In nineteenth century New Zealand, the process of colonisation included destruction of the native environment and so conflicted with conservation. By about 1870 a few men were urging that the native flora and fauna were ...

Balancing the demands and values attributed to complex and integrated freshwater systems can often be contentious and challenging. Collaborative planning has gained international support as a potential solution for balancing ...

In this paper we discuss a tag-based model that facilitates knowledge sharing in the context of agents playing the knowledge sharing game. Sharing the knowledge incurs a cost for the sharing agent, and thus non-sharing is ...

Māori (the indigenous people of New Zealand) cultural values in relation to resource management within New Zealand, are often co-joined with a preservation framework. The practical implication of this, places identity as ...

The argument at the centre of this dissertation is that dominant discourses inform the practice of workplace drug testing. These discourses produce drug-testing knowledge in specific ways that impose restraints on the way ...

This study investigates the market response to the requirement that the principal executive and financial officer of an SEC registrant each state under oath that the firm’s annual and quarterly financial reports are ...

A few years ago I edited an autobiography written in 1936 by a working- class New Zealand woman, Mary Lee's The Not So Poor. Setting out on a project of "restoring a voice," allowing the as yet unpublished speech of a ...

As the participation of women in the workplace has grown, so too has the need to live through menopause in a more public way. Previously managed in private, many women now experience (often visible) menopausal changes at ...