof. Jim Walsh
Position:	Vice President for Innovation and Strategic Initiatives
Department:
Organisation:	NUI Maynooth
Location:	Riverstown Lodge
E-mail:	vicepresident.innovation@nuim.ie
Telephone:	++ 353 1 708 4727
Fax:	++ 353 1 708 6956
Research Interests:	Agriculture and population geography; local and regional development; Western Europe development studies
Research Group(s):	Governance and Development Contemporary & Historical Perspectives on Migration and Demographic Change

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Publications

• Walsh, J.A. People and Place: A Census Atlas of the Republic of Ireland. This book includes over 200 ED level maps in full colour and an extensive commentary that contextualises the demographic, economic, social and lifestyle aspects of the human geography of Ireland at the dawn of the 21st century (2007).
  

• Walsh, J.A. Planning for regional development in a peripheral open economy: the case of Ireland. In Byron, R. Jenkins, T. and Amdam,J. (eds.) Marginalised Communities in a Globalised Economy, Ashgate Press. Aldershot, 2004.
  
  
• Walsh, J.A. Partnership Theory and Practice In Walsh, J.A., and Meldon, J.(eds.) Partnerships for Effective Local Development, CREADEL Publication No. 2, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Charleroi, 2004.

• Walsh, J.A. Agriculture and Rural Development Policy in the context of EU Spatial Policy, in The Territorial Impacts of the CAP and Rural Development Policy Final Report for ESPON project 2.1.3., accessible at http//www.espon.lu/projects/ , pp. 230-254, 2004

• Walsh, J.A. Contributions to chapters on ‘Adjustments and Impacts of CAP/RDP’ in in The Territorial Impacts of the CAP and Rural Development Policy Final Report for ESPON project 2.1.3., accessible at http//www.espon.lu/projects/ , pp. 255-283, 2004

• Walsh, J.A. with K. Schmidt-Thome, D. Stead and E. Marques de Costa, Socio-economic diversification and interconnectedness of urban and rural areas, in C. Bengs and K. Schmidt-Thome (eds.) Urban – Rural Relation in Europe Final Report for ESPON PROJECT 1.1.2, accessible at http//www.espon.lu/projects/ , pp. 180-209, 2004

• Walsh, J.A. Review of European Spatial Planning edited by A. Faludi, Cambridge, Massachussetts, in Journal of Regional Science, 44, 3, 2004, pp. 612-615.

• Walsh, J.A. (2003) Contributions to report on The Territorial Impacts of the CAP and Rural Development Policies, accessible at http://www.espon.lu/projects/project 2.1.3

• Walsh, J. A. Interactions between CAP and Rural Development Policy and other territorially relevant policies of the EU in The Territorial Impacts of the CAP and Rural Development Policies, Third Interim Report for ESPON project 2.1.3., accessible at http//www.espon.lu/projects/ ,pp. 126-142, 2003.

• Walsh, J., McHugh, C. and and O’Brien, M., Types of Rural Areas in the Midwest Region and counties Offaly and Kerry, Report for Shannon Development, 2003

• Walsh, J.A., The National Spatial Strategy as a framework for achieving balanced regional development. In J. McDonagh, (ed.) Economy, Society and Peripherality – experiences from the west of Ireland. Arlen House, Galway, 55-79, 2002

• Walsh, A., Hughes, H. and Maddox, D.P. (2002) 'Total Quality Management Continuous Improvement; Is the philosophy a reality. Journal of European Industrial Training, 299-307.

• Walsh, J., Boyle, G., and Meldon, J. (2002) Le Cheile, An Integrated Strategy for Meath to 2012. Meath County Development Board, Navan.
  
  

Presentations

• Walsh, J.A. The Geography of population change in Ireland in the 1990s Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Maynooth, May, 2004 Oral presentation National
  
  
• Walsh, J.A. Spatial Planning for Territorial Cohesion – linking the urban and rural domains Ireland 2004 Presidency of the European Union Conference on Territorial Cohesion, Galway, May 2004. Guest speaker international

• Walsh, J. The National Spatial Strategy and the Regional Development Strategy for Northern Ireland: Critical Reflections Presented to the Third Harvard School of Design North South Planning Conference on Dublin-Belfast Corridor 2025 and North-South Cooperation, Newry, 11-12 September 2003 (with M. Murray, QUB). Oral presentation International

• Walsh, J. (2003) ‘Strategic elements of an integrated spatial data infrastructure’, presented to IRLOGI Seminar on National Spatial Data Infrastructure, Dublin, June 2003