Cathal Geoghegan

Biography

Cathal completed a PhD at the University of Galway titled ‘Understanding the Economics of Land Access in Ireland’. The thesis examined how agricultural land markets operate in Ireland and farmer attitudes towards land mobility. Following his PhD, Cathal has worked with the BiOrbic Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre on impact assessments of new bioeconomy sectors and on Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland funded projects examining agricultural land use in relation to bioenergy. Cathal is currently a postdoctoral researcher in SEMRU. His current research involves the development of a spatially explicit modelling framework for the assessment of socio-economic and environmental impacts of Ireland’s marine activities   

Research Interests

Marine economics 

Input-output modelling 

Environmental economics 

Land use 

Renewable energy 

Publications and Other Outputs

Loughrey, J., & Geoghegan, C. (2024). Learning from Agricultural Land Market Regulation Policies in EU Member States. The Economic and Social Review, 55(2, Summer), 245-271. 

O’Donoghue, C., O’Fatharta, E., Geoghegan, C., & Ryan, M. (2024). Farmland afforestation: Forest optimal rotation ages across discrete optimisation objectives. Land Use Policy, 139, 107091. 

Geoghegan, C., & O'Donoghue, C. (2023). An analysis of the social and private return to land use change from agriculture to renewable energy production in Ireland. Journal of Cleaner Production, 385, 135698. 

Geoghegan, C., O'Donoghue, C., & Loughrey, J. (2022). The local economic impact of climate change mitigation in agriculture. Bio-based and Applied Economics, 11(4), 323-337. 

O'Donoghue, C., Geoghegan, C., Hynes, S., Farrell, N., O'Leary, J., & Tsakiridis, A. (2021). Impact Assessment Modelling for the Ocean Economy: A Review of Developments. Journal of Ocean and Coastal Economics, 8(2), 9.