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A 'Bandung' View of the World: The Political Economy of Sino-South African Megaprojects
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2020)China's emergence as a significant actor in Africa's political economy has become a major topic in both academic and popular circles. Precipitated by a confluence of domestic politico-economic factors and an increasingly ... -
Barriers and stimulants to the development of university-industry links : perspectives from the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2004)The aim of this research is to investigate barriers and stimulants to the development of university-industry (U-I) links in the Republic of Ireland (hereafter referred to as Ireland) from the perspectives of academia, ... -
Biodiversity politics : policy, planning and public understandings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)The past fifty years have seen dramatic losses in biodiversity and associated ecosystem services despite increased environmental policy at global, EU, national and local scales. Increasingly, biodiversity policy has moved ... -
BRICS’ Enlargement: Power Expansion or Contraction in a Changing World Order?
(2024)The BRICS’ expansion should be seen in the context of an ongoing challenge to the international order in general, and the West’s competition with China and Russia in particular ■ China views the current difficulties ... -
Channel adjustment to extreme floods in arid central Australia.
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China's Spatial Fix and 'Debt Diplomacy' in Africa
(2022)Mounting overaccumulation of capital and material has compelled the Chinese government to seek solutions overseas. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), with its transregional infrastructure projects connecting Eurasia and ... -
Climate change and political (in)action: an intergenerational epistemic divide?
(2021)This paper critically examines the constructed narrative that there is an epistemic intergenerational divide on the topic of climate change, climate science, and the political actions necessary to address the most urgent ... -
Climate justice : a multi-scalar analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2014)The thesis first explores, summarises and evaluates the diffuse climate justice literature in Chapter 2. The review reveals climate justice as a concern for various disciplines, including Economics, Political Science, ... -
Climate Smart: geography, place and climate change adaptation education
(2024)Geographical education provides a unique space for supporting climate literacy and action. In this paper we present a novel place-based online educational resource platform - Climate Smart – which seeks to expand the ... -
Community Self-Organizing and the Urban Food Commons in Berlin and New York
(2019)Food sharing and food commons have both been raised as possible solutions to unsustainable and unjust urban food systems. This paper draws upon ethnographic research conducted in Berlin and New York to examine self-organizing ... -
Connective Consumptions: Mapping Melbourne's Food Sharing Ecosystem
(2018)Food sharing, understood as the collaborative growing, cooking, eating and distributing of food, as well as the sharing of food related skills, spaces and tools, is experiencing a renaissance in cities. From meal sharing ... -
Contribution of submarine groundwater discharge(SGD) to the marine carbonate biogeochemistry of the Western Irish Coastal Sea
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)The main objective of this study was to investigate the coastal carbonate chemistry in the Irish coastal seas, and specifically to understand the role of Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) in the coastal biogeochemical ... -
Cooking and eating together in London: Food sharing initiatives as collective spaces of encounter
(2019)Commensality, the act of eating together, is an important human ritual that benefits beyond the biological need for food and it is well established amongst food studies scholars. At the same time, novel forms of social ... -
Correspondence, power and the state : an historical geography of the Irish Postal Service, 1784-1831
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2006)An Historical Geography of the Irish Postal Service, 1784-1831 Summary The aim of this thesis is to outHne an historical geography of the Irish postal service during the period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth ... -
COVID 19 in the Global South: Impacts and Responses.
(Bristol University/Policy Press in Association with the Development Studies Association of Ireland, 2020)The world has been convulsed by the COVID- 19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic. The virus has caused untold misery both directly and indirectly to people around the world and its effect on societies and ... -
Creating careful circularities: Community composting in New York City
(2022)While matters of food waste and soil have become vital research arenas, compost remains the Cinderella of human geographical enquiry. In response, this paper brings compost to the centre of debates at the intersection ... -
Cultural landscape conservation in the Boyne Valley Archaeological Park, Counties Meath and Louth, Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2000)The establishment of the Boyne Valley Archaeological Park in 1987 and its subsequent designation as a World Heritage Property in 1993 were significant steps in landscape conservation in Ireland. For the first time, the ...