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Managing Ireland's visual amenity : an evaluation of visual impact assessment practice and local authority management policies for the visual amenity in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2005)The EU Directive (85/337/EEC) introduced the requirement to conduct EIA for major developments in 1988 and the new Planning and Development Act in 2000 introduced the requirement that all planning applications be evaluated ... -
Mapping Land use on Irish peatlands using medium resolution satellite imagery
(2018)The EU is committed to quantifying greenhouse gas emissions and removals from land use, land use change and forestry, including wetlands. Wetlands and peatlands will play a central role in achieving temperature goals agreed ... -
Mars global digital dune database and initial science results
(2007)A new Mars Global Digital Dune Database (MGD 3 ) constructed using Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) infrared (IR) images provides a comprehensive and quantitative view of the geographic distribution of moderate- ... -
Medieval Irish chronicles reveal persistent volcanic forcing of severe winter cold events, 431 - 1649 CE
(2013)Explosive volcanism resulting in stratospheric injection of sulfate aerosol is a major driver of regional to global climatic variability on interannual and longer timescales. However, much of our knowledge of the climatic ... -
Meta-trends in Global Value Chains and Development: Interacting Impacts with COVID-19 in Africa
(2020)How will the COVID-19 pandemic affect prospects for foreign investment and development in Africa? In part this depends on its interaction with pre-existing meta-trends in the global economy, such as the rise of China and ... -
Micro-enterprises and their supporting organisations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2004)This study endeavours to develop a model which will present the characteristics of entrepreneurs, their micro-enterprises and their interaction with external enterprise promoting organisations. The research aim is to ... -
Modelling ecological pressures and responses in a west of Ireland lake
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2013)Effective lake management requires an understanding of aquatic ecological pressure response relationships. Deciphering the aquatic effects of multiple ecological pressures, such as climate variability and human activity, ... -
Modelling the Development of Rocky Shoreline Profiles along the Northern Coast of Ireland
(2013)A mathematical wave-erosion model is used to simulate postglacial shoreline profiles along the rocky, high energy coast of the north of Ireland. The wave erosion model is driven by a suite of relative sea-level (RSL) curves ... -
Modelling the response of freshwaters to catchment-scale phosphorus loading and mitigation in the Irish Ecoregion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2012)Freshwater eutrophication, caused by over-enrichment by P as a result of anthropogenic activity, is increasing worldwide. In response, ROMs that seek to reduce and reverse eutrophication and its effects through the mitigation ... -
Multi-spatial-temporal remote sensing and machine learning for mapping management impacts on peatlands in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2024)Peatlands, constituting over half of terrestrial wetland ecosystems across the globe, hold critical ecological significance and are large stores of Carbon (C). In Ireland, the wetland landscape is dominated by rare oceanic ... -
Multiple Disadvantage in Ireland: An Equality Analysis of Census 2006
(The Equality Authority and the ESRI, 2012-03-23)This report draws on the full 2006 Census microdata file to examine the effects of belonging to groups who are disadvantaged according to the nine grounds identified in Equality Legislation (gender, civil status, family ... -
Nation, empire and identity : monumental landscapes of the Duke of Wellington in nineteenth-century Ireland, Scotland and Wales
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2012)This work comprises an analysis of the symbolic landscapes created by all the publicly placed, free-standing monuments dedicated to Sir Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, in Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Through ... -
National education and the state : an historical geography of the emergence of national education in pre-Famine Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2014)This thesis examines the geography of the national education system in pre-Famine Ireland. Foucault's theory of governmentality and Jessop's strategic-relational approach have been utilised to situate this study in a broader ... -
A national-scale assessment of land use change in peatlands between 1989 and 2020 using Landsat data and Google Earth Engine: a case study of Ireland
(Springer Nature, 2023)Maps accompanying Habib, Wahaj, 'A national-scale assessment of land use change in peatlands between 1989 and 2020 using Landsat data and Google Earth Engine: a case study of Ireland', Springer Nature, 2023 -
Neighbourhood regeneration in the neoliberal era : Dublin and Paris, a comparative perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)This thesis is centrally concerned with changes in state policies. The research aims to trace the evolution of urban regeneration policies in two different geographical contexts, paying attention to both temporal and ... -
Neoliberalism and the Irish welfare state : public private partnerships in the delivery of schools and social-housing regeneration
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)This project examines the policy background and decision-making process that led to the introduction of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of public services and infrastructure in Ireland. It draws on ... -
Networked Geographies of Digital Contention in Post‐Financial Crisis Ireland
(2019)The language of networks has become a common conceptual framework for describing contemporary, digitally-engaged social movements. In this paper I addresses the subject of digital contention from a geographical perspective, ...