Browsing Geography (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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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 ... -
Incorporating dissent in the renewal of Dublin's inner city : engagements between the local state and inner-city communities in Dublin's Liberties
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2011)This research addresses a crucial silence in the Irish neoliberal discourse, the voices and struggles of working-class communities resident in those areas in which the state pursued its neoliberal urban-development agenda ... -
Interrogating the Poverty Impact of Gold Mining at the Community Level in Ghana.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2023)Many studies show a negative correlation at the national level between natural resource wealth and poverty reduction ? the so-called 'resource curse'. However, this may not hold at the local level. For example, the incidence ... -
An Investigation of The Effect of Low Impact Shock Processes on Breakdown of Sandstone at Meteor Crater
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2019)Impact cratering is one of the most common geologic processes shaping all the terrestrial planetary bodies and moons in our solar system. The widespread presence of craters on terrestrial planets and moon in the inner solar ... -
An investigation of the effects of submarine groundwater discharge on the coastal carbon and nutrient cycles of a karstic aquifer, Kinvara Bay, Co Galway, Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2018)Summary Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is an important pathway of terrestrial nutrients to the coastal ocean. The influence of SGD on the carbon cycle in coastal zones and the relationship between SGD-borne carbon ... -
Irish community-based social enterprises : an investigation into their rationale, activities and motivations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)The subject of this thesis was community-based social enterprises in Ireland, especially relating to two questions - why were social enterprises established and why did social enterprises continue to exist? The outcomes ... -
Irish housing and the global financial crisis of urbanisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2013)Due to a confluence of consecutive crisis events in Ireland since the global financial crisis of 2008 and under the greatly contracted credit cycle and debt-crisis of the Euro-area, global capital flows into Ireland's built ... -
Karstification and groundwater-surface water interactions in the Meath-Westmeath lakeland region
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)This thesis investigates the degree of karstification and the characteristics of groundwater - surface water interactions in the Meath-Westmeath Lakeland region. In particular, groundwater - lake interactions in the region ...
