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Environmental controls on the spatial and temporal distribution of testate amoebae in two British minerotrophic mires (2014)
Thesis
Geary, A. P. Environmental controls on the spatial and temporal distribution of testate amoebae in two British minerotrophic mires. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/816060

This is the first study in the British Isles detailing the spatial and temporal distribution and controls on testate amoebae within minerotrophic brown-moss dominated mires. The study covers a full annual cycle at two mires, Max Bog in North Somerset... Read More about Environmental controls on the spatial and temporal distribution of testate amoebae in two British minerotrophic mires.

A critical evaluation of local air quality management and its contribution to meeting the EU annual mean nitrogen dioxide limit value (2014)
Thesis
Barnes, J. A critical evaluation of local air quality management and its contribution to meeting the EU annual mean nitrogen dioxide limit value. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/816527

Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) was initially intended to play a supplementary role in assisting the UK government in achieving its European air quality obligations (Directive 2008/50/EC) through the implementation of action plans to reduce publi... Read More about A critical evaluation of local air quality management and its contribution to meeting the EU annual mean nitrogen dioxide limit value.

Understanding walking and cycling using a life course perspective (2013)
Thesis
Jones, H. Understanding walking and cycling using a life course perspective. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/924953

Understanding of how walking and cycling change over time has been restricted to looking at time series data that reveals aggregate change, and time-limited longitudinal studies of individual behaviour. This thesis presents a study of the change and... Read More about Understanding walking and cycling using a life course perspective.

The mid-to-late pleistocene palaeoenvironments of the Gordano Valley, North Somerset (2012)
Thesis
Bridle, A. The mid-to-late pleistocene palaeoenvironments of the Gordano Valley, North Somerset. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/941769

This study constitutes the first reconstruction of Pleistocene palaeoenvironmental change from the Gordano Valley, a low-lying valley marginal to the Severn Estuary in southwest England. The valley lies at the limit of Pleistocene glacial expansion a... Read More about The mid-to-late pleistocene palaeoenvironments of the Gordano Valley, North Somerset.

Bus Tales: Travel-time use, technologies, and journey experiences on the bus (2012)
Thesis
Clayton, W. Bus Tales: Travel-time use, technologies, and journey experiences on the bus. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/941979

Recently there has been a growing interest in the ways in which people use their time during travel, and what different types of value (economic or personal) such ‘travel-time activity’ provides. The activities of public transport passengers have bee... Read More about Bus Tales: Travel-time use, technologies, and journey experiences on the bus.

Understanding how household car ownership changes over time (2012)
Thesis
Clark, B. Understanding how household car ownership changes over time. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/949211

The PhD study presented in this thesis sets out to address the question: How and why does household car ownership change over time? This question is justified on the basis that the study of car ownership has traditionally been dominated by cross-sect... Read More about Understanding how household car ownership changes over time.

Re-presenting geopolitics: Ethnography, climate justice, and non-violent geographies (2012)
Thesis
Burton, K. Re-presenting geopolitics: Ethnography, climate justice, and non-violent geographies. (Thesis). University of Exeter. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/949193

This thesis starts from the premise that Geopolitics is performative, an iterative discourse “of visualising global space…reproduced in the governing principles of geographic thought and through the practices of statecraft” (Agnew 1998:11). During th... Read More about Re-presenting geopolitics: Ethnography, climate justice, and non-violent geographies.

Sandstone weathering, electrical resistivity tomography, and the deterioration of San rock art in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa (2011)
Thesis
Mol, L. Sandstone weathering, electrical resistivity tomography, and the deterioration of San rock art in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa. (Thesis). University of Oxford. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/959505

Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) is a novel technique which can be used to build up a 2D pseudo-section of resistivity distribution of a porous material. Here, it is used to visualise internal moisture regimes by measuring the resistivity dist... Read More about Sandstone weathering, electrical resistivity tomography, and the deterioration of San rock art in the Golden Gate Highlands National Park, South Africa.

Potential for carfree development in the UK (2009)
Thesis
Melia, S. Potential for carfree development in the UK. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/989644

Rising car ownership and use has been associated with: pollution, resource depletion, waste of land, social exclusion and health problems. Carfree development is a relatively recent response to these problems in urban areas. There are several examp... Read More about Potential for carfree development in the UK.

Kerala's experience with governance reforms: Mismatched rhetoric and suppressed norms (2009)
Thesis
Gopinath, D. Kerala's experience with governance reforms: Mismatched rhetoric and suppressed norms. (Thesis). University of Sheffield. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/995320

In contrast to other states across India, Kerala that is already at the centre of attention for its progressive approaches to achieving high levels of social development has been creating 'inclusive' forms of governance to involve communities and non... Read More about Kerala's experience with governance reforms: Mismatched rhetoric and suppressed norms.

The development of international law governing the non-navigational uses of international watercourses: a critical review (2009)
Thesis
Quinn, N. The development of international law governing the non-navigational uses of international watercourses: a critical review. (Dissertation). University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1005240

Although states have entered into agreements regarding shared waters over the last several hundred years, it is only recently that an international framework law has emerged. Progress in this endeavor has been slow. The 1966 Helsinki Rules constitute... Read More about The development of international law governing the non-navigational uses of international watercourses: a critical review.

Regional and urban scale modelling of particulate matter: Can PM10 be managed at a local level? (2001)
Thesis
Chatterton, T. Regional and urban scale modelling of particulate matter: Can PM10 be managed at a local level?. (Thesis). University of East Anglia. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1086319

In March 1997, the British government launched the United Kingdom National Air Quality Strategy. The Strategy sought to reduce levels of PM10 in the UK so that the objective of 50µg/m3 , measured as a daily maximum of running 24-hour means, was e... Read More about Regional and urban scale modelling of particulate matter: Can PM10 be managed at a local level?.

Water management in arid areas: Case study of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India (2000)
Thesis
Gopinath, D. Water management in arid areas: Case study of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. (Dissertation). School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, India. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1092319

The focus of this study is to understand what importance is given to the aspect of managing water in arid areas (where the average annual rainfall is less than 375mm – Indian Meteorological Department). The city of Jodhpur in western Rajasthan, India... Read More about Water management in arid areas: Case study of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

Everyday mobilities, place and spirituality: Constructing subjective spiritual geographies in contemporary Bristol, UK
Thesis
Wigley, E. (2016). Everyday mobilities, place and spirituality: Constructing subjective spiritual geographies in contemporary Bristol, UK. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/907843

The New Mobilities Paradigm (Urry, 2007) and contemporary geographies understand places as sites of movement and flow that are dynamically related to other spaces (Massey, 1994). However religious places are traditionally treated as static or fixed e... Read More about Everyday mobilities, place and spirituality: Constructing subjective spiritual geographies in contemporary Bristol, UK.