His academic work has focused on the political geography of shanty towns and the degradation of the tropical rain forest.
[9] In Slow death of a tropical rainforest: The Cockpit Country of Jamaica, West Indies (1994) Eyre proposed that the Cockpit Country, Jamaica's largest remaining contiguous rainforest be zoned a World Heritage Site in the face of continuing encroachment and degradation, despite proposals for protection having originated as early as Cotterell (1979) and Aiken (1986).
Eyre's study was one of the main academic starting points for a petition sponsored by the Cockpit Country Stakeholders' Group and Jamaica Environmental Advocacy Network which was submitted to Prime Minister Bruce Golding in 2006.
[10] For a partial bibliography of Eyre's many papers on peri-urban geography see Robert B. Potter, Dennis Conway (eds), Self-Help Housing, the Poor, and the State in the Caribbean, University of Tennessee Press, 1997, p. 101.
Eyre's religious publications primarily concern the Polish Brethren and other antecedents of Christadelphian and Biblical Unitarian views: