Geography & Sustainable Development Theses: Recent submissions
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Public preferences for wind, fracking and nuclear energy in England and Scotland : a choice experiment approach
(2022-11-29) - ThesisThis study assesses public preferences for alternative electricity generation technologies in England and Scotland, in the context of the global challenge of climate change and the current policy debate in the UK. Specifically, ... -
Exploring the effect of location and time on human mobility flow networks
(2022-11-29) - ThesisContemporary flow data are used to investigate a number of social science phenomena: examples include flows inferred from mobile phone data, migration flows, commuting flows, or taxi flows between pick‐up and set‐down ... -
Assessing the vulnerability of marine sedimentary organic carbon : the influence of anthropogenic disturbance
(2023-06-14) - ThesisAs anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations rise, there is an increasing need to re-evaluate our understanding of the complex interactions involved within the global carbon (C) cycle. C stored within marine sediments ... -
Borderwork in times of crisis? Control, care and the resource of emotion
(2023-06-14) - ThesisThis thesis explores an internal EU border in Northern Europe during a ‘crisis’ scenario. In the aftermath of the Syrian Civil War, during 2015 Sweden received 160,000 applications for asylum, the third highest total number ... -
Modelling geomagnetic bird navigation
(2023-06-14) - ThesisGeomagnetic navigation is a complex process which has been studied in experimental behaviour and observation studies. However, to date there have been relatively few modelling studies, and all have used geomagnetic data ...