Increasing demands for outdoor wilderness experiences are creating a number of pressures for pristine wilderness locations, and highlighting the need for the careful management of these natural resources. New Zealand’s ...

This study is about pregnant women, midwives, and information and communication technologies (ICT) during the provision of primary maternity services. It explored (n=35) midwives and (n=55) pregnant women’s perceptions and ...

The airport environment has been changing drastically in recent years, brought about by economic and technological reforms considered necessary by airports due to rising fuel prices and the global recession experienced in ...

Since, 2010, New Zealand, Japan and Haiti have suffered from large scale damages as the result of earthquakes. Along with the devastating immediate losses associated with such disasters, particularly the loss of lives, ...

Contact is an essential component in addressing prejudice, resolving conflict and improving intergroup attitudes and relations. War encourages prejudice, stereotyping and dehumanization between military combatants. In order ...

Many organisations invest heavily in backup and cyber insurance because they recognise that when they lose their information systems, their survival is at risk, with outages sometimes costing as much as millions per hour. ...

How are Western backpacking identities organised, constituted and performed? A scenario understood as ‘backpacker-becoming’ is described as a process in which individual backpackers are activated, that is, continually ...

This study is an ethical analysis, focusing on professional ethics. Given accountants’ involvement in the strategic-planning decisions of organisations, the study examines whether that involvement extends accountants’ ...

This thesis consists of three stand-alone but related empirical studies. Each of them explores how the presence or the arrival of immigrants to a country affects the non-labour market outcomes of residents in that country. ...

The consequences related to the loss of the worlds indigenous languages are not fully understood–the warnings as to the urgency of this issue largely unheeded, due in part to the enormity and challenges of regaining lost ...