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From the Smart City to Urban Artificial Intelligence: the Case of Guangzhou, China
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, Department of Geography, 2025)The thesis investigates the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and smart city initiatives within the urban governance framework of Guangzhou, China, with a focus on their influence on healthcare services and the ... -
The pivotal role of evaporation in lake water isotopic variability across space and time in a High Arctic periglacial landscape
(2024)Rapidly changing climate is disrupting the High Arctic's water systems. As tracers of hydrological processes, stable water isotopes can be used for high quality monitoring of Arctic waters to better reconstruct past ... -
Biogeochemical patterns during cold-water coral growth and their potential application for environmental interpretation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2016)In the light of changing marine environments as a consequence of climatic shifts it is essential to gain a better understanding of such vulnerable habitats especially when they are located out of sight in the deep sea. The ... -
Financialisation, West European banking groups and postsocialist transformation in East-Central Europe: Geographies of subnational banking in Croatia
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2024)The overarching aim of this dissertation is to examine the main drivers and manifestations of financialisation in the East-Central European periphery after the collapse of state socialism. To do this, the dissertation takes ... -
The Impact of Cost Rental Housing: Security, Affordability and Place
(The Housing Agency, 2024)Overall Cost Rental is extremely successful in creating secure homes and a sense of belonging and ownership among residents. Survey data shows that 80% of residents feel very secure, and 73% say they ‘never’ or ‘rarely’ ... -
From “Virtual Democracy” to Authocracy or Regime Diversity? Prospects for Democratisation in Africa
(James Currey, 2025)Much has been written about the nature of democracy in Africa, particularly in recent decades. After the end of the “first” Cold War, large parts of the continent appeared to be part of the “third wave” of democratization ... -
The 2024 Presidential Election in the US: Potential Impacts on Global Politics and Economics
(2024)The 2024 US presidential election will determine who will work with Congress to address three major fiscal issues: the expiration of key tax reforms from the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), the ongoing trade war with ... -
Inner-group and inter-group relations in Seoul participatory planning: revisiting the concept of social capital
(2023)This paper explores the composition of social relations in Korean community-led regeneration planning. Power dynamics among participants are understood as an important factor in shaping decision-making planning processes. ... -
Imagining diversity in Seoul: Gender and immigrant identities
(2022)While immigrant studies focus on the role of local-level migration and integration policies to respond to the immigrant groups in their areas, the research on how urban policies mediate the social inequality which ethnic ... -
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'Digital Provide' or Product Consumption Diffusion Cycle? The Diffusion Impact and Potential of Digital Technology in the Global South
(2024)The global digital divide is sometime presented as the primary obstacle to developmental convergence between world regions. On the other hand mobile phone and internet technology are at times seen as transformative innovations ... -
Between Energy and Politics: Ruin, Renewal, and the Contours of State Power in Post-Apartheid South Africa
(2024)South Africa’s energy system is in the midst of significant change and disturbance. On the one hand, a decrease in available generational capacity means that planned blackouts, known as load shedding, have increased to ... -
Dependence not Debt Trap Diplomacy
(2020)Every few years in the West – in the media and in political circles – there is a moral panic about the rise of China. Africa often plays a central role in this: as a supposedly predatory China is counterposed against r ... -
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 ... -
Multi-spatial-temporal remote sensing and machine learning for mapping management impacts on peatlands in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2024)Peatlands, constituting over half of terrestrial wetland ecosystems across the globe, hold critical ecological significance and are large stores of Carbon (C). In Ireland, the wetland landscape is dominated by rare oceanic ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Financial innovation for climate justice: central banks and transformative `creative disruption'
(2023)Global financial architectures, including central banks and their monetary policies, are critical to leveraging transformative change for climate justice. Yet, currently central banks are exacerbating rather than mitigating ... -
A national-scale assessment of land use change in peatlands between 1989 and 2020 using Landsat data and Google Earth Engine - a case study of Ireland
(Springer Nature, 2023)Maps accompanying Habib, Wahaj, 'A national-scale assessment of land use change in peatlands between 1989 and 2020 using Landsat data and Google Earth Engine: a case study of Ireland', Springer Nature, 2023 -
Two centuries of relative sea-level rise in Dublin, Ireland, reconstructed by geological tide gauge
(2023)We demonstrate the utility and reproducibility of the saltmarsh foraminifera-based ‘geological tide gauge’ (GTG) approach by developing two independent records of relative sea-level (RSL) change for Dublin, Ireland. Our ...