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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 ... -
Holocene environmental change in the Albertine Rift : sediment-based evidence from Virunga volcanoes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2012)The Albertine Rift is one of the most important conservation areas in tropical Africa, with exceptionally high levels of biodiversity (including rare and endemic montane flora and fauna) and high human population densities. ... -
Holocene-aged inudation, vegetation, and early rice-based agriculture on former settlement sites on the Southern Yangtze Delta of China : a geoarchaeological investigation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2015)The Southern Yangtze Delta was one of the key locations for development of early rice-based agriculture in China. Early Neolithic and Bronze-age communities on the delta are thought to have been closely associated with the ... -
Holocene-aged sedimentary records of environmental changes and early agriculture in the lower Yangtze, China
(2008)Sedimentary evidence from a total of 21 AMS 14C dates and 192 pollen and charcoal and 181 phytolith samples from three study sites in the archaeologically rich lower Yangtze in China provides an indication of interactions ... -
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Human Footprints on the Global Environment: Threats to Sustainability by Eugene A. Rosa, Andreas Diekmann, Thomas Dietz, & Carlo Jaeger (Eds.)
(ProQuest CSA, 2010)The topic of global environmental change (GEC) is of urgent importance today. To address planetary scale problems like climate change, biodiversity loss, or overconsumption it is important to understand the causes and ... -
ICT mediated food sharing and food transitions towards sustainable food systems in Singapore
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2021)With projected population growth of 9.1 billion people by 2050, and accelerated planetary urbanization quickly approaching, there is growing concern regarding the unsustainability of cities. Urban food systems are a focal ... -
Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: an interdisciplinary overview using the expert community approach
(2022)The major event that hit Europe in summer 2021 reminds society that floods are recurrent and among the costliest and deadliest natural hazards. The long-term flood risk management (FRM) efforts preferring sole technical ... -
Identifying the determinants of Brazilian migration to and from Ireland: a micro-level cross-country analysis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)Brazilian migration since the 1990s has given rise to what is now the largest non-EU immigrant group residing in Ireland (CSO, 2016). However, the determinants of Brazilian migration to Ireland have been considered only ... -
Incorporating dissent in the renewal of Dublin's inner city : engagements between the local state and inner-city communities in Dublin's Liberties
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2011)This research addresses a crucial silence in the Irish neoliberal discourse, the voices and struggles of working-class communities resident in those areas in which the state pursued its neoliberal urban-development agenda ... -
Innovative solutions to address the humanitarian-development nexus : Review of the pilot introduction of the Blended Approach at GOAL
(goalglobal.org, 2020)In 2018 GOAL received support from the Department Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Irish Aid, to pilot a new funding modality – the “blended approach” - intended to bridge the humanitarian-development divide through closer ... -
Interrogating the Poverty Impact of Gold Mining at the Community Level in Ghana.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2023)Many studies show a negative correlation at the national level between natural resource wealth and poverty reduction ? the so-called 'resource curse'. However, this may not hold at the local level. For example, the incidence ... -
Intra EU Mobility of Third-Country Nationals: Ireland
(Report prepared for the European Commission Directorate-General Home Affairs and published by the ES, 2013-03-21)This study, compiled according to commonly agreed specifications, provides an overview of the key issues and challenges that are apparent in relation to the intra-EU mobility of third-country nationals to and from Ireland. ... -
An Investigation of The Effect of Low Impact Shock Processes on Breakdown of Sandstone at Meteor Crater
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2019)Impact cratering is one of the most common geologic processes shaping all the terrestrial planetary bodies and moons in our solar system. The widespread presence of craters on terrestrial planets and moon in the inner solar ... -
An investigation of the effects of submarine groundwater discharge on the coastal carbon and nutrient cycles of a karstic aquifer, Kinvara Bay, Co Galway, Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2018)Summary Submarine Groundwater Discharge (SGD) is an important pathway of terrestrial nutrients to the coastal ocean. The influence of SGD on the carbon cycle in coastal zones and the relationship between SGD-borne carbon ... -
Irish community-based social enterprises : an investigation into their rationale, activities and motivations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)The subject of this thesis was community-based social enterprises in Ireland, especially relating to two questions - why were social enterprises established and why did social enterprises continue to exist? The outcomes ... -
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 ... -
Is there a new climate politics? Emergency, Engagement and Justice,
(2021)Addressing climate change globally requires significant transformations of production and consumption systems. The language around climate action has shifted tangibly over the last five years to reflect this. Indeed, ...