Browsing Geography (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Ecological alterations associated with Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD), utilising Stable Isotope Analysis (SIA)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2014)Research was conducted in three systems over two ecoregions to examine the ecological impacts associated with SGD. The potential applications of stable isotope analysis (SIA) in the field of SGD ecological research were ... -
Effect of groundwater-surface interactions on coastal areas hosting aquaculture activities
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)Submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) is crucial for the nutrient budgets of coastal areas and global oceans. However, its role in the function of coastal ecosystems is still poorly characterised. This study aimed to (1) ... -
Environmental offsets in Colombia: Policy, practice and conflict
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2021)Environmental offsets aim to find a balance between economic growth and biodiversity conservation by compensating for the adverse environmental impacts of development. In Colombia, environmental offsets are being put forward ... -
Environmental risk communications : waste, incineration and dioxins
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)Industrialisation and modern technologies have contributed to economic and social progress, but the benefits are being eroded by the environmental and health risks associated with these technologies. Against this backdrop, ... -
Evaluating digital change detection techniques for landscape monitoring in a data-poor tropical environment. A case study of New Providence Island, The Bahamas
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2008)This thesis addresses the problems associated with conducting remotely sensed change detection for landscape monitoring in tropical island environments, with poor data accessibility and availability. The common unavailability ... -
Evaluation of nitrate fluxes into a coastal lagoon through Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2016)Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) delivers substantial land-derived nitrate (NO3-) to coastal regions, which potentially influences the environmental status and ecological balance in the receiving water. A systematic ... -
Exploring gender and climate justice: A multiscalar analysis of gender mainstreaming in climate change adaption. evidence from Malawi
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2019)Climate change impacts are differentiated between communities and individuals, and adaptive capacity is determined by underlying social and economic factors, such as gender. There is a growing emphasis on differing impacts ... -
Food risk governance in Ireland : regulation, communication and biosecurity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2013)Issues of biosecurity (commonly defined as "making life safe") are relevant to the arena of food risk governance. Certainly, the complex and varied food safety controls that exist today can be described as attempting to ... -
From corporations to commissioners : municipal government and urban change in Leinster, 1835-65
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)Following an 1835 report, a process of reform of Irish town government took place. This thesis examines the process and the major shift which occurred in the government of market towns in Leinster between 1835 and 1865. ... -
Garden tourism in Ireland : an exploration of product group co-operation, links and relationships
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)This thesis explores the use of co-operative approaches, links and relationships that exist (or not) in the garden tourism sector, and whether the sector constitutes sustainable tourism provision. A brief history of gardens ... -
Geographical information and privacy : an examination of the relationship between privacy, data protection and digitally-stored personal geographical information in Ireland in the 1990s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2000)Geographical Information (GI) has traditionally been an instrument of power used particularly by governments and other organisations with the large resources needed to utilise such an expensive resource. Recent developments ... -
Globalisation from below : exploring the economic development impacts of private Chinese SME investment in Accra, Ghana
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2015)Relations with China are increasingly a key driver of economic development on the African continent. For example, in 2012 China was Africa’s largest trading partner with imports of $85.38 billion and exports of $113.1 ... -
Government or governance of urban planning? : Issues and evidence from Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)The objective of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the urban environment, more specifically its planning and governing processes through the empirical investigation of the notion of governance. The first ... -
Governmentality and locality : an historical geography of rural district councils in Ireland, 1898-1925
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2008)This thesis examines the introduction and operation of the rural district council network in Ireland between 1898 and 1925. Foucault’s theory of governmentality and Bellamy’s theory of central- local relations have been ... -
Grassroot Geographic Information Systems : an examination of spatial information technologies in the local community context: the case of Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2004)Grassroots Geographic Information Systems : An Examination of Spatial Information Technologies in the Local Community Context: The Case of Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland. The use of Information and Communications Technologies ... -
Historical geographies of Dublin's public green spaces, from their origins to 1756
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2005)The remit of this work is to provide a model of analysis for the evolution of public green spaces in an urban environment, through space and time. The geographical region examined in this thesis is Dublin, and the time ... -
Holocene environmental change in the Albertine Rift : sediment-based evidence from Virunga volcanoes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2012)The Albertine Rift is one of the most important conservation areas in tropical Africa, with exceptionally high levels of biodiversity (including rare and endemic montane flora and fauna) and high human population densities. ... -
Holocene-aged inudation, vegetation, and early rice-based agriculture on former settlement sites on the Southern Yangtze Delta of China : a geoarchaeological investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2015)The Southern Yangtze Delta was one of the key locations for development of early rice-based agriculture in China. Early Neolithic and Bronze-age communities on the delta are thought to have been closely associated with the ... -
ICT mediated food sharing and food transitions towards sustainable food systems in Singapore
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2021)With projected population growth of 9.1 billion people by 2050, and accelerated planetary urbanization quickly approaching, there is growing concern regarding the unsustainability of cities. Urban food systems are a focal ... -
Identifying the determinants of Brazilian migration to and from Ireland: a micro-level cross-country analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)Brazilian migration since the 1990s has given rise to what is now the largest non-EU immigrant group residing in Ireland (CSO, 2016). However, the determinants of Brazilian migration to Ireland have been considered only ...
