Geography: Recent submissions
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Understanding the Lived Experiences of Gender Minority Students in Irish Third-Level Education
(Trinity College Dublin, 2019)This report provides the main analytical results of a survey distributed to gender minority students (i.e. transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming) in Irish higher education (Third-Level). The survey touched ... -
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 ... -
Loves me, loves me not: The Museum of Broken Relationships scene analysis
(2014)The Balkan region is known for its historical climate of turbulent social relations; thus, public spaces that consecrate shared experiences of grief and loss come as no surprise. One such space, however, has experienced ... -
Late Quaternary sea-level change and evolution of Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland: new offshore evidence and implications for sea-level reconstruction
(2019)The interplay of eustatic and isostatic factors causes complex relative sea‐level (RSL) histories, particularly in paraglacial settings. In this context the past record of RSL is important in understanding ice‐sheet history, ... -
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 ... -
[Re]Valuing Surplus: Transitions, technologies and tensions in redistributing prepared food in San Francisco
(2018)Attention to value, exchange and circulation has long been a central feature of trade flow analyses. More recently, scholars have sought to extend these frames to examine the ongoing movements of end-of-life goods; essentially ... -
Transitioning without confrontation? Shared food growing niches and sustainable food transitions in Singapore
(2018)Following a series of global food crises and an increasing dependence on food imports, the Singaporean government has begun to support local food production as a means to improve the sustainability of its food regime. This ... -
The Role of Contemporary CO2 Sublimation as a Geomorphic Agent on Mars
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2019)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. ... -
Urban Food Sharing
(Policy Press, 2019)This book explores the history and current practice of food sharing. Illustrated by rich case studies from around the world, the book uses new empirical data to set an agenda for research and action. The book will ... -
Cultural landscape conservation in the Boyne Valley Archaeological Park, Counties Meath and Louth, Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2000)The establishment of the Boyne Valley Archaeological Park in 1987 and its subsequent designation as a World Heritage Property in 1993 were significant steps in landscape conservation in Ireland. For the first time, the ... -
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 ... -
Geographical information and privacy : an examination of the relationship between privacy, data protection and digitally-stored personal geographical information in Ireland in the 1990s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2000)Geographical Information (GI) has traditionally been an instrument of power used particularly by governments and other organisations with the large resources needed to utilise such an expensive resource. Recent developments ... -
An evaluation of GIS technology as a potential tool for coastal watershed management in Jamaica : case study: The Negril and Green Island watersheds
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2002)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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A mid to late Holocene environmental history of Munsa archaeological site, Uganda
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Geography, 2005)Multi-proxy palaeoenvironmental data in the form of microfossil pollen, fungal spores, phytoliths and charcoal have provided a means of reconstructing the mid to late Holocene environmental history of the Munsa archaeological ... -
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 ...
