Browsing Geography (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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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 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Karstification and groundwater-surface water interactions in the Meath-Westmeath lakeland region
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)This thesis investigates the degree of karstification and the characteristics of groundwater - surface water interactions in the Meath-Westmeath Lakeland region. In particular, groundwater - lake interactions in the region ... -
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 ... -
The Land of the Chiefs and the Land of the State - What happens after an acquisition in Ghana?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2020)In Africa the importance of land cannot be overstated given that many rural livelihoods depend on farming for subsistence. Yet, where international land acquisitions are concerned, the majority take place on the African ... -
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, ... -
Late Devensian and holocene relative sea-level change around Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2007)Late Devensian and Holocene Relative Sea-Level Change Around Ireland. All records of Irish sea level since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) reflect the interplay of both glacio-isostatic and eustatic components with the ... -
Lifeworlds : literary geographies in 1930s Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2006)This study examines the various representations of place by Irish writers who published English language novels between 1929-1939. The aim of the study was to explore the various affective and subjective dimensions of place ... -
Managing Ireland's visual amenity : an evaluation of visual impact assessment practice and local authority management policies for the visual amenity in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2005)The EU Directive (85/337/EEC) introduced the requirement to conduct EIA for major developments in 1988 and the new Planning and Development Act in 2000 introduced the requirement that all planning applications be evaluated ... -
Micro-enterprises and their supporting organisations
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2004)This study endeavours to develop a model which will present the characteristics of entrepreneurs, their micro-enterprises and their interaction with external enterprise promoting organisations. The research aim is to ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
