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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Outer Hebrides"”.
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Middening in the Outer Hebrides : an ethnoarchaeological investigation.
… of recycling. The Uists and Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides were selected for fieldwork because local conditions favoured intensive recycling in the recent past, farmers with experience of such practices are still available for interview, and surviving farmers can identify functional areas on …
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What lies beneath: probing the cultural depths of a nature conservation conflict in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
On the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, the challenges and forces conditioning the community are natural and social. Buffeted by the Atlantic sea and perched at the periphery of the most westerly inhabited islands in Scotland, linguistically different to mainland Scotland, …
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Community Land Trusts: resilient in a crisis and a potential model for local development in the Outer Hebrides
… the resilience of Community Land Trusts in the Outer Hebrides and whether they can be seen as a model for sustainable local development.<br/>The evidence gathered for the study indicates that for some communities in the Outer Hebrides, a Community Land Trust has delivered significant community …
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Variations and trends in the sensitivity of machair soils and coastal landforms to erosion, South Uist, Outer Hebrides
… a severe storm caused extensive damage in the Outer Hebrides, drawing attention to the sensitivity of the machair coast to erosion. The aim of this research was to investigate variations and trends in the sensitivity of three field sites within the South Uist machair to soil and coastal …
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HRES and DHN application in remote island communities: the case study of the Eye Peninsula in the Outer Hebrides
… fossil fuel consumption on the islands of the Outer Hebrides.<br/>A literature review of the state of the art of HRES and DHN technologies is provided, together with a local analysis of the current communities’ energy status and building energy performance indexes. The research continues with …
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The possibility of an impact-related origin of quasi-conglomerate pseudotachylytes on Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, an integrated study
… in the Lewisian Gneiss on Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland. These exceptionally large pseudotachylytes have either been ascribed to the Outer Hebrides Fault Zone (OHFZ) or considered to be at a distance from the OHFZ. The Barra quasi-conglomerates visually resemble the Sudbury …
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For Want of Land: A Study of Land Settlement in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and Raasay between the two world wars
… detail, land settlement schemes in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and Raasay between the two world wars. Land settlement is a world-‐wide phenomenon, which in the context of this research involves the examination of the creation of new crofts and the enlargement of existing ones from the …
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The same but better: understanding ceramic variation in the Hebridean Neolithic
… proportions of certain rim forms. Across the Outer Hebrides, decorative elaboration and the presence of large numbers of distinctive vessel forms would appear to mark out certain assemblages seemingly associated with communal gathering and feasting events at key locales within which a …
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Supporting community-led digital moving image archives: Between grubby flesh and insubstantial pixel.
… and Faodail/FOUND Archive Project (North Uist, Outer Hebrides, Scotland) are valuable comparison sites. Given the importance of context and environment for community-led projects, additional interviews with third sector and arts and heritage organisations in the principal study site’s locality …
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Wave Energy Extraction and Coastal Protection
… analysis is presented for an area in the Inner Hebrides, east of the island of Colonsay. An overview of additional data campaigns in and around Orkney and the Outer Hebrides is also contained in this study, and this includes the use of X-band radar for wave and current characterisation, with …
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May Morris and the Making of Art, c. 1880 - 1938
… of spinning, dyeing and weaving by hand in the Outer Hebrides. Collectively, these chapters demonstrate that, for Morris, the making of art was multivalent and entangled in a syncretic mesh in which meanings were activated by and mobilised different conceptions of the ancient, modern, global and …
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The role of agents for change in the sustainable development of wave energy in the Highlands and Islands Region of Scotland
… sector.<br/>Two case studies, Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, and Orkney, were chosen based on their localities and the interest that they have garnered from wave energy developers due to their high energy marine environments. A grounded approach was taken to data collection and a social power …
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Assessing the risk to aquaculture from Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs)
… in the Shetland<br/>Islands, Orkney and Outer Hebrides, mainly related to high dependability on fish farming of<br/>the population in the Islands.<br/>These findings highlight the complex interaction of blooms with extrinsic variables,<br/>suggesting local conditions or stochastic …
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Predator movements in complex geography: Spatial distribution and temporal occurrence of low-density bottlenose dolphin communities off western Scotland
… (Tursiops truncatus) communities: the Inner Hebrides and the Sound of Barra (SoB) community. To allow assessments of anthropogenic impacts on these dolphins and development of efficient management to mitigate against these, an increased understanding of their general distribution patterns, …