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Of mines and markets : Labour regimes and agency in Chinese-structured GPNs in Zambia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2013)Over the last ten years, the presence of Chinese capital on the African continent has vastly increased. Investors are creating thousands of jobs in a variety of sectors, integrating African workers and consumers into ... -
Office suburbanisation in Dublin : user-demand, urban planning and property development
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2004)This thesis explores the underlying dynamics which have brought about the geographical shift of office development to new suburban sites during Dublin’s fourth office development boom (1995 -2001). The role of end-user ... -
On constructing urban travel scales for analysing daily travel patterns : the case of the Greater Dublin Area, Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2006)Over the last decade the Greater Dublin Area has witnessed significant land use and spatial restructuring. This has forced a distinct change in the spatial organisation of the built environment. Dublin has been transformed ... -
Overcoming the social stigma of consuming food waste by dining at the Open Table
(2021)Stigma is often encountered by recipients who receive food donations from charities, while the consumption of wasted food, also traditionally considered to be a stigmatized practice, has recently become part of a popular ... -
Participating in food waste transitions: Exploring surplus food redistribution in Singapore through the ecologies of participation framework
(2021)Food waste is a global societal meta-challenge requiring a sustainability transition involving everyone, including publics. However, to date, much transitions research has been silent on the role of public participation ... -
Past, current and future Interactions between pressures, chemicaL status and bioLogical qUality eleMents for lakes IN contrAsting catchmenTs in IrEland (ILLUMINATE)
(2010-10-17)The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Ireland-funded project `Past, current and future interactions between pressures, chemical status and biological quality elements for lakes in contrasting catchments in Ireland? ... -
Planetary Aeolian Geomorphology
(Wiley, 2019)Aeolian processes play an essential role not only in the dynamics of beaches and deserts on the Earth, but also contribute to surface landforms on several bodies in our solar system. -
Post-glacial relative sea-level observations from Ireland and their role in glacial rebound modelling
(John Wiley, 2008)The British Isles have been the focus of a number of recent modelling studies owing to the existence of a high-quality sea-level dataset for this region and the suitability of these data for constraining shallow earth ... -
The power of platforms—precarity and place
(2023)The expanding scale and scope of digital platforms in our lives seem undeniable as they restructure commerce, communication, work, finance, popular culture, and private and public services. However, despite their ubiquity ... -
Practical Measures for Reducing Irregular Migration: Ireland
(Report prepared for the European Commission Directorate-General Home Affairs and published by the ES, 2012-03-30)This study investigates practical measures for reducing irregular migration in Ireland. Irish policy towards irregular migration is influenced by the State?s geographical position, at the north-western periphery of Europe, ... -
Progress Report. Sea levels: resolution and uncertainty
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Public awareness and performance relating to the implementation of a low-carbon economy in China: a case study from Zhengzhou
(2011)This paper aims to examine levels of awareness and performance relating to the promotion of a Low-carbon economy (LCE) among the general public in Zhengzhou, China. The data and information used were derived from 300 ... -
[Re]Valuing Surplus: Transitions, technologies and tensions in redistributing prepared food in San Francisco
(2018)Attention to value, exchange and circulation has long been a central feature of trade flow analyses. More recently, scholars have sought to extend these frames to examine the ongoing movements of end-of-life goods; essentially ... -
Reassessing transfer-function performance in sea-level reconstruction based on benthic salt-marsh foraminifera from the Atlantic Coast of NE North America
(Elsevier, 2011)The need to increase the number and distribution of sea-level records spanning the last few hundred years has led to particular interest in developing high-precision, geologically based sea-level reconstructions that capture ... -
Recent aeolian erosion and deposition in the north polar plateau of Mars.
(2007)Background: Planum Boreum, the north polar plateau of Mars, displays four extensive low-albedo regions covered with widespread se dimentary deposits that are thick enough to partly or completely suppress the signature ... -
Recent developments in planetary Aeolian studies and their terrestrial analogs
(2013)This paper summarizes the many advances that have been made in the study of planetary Aeolian processes that have taken place since the first Planetary Dunes Workshop was held in May of 2008, through 2011. Many of the ... -
Regulating urban food sharing: policy, practice and food democracy goals
(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 ... -
The relationship between poverty and prosperity: a feminist relational account
(2022)In this paper I use a feminist relational approach to critically examine contemporary mainstream assumptions in the field of development concerning the relationship between poverty and prosperity. I show how these ... -
Relative sea-level change around the Irish coast
(Atlantis Press, 2017)An accurate picture of relative sea-level (RSL) change is a prerequisite for understanding the Quaternary history of Ireland. Consequently, sea-level research has been a prominent feature of Irish Quaternary science since ...