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Cross‐cultural environmental research and management: Challenges and progress
The Royal Society of New Zealand encouraged this Forum on cross-cultural environmental research and management following the publication of a special issue of the New Zealand Journal of Zoology in September 2009 called ...
The Cultural Values Model: An integrated approach to values in landscapes
Cultural identity is strongly associated with the ways in which people interact with their landscapes. A few special landscapes may have ‘universal’ or ‘outstanding’ values, but almost all landscapes will be valued in ...
Biocultural conservation of marine ecosystems: Examples from New Zealand and Canada
Place-specific knowledge systems, combined with hands-on resource use and a long-term commitment to sustaining resources and ecosystems, are vitally important in restoring the planet to health. This approach is already an ...
Recreation on private property: landowner attitudes towards allemansrätt
Sweden's right of public access – allemansrätt – allows for access to almost all rural land, so long as care is taken not to damage crops or disturb farm animals, wildlife, or landowners’ privacy. Such access systems are ...
The Dimensional Landscape Model: Exploring Differences in Expressing and Locating Landscape Qualities
Landscape quality assessments provide information for developers, decision-makers and designers as to what is significant about a given landscape. However, assessment methods that rely on disciplinary expertise can fail ...
Public perceptions of wind energy developments: Case studies from New Zealand
Although the public generally hold positive attitudes towards wind energy, proposals for the construction of new wind farms are often met with strong resistance. In New Zealand, where the government has recently introduced ...
Blundering Intruders: Extraneous Impacts on Two Indigenous Food Systems
Indigenous communities commonly face a major impediment in their ongoing efforts to participate effectively in the stewardship and sustainable management of their traditional lands, waters and resources. Externally driven ...
People and Place
The planning field gives surprisingly little consideration to the non-tangible qualities of place. Given the key role of planning practices in mediating change, it would appear self-evident that a central thread of planning ...
The 'right to roam': Lessons for New Zealand from Sweden's allemansrätt
In early 2007, the New Zealand Government completed a review of rights of public access for outdoor recreation. Unlike recent access reforms in the United Kingdom, the New Zealand review recommended no increase in the ...
The suitability of a feed-in tariff for wind energy in New Zealand : a study based on stakeholders’ perspectives
New Zealand (NZ) aims to expand the deployment of wind energy as one means to achieve 90% of electricity generation from renewables by 2025 and in addition to reduce green house gas (GHG) emissions. Due to electricity ...