Browsing Geography (Theses and Dissertations) by Date of Publication
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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 ... -
On constructing urban travel scales for analysing daily travel patterns : the case of the Greater Dublin Area, Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2006)Over the last decade the Greater Dublin Area has witnessed significant land use and spatial restructuring. This has forced a distinct change in the spatial organisation of the built environment. Dublin has been transformed ... -
An historical geography of social class in early nineteenth-century Dun Laoghaire
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2006)The remit of this study is to explore the relationship between class and place through a local case study. The geographical region under consideration in this thesis is the south-east of Co. Dublin, centred on the town of ... -
An examination of public attitudes and behaviour towards waste management: the case of Galway
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2006)An examination of public attitudes and behaviour towards waste management: The case of Galway. In recent years waste and general environmental issues have become an area of prime concern for national governments, policymakers ... -
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 ... -
Shaping the symbolic landscape : public monuments in Nairobi, 1899-1992
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2007)Geography is centrally concerned with the landscape. Landscape, in this thesis, is viewed and analysed as a cultural product, shaped by human processes and ideologies. Informed, primarily, by the cultural-historical ... -
The provision of public planning information and services on the Internet by Irish Local Authorities : a user centric perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2007)The Internet is increasingly used to disseminate local government information and to provide public services. Although this is still a developing area of research, the needs of users of local government information are ... -
Taking Liberties : entrepreneurial governance and gentrification in inner Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2008)This thesis is centrally concerned with the relationship between capital, the state and disadvantaged inner-city communities. The overall objective of this research is to review the structural forces underlying the recent ... -
Evaluating digital change detection techniques for landscape monitoring in a data-poor tropical environment. A case study of New Providence Island, The Bahamas
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2008)This thesis addresses the problems associated with conducting remotely sensed change detection for landscape monitoring in tropical island environments, with poor data accessibility and availability. The common unavailability ... -
A political ecology approach to extra-legal rural livelihoods : a Lesotho-based case study of cultivation of and trade in cannabis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2008)Rural livelihood strategies that in part comprise criminalised activities and hidden economies are an important, yet understudied, aspect of achieving economic diversification in many less developed regions. Drawing ... -
Governmentality and locality : an historical geography of rural district councils in Ireland, 1898-1925
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2008)This thesis examines the introduction and operation of the rural district council network in Ireland between 1898 and 1925. Foucault’s theory of governmentality and Bellamy’s theory of central- local relations have been ... -
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 ... -
Government or governance of urban planning? : Issues and evidence from Dublin
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)The objective of this thesis is to contribute to the understanding of the urban environment, more specifically its planning and governing processes through the empirical investigation of the notion of governance. The first ... -
Neoliberalism and the Irish welfare state : public private partnerships in the delivery of schools and social-housing regeneration
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)This project examines the policy background and decision-making process that led to the introduction of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the delivery of public services and infrastructure in Ireland. It draws on ... -
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, ... -
An analysis of urban public space in three European cities : London, Dublin and Amsterdam
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)This thesis sets out to enquire into the relationship between recent urban transformation and urban public space in three European cities: London, Dublin and Amsterdam. This involves an analysis of the manner in which ... -
From corporations to commissioners : municipal government and urban change in Leinster, 1835-65
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2009)Following an 1835 report, a process of reform of Irish town government took place. This thesis examines the process and the major shift which occurred in the government of market towns in Leinster between 1835 and 1865. ... -
Environmental risk communications : waste, incineration and dioxins
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2010)Industrialisation and modern technologies have contributed to economic and social progress, but the benefits are being eroded by the environmental and health risks associated with these technologies. Against this backdrop, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...