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Financial innovation for climate justice: central banks and transformative `creative disruption'
(2023)Global financial architectures, including central banks and their monetary policies, are critical to leveraging transformative change for climate justice. Yet, currently central banks are exacerbating rather than mitigating ... -
Financialisation, regional economic development and the coronavirus crisis: a time for spatial monetary policy?
(2021)This paper argues that ‘spatial monetary policy’ may be needed to achieve more territorially balanced economic development. Central banks have been key in fostering financialised economies while also preventing their ... -
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 ... -
Food Sharing Initiatives and Food Democracy: Practice and Policy in Three European Cities
(2019)Calls for greater food democracy in Europe have emerged as the limitations of urban food systems dominated by commercial organisations are documented, but little attention has been paid to how policy arrangements affect ... -
From "debt diplomacy" to donorship? China's changing role in global development
(2022)Since the mid-1990s the Chinese state and the country’s businesses have significantly increased their activity throughout the Global South. In International Development, China’s impacts on this varied meta-region have ... -
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 ... -
Geography and the matter of waste mobilities
(2012)It is the case that `all societies both throw things away and abandon them? (Gregson et al. 2007a, 697). Such divestment does not mean that those things, commonly called waste, cease to exist rather it often marks the ... -
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 ... -
Going Viral? The Impacts of COVID-19 on Sino-African Relations
(2021)How are we to understand the impacts of COVID-19 on geopolitics and specifically the relations between China and Africa? Is the pandemic a conjunctural event, which will not have lasting impacts, or does it represent a ... -
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 ... -
Greening the economy: interrogating sustainability innovations beyond the mainstream
(2011)Current international economic and environmental conditions have led to increasing calls for alternative pathways of development. Globally the language of a green economy is being promoted as a means to develop a `win-win? ... -
Hard borders and soft agreements: Evaluating governance within the Global Compact for Migration
(Routledge, 2023)Welcomed as a milestone in the governance of transnational migration, the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration marked a significant step forward in international cooperation on migration ... -
High-resolution remote sensing data and machine learning approaches for mapping and monitoring habitats
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2024)The increasing decline in the status of habitats, mainly due to anthropogenic stressors, has spurred the development and implementation of many conservation-related legislation. This legislation involves mapping, a critical ... -
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 ...