Geography & Sustainable Development Theses: Recent submissions
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Assessing the relationship between poverty and biodiversity, within the context of land use change in the Solomon Islands
(University of St Andrews, 2014-05) - ThesisThere is convergence at the international level that conserving biodiversity can contribute to poverty alleviation, but empirical evidence for this relationship is scarce. In this thesis I assess the relationship between ... -
Discourses of energy justice : the case of nuclear energy
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-21) - ThesisThe energy sector faces sustainability challenges that are re-working the established patterns of energy supply, distribution and consumption (Anderson et al. 2008; Haas et al. 2008; Stern 2008; Shove and Walker 2010). ... -
Home-ing in on domestic energy research : home comfort and energy demand
(University of St Andrews, 2017-06-21) - ThesisClimate change has become a major concern for research and policy in recent decades, and housing has been an important area to tackle as globally this sector accounts for roughly a quarter of energy demand, and its resulting ... -
Education for sustainability through action research: an exploration through theory, policy and practice in Scottish secondary schools
(University of St Andrews, 2015-12-18) - ThesisEnvironmental deterioration and social injustice highlight the discrepancy between ‘educated’ and ‘wise’ and, by corollary, call into question our approach to education. In order to investigate how we might advance Education ... -
The parallel tracks of Partition, India-Pakistan 1947 : histories, geographies, cartographies
(University of St Andrews, 2016-06-22) - ThesisOn 15 August 1947, the British government withdrew from India and partitioned the subcontinent to create two new nation-states: India and Pakistan. The Partition of India and Pakistan has been studied chiefly as a historical ...