Geography
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'Water we do about the river?' An Integrated Approach to Understanding Water Quality in the Waikaka Stream, Southland, New Zealand
Water quality causes are a highly contested issue in New Zealand, with rivers and streams struggling with the effects of intensive pastoral agriculture. The Waikaka Stream in Southland is an example of a catchment that ... -
Solutions for Improving Water Quality on High-Country Farms in New Zealand
Contaminants from agricultural land use have degraded freshwater quality in New Zealand. Several mitigation strategies for agricultural pollutants are effective in New Zealand, however, in the high-country, these strategies ... -
Climatology of Vapour Transport associated with New Zealand Droughts
Drought is a natural hazard which has a wide range of impacts across multiple sectors. While a universal or exact definition of drought is problematic, it is relatively straightforward to classify drought according to the ... -
Storm Surge and Beach Response in Southern New Zealand with Climate Change Considerations
There is $22 billion (NZD) of coastal infrastructure in New Zealand, situated within 1.5 m elevation of spring high tide. In southern New Zealand alone, there are 4,000 homes, 13,000 people and 174 km of roading infrastructure ... -
Water Quality of Stormwater Runoff into Lake Wānaka, New Zealand
The potential contaminant load from stormwater runoff into Lake Wānaka is an emerging problem for the management of urban waters in the Queenstown Lakes District of New Zealand. This research combined a field-research ... -
A multi-scale approach to assessing the spatio-temporal variability of seasonal snow in the Clutha Catchment, New Zealand
Seasonal snow is an important, but under-observed component of New Zealand's hydrological cycle. Measurement and characterisation of seasonal snow is complicated because it varies over a range of spatial and temporal scales. ... -
Past and current drivers of species climatic niches and geographic distributions
The distribution of species determines global patterns of biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Current species distributions are the result of the complex interplay of evolutionary, environmental, ecological and anthropogenic ... -
A Climatology of New Zealand Atmospheric Rivers
The occurrence of extreme precipitation events in New Zealand regularly results in devastating impacts to the local society and environment. In order to examine the occurrence of extreme precipitation in New Zealand, extreme ... -
Planning for Sea Level Rise Adaptation in Coastal Dunedin
Sea level rise (SLR) is leading to many social, environmental and financial implications for low-lying coastal communities across the globe. For Aotearoa New Zealand, the impending threat of SLR and the long-term challenges ... -
Managing the Impacts of Airbnb: A Case Study of Queenstown, New Zealand
Airbnb is a new phenomenon that has transformed accommodation in the tourism industry and expanded across the globe. The operation of Airbnb involves individuals renting out rooms in their homes or renting entire homes on ... -
Impact assessment effectiveness in Otago Regional and District Councils
The Resource Management Act (RMA, 1991) has been in place for over 28 years. Section 88 of the RMA (1991) requires ‘impact assessment’, under the name ‘Assessment of Environmental Effects’ (AEE) in accordance with Schedule ... -
Housing Accords and Special Housing Areas Act 2013: Incentives and Outcomes for Housing Development in the Nelson Urban Area
The Fifth National Government introduced the Housing Accord and Special Housing Areas Act 2013(HASHA) as a policy to increase housing affordability within certain region or districts identified as having housing supply and ... -
Post-Disaster Recovery Efforts in Japan and New Zealand: What Worked Well? What Hasn't?
Natural disasters present significant threats to the infrastructure, economy, and most importantly, people. Land-use planning is fundamental to post-disaster management and the effects are often reflected in the efficiency ... -
Sustainable Urban Regeneration in Christchurch Central City
Urban environments have significant implications on the natural environment. They contribute to the adverse effects of stormwater pollutants in oceans and rivers, they produce carbon emissions and excessive waste and they ... -
Towards Greater Diversity in Biodiversity Conservation Action
Young adults have been identified as an under-researched group in terms of their engagement in environmental management initiatives, but an important group to understand given their future role as environmental leaders. ... -
The Therapeutic Potential of New Zealand's Coast: The role of personal experiences and education in shifting individual perceptions of therapeutic landscapes
Over the past decade the therapeutic landscape framework has seen a number of critiques regarding its catch all approach to healing environments and the lack of discussion surrounding landscapes of harm. Geographers have ... -
Mobilising Land for Affordable Housing: Policy Options for Private Development in Dunedin City
The growing demand in New Zealand for suitable affordable housing options is at present a regular feature of media articles and state-of-the-nation reports. It is routinely claimed that the national housing market is in ... -
Climate Niches of New Zealand’s Extinct and Extant Plant Genera
Throughout Earth’s history changes in environmental conditions have caused plant species to either adapt or become extinct, however, the drivers of past plant extinctions are poorly understood. This project investigates ... -
Changing landscapes: Compositional and phenological shifts in New Zealand's natural grassland
Vegetation in a wide range of ecosystems across the globe is responding to recent anthropogenic climate change. There are two key ecological responses in plants associated with recent anthropogenic climate change: shifts ... -
Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Sustainable Development Goals: Lessons from Tonga
Tonga faces distinctive environmental, economic and social challenges emanating from increasing development pressures. In recognition of the sustainable development challenges faced by many nations around the world, the ...