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About University of Galway
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Natural Resource and Marine Modelling
Natural Resource and Marine Modelling
Co-Director: Dr Stephen Hynes (Socio Economics of the Marine Research Unit, NUI Galway)
Post Docs
- Karyn Morrissey (Beaufort Marine Economics Award)
- Amaya Vega (Beaufort Marine Economics Award)
PhD Students
- Ronan Waters, Micro-economics of Beef (Completed MPhil 2009 – 2010)
- Niall Farrell, Economics of Marine Renewable Energy 2009-2013 (Post Doc, Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin)
- Corina Miller, Developing an Agri-Computable Generation Model for Ireland 2008-2013 (Research Officer, AFBI, Belfast)
- Patrick Gillespie, Economics of the Irish Dairy Sector, 2011 – 2015 (Post Doc, Teagasc)
- Paul Smyth, Identifying and Measuring the Variability in Milk Production Costs in Ireland, 2013 (Economist ICMSA)
- Michele McCormack Beef Farmer Behaviour 2012 – 2016 (Post Doc, Teagasc)
- Andreas Tsakiridis Beef Cost Economics 2013 –
- Anthony Cawley, Economics of Knowledge Transfer in Agriculture 2014 –
- Brian Leonard, Economics of Farm Succession and Inheritance 2014 –
Models
- Bio-Economic Input Output Model – linking bio-based industries on land and sea with the wider economy, Eoin Grealis (NUIG-Teagasc), Cathal O’Donoghue (Teagasc) and Stephen Hynes (NUIG). The model was used to assess the economic impact of and underpin targets set by recent industry strategies, Food Wise 2015 and Harvesting our Ocean Wealth.
- Irish Contributor to E3ME (Economics, Environment, Energy) Macro Economic Model (Irish module), Cambridge Econometrics.
Monographs
- O’Donoghue, Cathal (2017) Farm Level Microsimulation. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Grealis, Eoin and Cathal O’Donoghue (2015) The Bio-Economy Input Output Model: Development and Uses. Athenry: Teagasc Rural Economy and Development Programme.
Journal Articles
- Grealis, E. 1, Hynes, S. 1, O’Donoghue, C. 2, Vega, A. 1, Van Osch, S. 1, Twomey, C. (2017) The Economic Impact of Aquaculture Expansion: An Input-Output Approach.
- Brian Leonard, Anne Kinsella, Cathal O’Donoghue, Maura Farrell, Marie Mahon, (2017), Policy drivers of farm succession and inheritance. Land Use Policy, 61 147–159
- Brian Leonard, Anne Kinsella, Cathal O’Donoghue, Maura Farrellb,2,Marie Mahon, (2017), Policy drivers of farm succession and inheritance. Land Use Policy, 61 147–159
- Loughrey, J., F. Thorne, C. O’Donoghue. (2015) Market Risk Management and the Demand for Forward Contracts Among Irish Dairy Farmers, International Journal of Agricultural Management
- O’Donoghue Cathal and Thia Hennessy (2015), Policy and Economic Change in the Agri-Food Sector in Ireland. Economic and Social Review.
- Farrell, Niall, Cathal O'Donoghue, Karyn Morrissey, Quantifying the uncertainty of wave energy conversion device cost for policy appraisal: an Irish case study, Energy Policy, Volume 78, Pages 62–77
- A.C. Miller, A. Matthews, T. Donnellan, C. O’Donoghue (2014) The employment effects of Food Harvest 2020 in Ireland. Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research Volume 53, No. 2, pp 149–169.
- Morrissey, K., O'Donoghue, C., & Farrell, N. (2014). The local impact of the marine sector in Ireland: a spatial microsimulation analysis. Spatial Economic Analysis, 9(1), 31-50.
- Kevin Kilcline, Cathal O’Donoghue, Thia Hennessy, Stephen Hynes. Economic factors affecting concentrate usage on Irish sheep farms. International Journal of Agricultural Management. Volume 3, Issue 4, pp 243-252.
- Amaya Vega, Ana Corina Miller, Cathal O'Donoghue. (2014) Economic Impacts of Seafood Production Growth Targets in Ireland. Marine Policy Vol. 47 C, pp 39-45
- Howley, P., S. Hynes, L Yadav, S. O’Neill, C O’Donoghue. Perspectives towards the 'multifunctional' roles of the agricultural sector: A comparison of the views of farmers with the general public. Land Use Policy. Volume 38, May, Pages 248–256.
- Morrissey, K., O’Donoghue, C. 2013. The Role of the Marine Sector in the Irish National Economy: An Input-Output Analysis, Marine Policy, vol 37, 230-238,
- Morrissey, K., and O’Donoghue, C. (2012) Marine Economy and Regional Development, Marine Policy 36 358–364
- O’Donoghue, C. and Howley, P. (2012) The Single Farm Payment – A Basic Income for Farmers?, Basic Income Studies. Vol. 7, Iss 1.
- Howley, P., C. O’Donoghue and K. Heanue, S. Hynes (2012) ,An examination of farm and farmer related characteristics affecting the use of artificial insemination among dairy farmers in Ireland, Journal of Agricultural Science Vol. 4, No. 6; 2012.
- Morrissey, K., Hynes, S. and O’Donoghue. (2011) Quantifying the Value of Multi-Sectoral Marine Resource Economic Activity, Marine Policy 35, 721-727.
- Breen, B., Kelley, H. and Hynes, S. (2016). The impact of precautionary quota constraints on the composition of multispecies harvest portfolios. Marine Policy, 69,13–23. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X15002900
- Carr, L. M. & Heyman, W. D. (2016). Testing fisher-developed alternatives to fishery management tools for community support and regulatory effectiveness, Marine Policy 67: 40-53. Available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X16000403
- Hynes, S., Gerritsen, H, Breen, B. and Johnson, M (2016). Discrete Choice Modelling of Fisheries with Nuanced Spatial Information. Marine Policy, 72, 156–165.
- Hanley, N., Hynes, S., Patterson, D. and Jobstvogt, N. (2015). Economic Valuation of Marine and Coastal Ecosystems: Is it currently fit for purpose? Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, 2, Article 1. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15351/2373-8456.1014
- Caffrey, J., Baars, J., Barbour, J., Boets, P., Boon, P., Davenport, K., Dick, J., Early, J., Edsman, L., Gallagher, C., Gross, J., Heinimaa, P., Horrill, C., Hudin, S., Hulme, P., Hynes, S., MacIsaac, H., McLoone, P., Millane, M., Moen, T., Moore, N., Newman, J., O’Conchuir, R., O’Farrell, M., O’Flynn, C., Oidtmann, B., Renals, T., Ricciardi, A., Roy, H., Shaw, R., Weyl, O., Williams, F., and Lucy, F. (2014). Tackling Invasive Alien Species in Europe: the top 20 issues. Management of Biological Invasions 5 (1): 1–20. Download at: http://www.reabic.net/journals/mbi/2014/1/MBI_2014_Caffrey_etal.pdf
- Zhao, R., Hynes, S., Shun He, G. (2014) Defining and quantifying China's ocean economy. Marine Policy, 43: 164-173. Download at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X1300122X
- Hynes, S. and Farrelly, N. (2012). Defining standard statistical coastal regions for Ireland, Marine Policy 36: 393–404
- Farrell, N. Breen, B., Hynes, S., Cuddy, M. (2012). Addressing failures of the Common Fisheries Policy: How principles of devolved community-based governance may improve the sustainability of Irish fisheries, The Irish Review of Community Economic Development Law & Policy, 1 (3): 53 - 74.
- Farrell, N., O' Donoghue, C. and Morrissey, K. (2015). Quantifying the uncertainty of wave energy conversion device cost for policy appraisal: An Irish case study. Energy Policy, 78: 62-77. Download at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421514006375
- Norton, D. and Hynes, S. (2014). Valuing the non-market benefits arising from the implementation of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Ecosystem Services, 10: 84-96. Download at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212041614001119
- Hynes, S. and Hennessy, T. (2012). Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in the Irish Economy, World Economy 35 (10): 1340-1358.
- Edwards, M., Løvstad Holdt, S. and Hynes, S (2012). Algal eating habits of phycologists attending the ISAP Halifax Conference and members of the general public, Journal of Applied Psychology, 24 (3): 627-633.
Book Chapters
- O’Donoghue, C. (2016) Farm Level Microsimulation Modelling. In S Shrestha, SRUC, UK, B V Ahmadi, SRUC, UK, A Barnes (eds) Farm-Level Modelling: Techniques, Applications and Policy. CABI
- Richardson, J., T. Hennessy and C. O’Donoghue. Farm Level Models. In O’Donoghue, C. (ed) Handbook of Microsimulation. Emerald Insight.
- Cathal O’Donoghue and Thia Hennessy (2014) The Agri-Food Sector in Cathal O’Donoghue, Ricky Conneely, Deirdre Frost, Kevin Heanue, Brian Leonard, David Meredith (eds.) Rural Economic Development in Ireland. Carlow: Teagasc
- Miller, A.C., Donnellan, T., Matthews, A., Hanrahan, K. and O'Donoghue, C. (2014) `Expanding agri-food production and employment in the presence of climate policy constraints: quantifying the trade-off in Ireland' In Zopounidis, C., Kalogeras, N., Mattas, K., Dijk, G., Baourakis, G. (Eds.) Agricultural Cooperative Management and Policy: New Robust, Reliable and Coherent Modelling Tools., Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Research Reports
- O’Donoghue et al. (2015) Teagasc Submission to Food Wise 2025
- Cathal O’Donoghue, Declan Troy, Stuart Green, Mary Ryan. (2014) Potential Agri-Food Investments under Junker’s European Investment Proposed Programme. Teagasc: Oak Park Carlow.
- Cathal O’Donoghue, Tom Curran, Kevin Hanrahan, Catherine Keena, Pearce Kelly, Paul Maher, James McDonnell, Pat Murphy, Ben Roche, Dan Clavin, Kevin Connolly, Reamonn Fealy, John Finn, Mark Gibson, Kevin Heanue, Maeve Henchion, Tim Hyde, David Meredith, Brian Moran, Aidan Murray, Fintan Phelan Mary Ryan. (2014) Teagasc Report on Costings Prepared by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for Schemes within the CAP Rural Development Programme. Teagasc: Oak Park Carlow.
- Cathal O’Donoghue, Roger Schulte, Kevin Hanrahan with Tom Burke, Marie Christie, Mark Fenelon, Pat Murphy, Lance O’Brien, Larry O’Loughlin, Robert Sherriff (2014). Submission to the Review of Ireland’s Foreign Policy and External Relations. Teagasc: Oak Park Carlow
- Kauppila, D., Kinsella, A., Loughrey, J., O’Donoghue, C., McDonnnell, J. and Thorne, F. (2013) Identifying and Managing Risks. National Dairy Conference Proceedings
- Morrissey,, K., M Cuddy, S. Hynes, and C. O’Donoghue (2011) Ireland’s Ocean Economy 2007. NUI Galway Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit.
- O’Donoghue, C., (2010). “The Macro-Economic Situation and Farm Incomes” in L. Connolly (ed.) Agricultural Outlook 2010. Teagasc: Rural Economy Research Centre.
- Breen J., T. Donnellan, K. Hanrahan, T. Hennessy, C. O’Donoghue, 2007. Trends in the Irish Agriculture and Rural Economy. Teagasc: Rural Economy Research Series.