Browsing Geography (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin."
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Lake sediment-based reconstructions of variations in levels of deposition of atmospheric pollutants from the industrial-scale combustion of fossil fuels and ecosystem response at three remote Irish lake sites
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)Humans have greatly manipulated the environment over the last 200 years through processes of industrialisation, urbanisation and agricultural intensification. As a result, levels of anthropogenic air pollution have increased ... -
Landforms and hydrology of the lowland karst of County Roscommon, Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)Karst is a significant aspect of the landscape of Ireland as more the half the island is underlain by limestone. Roscommon is located in Ireland's western karstic lowlands. The majority of Roscommon is underlain by clean, ... -
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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Towards a future of sustainable consumption : a practice oriented, participatory backcasting approach for sustainable washing and heating practices in Irish households
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2013)How to encourage a shift to more sustainable practices of household water and energy consumption and what these practices might involve is at the heart of this thesis. While production processes and resource efficiency ... -
With the eyes of history : the Natura 2000 network, acute land use conflicts, and the future of EU biodiversity policy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2014)This thesis concerns the history of the European Union's Natura 2000 network of protected areas, established under the Birds Directive (1979) and the Habitats Directive (1992), and the light this history sheds on: the ...