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, ...

This thesis concerns the history of the European Union's Natura 2000 network of protected areas, established under the Birds Directive (1979) and the Habitats Directive (1992), and the light this history sheds on: the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Martian surface is geomorphologically active, with a variety of mass?wasting, erosional and depositional features that form and change in the current climate. Many of these features have analogues on Earth (e.g. ...

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 ...

This thesis has collated and consolidated existing datasets on natural resources and pollution for the Negril and Green Island watersheds in Western Jamaica. It developed techniques to assess the state of the environment ...

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 ...

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 ...