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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 ... -
Identifying barriers for nature-based solutions in flood risk management: an interdisciplinary overview using the expert community approach
(2022)The major event that hit Europe in summer 2021 reminds society that floods are recurrent and among the costliest and deadliest natural hazards. The long-term flood risk management (FRM) efforts preferring sole technical ... -
Urban vacancy in Ireland: Addressing recent responses and opportunities
(Trinity College Dublin & Dublin City Council, 2023)This report outlines recent political and policy responses to urban vacancy in Ireland, the challenges that these policy objectives face, and lessons that can be drawn from the experience of those implemented them. It is ... -
The power of platforms—precarity and place
(2023)The expanding scale and scope of digital platforms in our lives seem undeniable as they restructure commerce, communication, work, finance, popular culture, and private and public services. However, despite their ubiquity ... -
What role for citizens? Evolving engagement in quadruple helix smart district initiatives
(2023)Globally, smart city initiatives are becoming increasingly ubiquitous elements of complex, sociotechnical urban systems. While there is general agreement that cities cannot be smart without citizen involvement, the ... -
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 ... -
From "debt diplomacy" to donorship? China's changing role in global development
(2022)Since the mid-1990s the Chinese state and the country’s businesses have significantly increased their activity throughout the Global South. In International Development, China’s impacts on this varied meta-region have ... -
Assessing the sustainability impacts of food sharing initiatives: User testing The Toolshed SIA
(2022)The food system is unsustainable and requires reconfiguration, however more data is required to assess the impacts of action which might contribute to a more sustainable food future. Responding to this, extensive research ... -
Restricted participation: Drivers, experiences and implications of disability stigma in Ethiopia
(2023)Background: Community-based inclusive development (CBID) acknowledges society’s critical role in supporting the active participation of persons with disabilities. However, research on how this approach relates to the ... -
Hard borders and soft agreements: Evaluating governance within the Global Compact for Migration
(Routledge, 2023)Welcomed as a milestone in the governance of transnational migration, the adoption of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration marked a significant step forward in international cooperation on migration ... -
Social media and housing activism in post-crisis Dublin: Geographies of digital/material contention
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)This thesis focuses on housing contention in Dublin since the global financial crisis. More specifically, it is an empirically grounded socio-technical investigation of the relation between contention and the digital?s ... -
Exploring Female Academics Underrepresentation in Senior Leadership Positions: case of Public and Private Universities in Tanzania
(2022)Tanzania recognizes that gender equality and female empowerment are important for sustainable development of the country. The revised frameworks for EFA in the 2030 education agenda and the SDG5 give a central position ... -
Sustainable bogs: Challenges in transition
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geography, 2022)In January 2021, Bord na Móna chief executive Tom Donnellan announced that the company had ended its peat production business. The closure of the industrial bogs has led to calls for a just transition for those affected. ... -
Innovative solutions to address the humanitarian-development nexus : Review of the pilot introduction of the Blended Approach at GOAL
(goalglobal.org, 2020)In 2018 GOAL received support from the Department Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Irish Aid, to pilot a new funding modality – the “blended approach” - intended to bridge the humanitarian-development divide through closer ...