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Evaluating the effectiveness of air quality management plans as a governance instrument in South Africa (2024)
Thesis
Mukwevho, P. Evaluating the effectiveness of air quality management plans as a governance instrument in South Africa. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/1018706

Since the 19th century, industrialised societies introduced technologies to enhance economic production and productivity, most notably related to energy generation. These caused ever-increasing levels of air pollution. The ambient air quality has sub... Read More about Evaluating the effectiveness of air quality management plans as a governance instrument in South Africa.

UAVS as a platform for earthwork heritage: monitoring, documentation and visualisation (2023)
Thesis
Malbon, H. (2023). UAVS as a platform for earthwork heritage: monitoring, documentation and visualisation. (Thesis). Keele University

Conservation of Cultural Heritage has been a mainstay of UNESCO and other such organisations for decades, whether it is artefacts, buildings, or earthworks. With the increase of tourism, urban encroachment, climate change, or naturally occurring proc... Read More about UAVS as a platform for earthwork heritage: monitoring, documentation and visualisation.

Characterising the nature and extent of contamination at a restored coal mining area in Staffordshire and assessment of remediation options (2020)
Thesis
Arab, K. A. H. (2020). Characterising the nature and extent of contamination at a restored coal mining area in Staffordshire and assessment of remediation options. (Thesis). Keele University

Mine site management, monitoring and restoration are important, long term environmental activities that are needed in many regions of the UK and around the world. This project characterised the nature and level of contamination at a former coal minin... Read More about Characterising the nature and extent of contamination at a restored coal mining area in Staffordshire and assessment of remediation options.

Energy potential of the Ecca Group from the southern Main Karoo Basin, South Africa (2018)
Thesis
Campbell, S. A. (2018). Energy potential of the Ecca Group from the southern Main Karoo Basin, South Africa. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/412302

Energy shortages and sporadic, controlled blackouts have been a defining feature of South Africa’s aging national energy grid for more than a decade. To investigate local energy sources from shale gas, two boreholes were drilled in the southern Main... Read More about Energy potential of the Ecca Group from the southern Main Karoo Basin, South Africa.

Blanket mires and climatic change: a palaeoecological study based on peat humification and microfossil analyses (1990)
Thesis
Blackford, J. (1990). Blanket mires and climatic change: a palaeoecological study based on peat humification and microfossil analyses. (Thesis). Keele University. Retrieved from https://keele-repository.worktribe.com/output/830854

The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the role of blanket peats as a source of proxy data by examining various properties of the peat and comparing the results with climatic changes known or inferred from other sources. Blanket mires from the North Y... Read More about Blanket mires and climatic change: a palaeoecological study based on peat humification and microfossil analyses.

The extent of traditionalism in two English rural areas (a sociological study of attitudes to social status and to educational, occupational and geographical mobility in North Shropshire and in West Dorset)
Thesis
(1968). The extent of traditionalism in two English rural areas (a sociological study of attitudes to social status and to educational, occupational and geographical mobility in North Shropshire and in West Dorset)

Much present controversy among rural and urban sociologists centres upon whether The Rural-Urban Continuum Approach is a useful and valid framework for empirical research. Many adherents of this approach postulate two polar types, 'urban'and 'rural',... Read More about The extent of traditionalism in two English rural areas (a sociological study of attitudes to social status and to educational, occupational and geographical mobility in North Shropshire and in West Dorset).

Migrant absorption in formal sector employment: the case of the Dhaka region jute industry
Thesis
Banu, S. (1986). Migrant absorption in formal sector employment: the case of the Dhaka region jute industry

This research concerns migrant workers in the jute manufacturing industry of Bangladesh. The absorption of labour into industry from the surplus rural population is a major feature of the social and economic transformation of developing countries. Al... Read More about Migrant absorption in formal sector employment: the case of the Dhaka region jute industry.

A palaeoecological study of Cors Gyfelog and Tre'r Gof: lowland mines of north west Wales
Thesis
Botterill, E. M. (1988). A palaeoecological study of Cors Gyfelog and Tre'r Gof: lowland mines of north west Wales

This study investigates post-Glacial development of Cors Gyfelog and Tre'r Gof - lowland mires in north west Wales - and the vegetational history of the region over the same period. Using existing hydroseral theories, possible future successions are... Read More about A palaeoecological study of Cors Gyfelog and Tre'r Gof: lowland mines of north west Wales.

Sustainable rural energy access in rural communities of South Asia: An analysis of the literature on the challenges and failures
Thesis
(2017). Sustainable rural energy access in rural communities of South Asia: An analysis of the literature on the challenges and failures

Despite the importance of access to reliable energy sources for development, large numbers of rural communities in South Asia (Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal) have no access to electricity grids or reliable, clean cooking energies.... Read More about Sustainable rural energy access in rural communities of South Asia: An analysis of the literature on the challenges and failures.

Terrain classification and selected soil properties of part of al. Zubair desert, southern Iraq
Thesis
(1980). Terrain classification and selected soil properties of part of al. Zubair desert, southern Iraq

Background information, including aerial photographs, and field sampling are used to produce a terrain classification for part of al. Zubair desert, southern Iraq. Published methodologies are found to be not entirely suitable and modifications of the... Read More about Terrain classification and selected soil properties of part of al. Zubair desert, southern Iraq.

Accelerated erosion of arable soils with special reference to the West Midlands
Thesis
(1979). Accelerated erosion of arable soils with special reference to the West Midlands

Whilst acknowledging the growing concern about the environmental impact of modern farming on the soil system, there has been little discussion about the natural extension of these problems where cropping takes place on sloping terrain - soil erosion.... Read More about Accelerated erosion of arable soils with special reference to the West Midlands.

Developments in the South Staffordshire iron and steel industry, 1850-1913, in the light of home and foreign competition
Thesis
Le Guillou, M. (1972). Developments in the South Staffordshire iron and steel industry, 1850-1913, in the light of home and foreign competition

When Ebenezer Parkes was discussing the question of foreign competition as it affected the local iron and steel industry at the turn of the century, he stressed that it was a 'many sided thing'. Besides, if South Staffordshire was to reassert itself,... Read More about Developments in the South Staffordshire iron and steel industry, 1850-1913, in the light of home and foreign competition.

Service centres and rural-urban interaction in the North West Midlands: an appraisal of measures of centrality within the lower orders of a central place system
Thesis
Kivell, P. T. (1971). Service centres and rural-urban interaction in the North West Midlands: an appraisal of measures of centrality within the lower orders of a central place system

Service centres and rural-urban interaction in the north-west Midlands; an appraisal of measures of centrality within the lower orders of a central place system.

This thesis is concerned with a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the fun... Read More about Service centres and rural-urban interaction in the North West Midlands: an appraisal of measures of centrality within the lower orders of a central place system.

Tourism and rural development: the mountain districts of Andalusia, Spain
Thesis
Weatherley, R. D. (1981). Tourism and rural development: the mountain districts of Andalusia, Spain

Studies of tourism in southern European countries have centred on the spectacular rise of international coastal tourism. Rural tourism has taken the form of a mass summer migration both of returning emigrants and of city dwellers, the latter favourin... Read More about Tourism and rural development: the mountain districts of Andalusia, Spain.