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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 ... -
Sea levels: science & society
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Seeds of change? Social practices of urban community seed sharing initiatives for just transitions to sustainability
(2022)The sharing of seeds is a practice with ancient roots. However, the structures of global agri-food trade in late modernity have drastically reconfigured practices of exchange and reshaped matters of legal ownership, resulting ... -
SHARE IT: co-designing a sustainability impact assessment framework for urban food sharing initiatives
(2019)Urban food systems must undergo a significant transformation if they are to avoid impeding the achievement of UN Sustainable Development Goals. One reconfiguration with claimed sustainability benefits is ICT-mediated food ... -
Sharing food and risk in Berlin’s urban food commons
(2019)Public fridges are open-access community-stewarded spaces where food can be freely and anonymously shared. As such, they are fertile ground for understanding the obstacles and opportunities for governing food as a commons. ... -
Silicon Valley in Eastern Slovakia? Neo-liberalism, knowledge economy and post-socialism.
(2013)The essay critically examines the prospect of emulating a Silicon Valley-style regional development in the post-socialist context of East-Central Europe. It underlines the problematic nature of the Silicon Valley concept ... -
Sustainable development and dispersed rural housing : an analysis of policy and practices
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2012)Building on analyses of the merits/drawbacks of employing a strategic spatial planning agenda to promote the sustainable development of rural areas (Hadjmichalis, 2003; Scott 2005), this research conducts an in-depth ... -
Taking Liberties : entrepreneurial governance and gentrification in inner Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2008)This thesis is centrally concerned with the relationship between capital, the state and disadvantaged inner-city communities. The overall objective of this research is to review the structural forces underlying the recent ... -
Tenant participation and estate management : empowering tenants?
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The changing role of Irish urban planning under a neoliberal agenda : evidence from Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2012)This research is concerned with Irish urban planning; in particular, it investigates how the neoliberal consensus was adopted on the political agenda in the 1980s by infusing economic policy at the central state ... -
The effects of human-wildlife conflict on conservation and development : a case study of Volcanoes National Park, northern Rwanda
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2014)Rising global population pressure and associated increases in demands for natural resources have resulted in heightened pressure on areas containing valued biodiversity. Efforts to assist the development of marginalised ... -
The Great Famine : a geography of distress and relief in County Donegal, 1845-50
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2004)The aim of this thesis is to provide an explanatory narrative for the geography of distress and relief in Co. Donegal during the Great Famine. A further critical component seeks to set Donegal within a western seaboard and ... -
The role of housing associations in the housing market in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2005)Housing associations have played an increasingly prominent role in the delivery of social housing in recent years. The early 1990s marked a shift in government policy away from reliance on direct local-authority provision ...