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Understanding the energy consumption choices and coping mechanisms of fuel poor households in New Zealand
One in four households in New Zealand are fuel poor. A growing body of evidence links the technical and economic aspects of this phenomenon, however comparatively little research has focused on the wider social impacts. ...
Interpreting children's best interests: needs, attachment and decision-making
Summary Many decisions in the child welfare arena revolve around the concept of ‘children’s best interests’, but determining what they actually consist of is contestable and subject to conflicting criteria. This article ...
Scripted Spaces: The Geopoetics of the Newspaper from Tret'iakov to Prigov
This essay examines Sergei Tret’iakov’s and Dmitrii Prigov’s turn to the newspaper in their search for a symbolic form adequate to the geopolitical fl ux at the beginning and endpoints of Soviet history. Fusing the epic ...
Enhancement, disability and the riddle of the relevant circumstances
The welfarist account of enhancement and disability holds enhanced and disabled states on a spectrum: the former are biological or psychological states that increase the chances of a person leading a good life in the ...
Improving publication: advice for busy higher education academics
A major challenge for higher education academics is to research and publish when faced with substantial teaching responsibilities, higher student numbers, and higher output expectations. The focus of this piece is to ...
Change trends in urban freight delivery: a qualitative inquiry
In this paper we present the findings of a qualitative investigation of change trends in urban freight deliveries. The empirical material was gathered with urban freight (courier) company managers and drivers in Aotearoa ...
Exploring stability and change in transport systems: combining Delphi and system dynamics approaches
Transport is a vast and complex socio-technical system, and despite a clear
need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels due to undesirable environmental impacts, it is
largely locked into business-as-usual. Systems approaches ...
Informed outrage: tackling shame and stigma in poverty education in social work
The experience of poverty as shameful is felt by some people living in poverty due to the internalisation of stigmatising neo-liberal discourses which construe poverty as the consequence of individual failings of effort, ...
Evaluating the impact of energy interventions: home audits vs. community events
New Zealand’s housing stock tends to be of low thermal quality that can adversely affect the health and well-being of occupants as well as costing more than necessary to heat. Householders need information and motivation ...
Evaluating the impact of energy interventions: home audits vs. community events
New Zealand’s housing stock tends to be of low thermal quality that can adversely affect the health and well-being of occupants as well as costing more than necessary to heat. Householders need information and motivation ...