Geography
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Māori Women Promoting Food Sovereignty in Aotearoa (New Zealand)
Poverty and food insecurity are issues being felt in Māori communities. Food insecurity includes the malnutrition of essential nutrients due to the inadequate intake of fruits and vegetables, exacerbated by the widespread ... -
Chemical Composition of Alpine Rivers in the Southern Alps, New Zealand
The Southern Alps of New Zealand are an exemplary case environment for studying the nature and relative proportion of chemical and physical denudation because of relatively high precipitation rates coupled with rapid uplift ... -
Glacier surface albedo from MODIS data and links to annual mass balance for the Gardens of Eden and Allah, New Zealand
The Gardens of Eden and Allah (GoEA) are two of New Zealand’s largest icefields. However, their remote location and protected conservation status has resulted in a lack of in situ observations and measurements. As a result, ... -
Are cultural impact assessments a tool for collaborative management?
This thesis investigates the participation of Maori (New Zealand's indigenous people) in the impact assessment process. Traditionally, Maori have had limited involvement in the management of New Zealand's environment. One ... -
Nursing a colonial hangover : towards bicultural planning in New Zealand
Planning, specifically resource management, is an activity of the state which should seek to reflect the values of the people. However, in New Zealand, only the values of the dominant Pakeha culture have traditionally been ... -
Local government response to increased flood hazards
The flood hazard in established urban areas is increasing. This is due to the effects of anthropogenic modification of catchments and rivers, and an increase in climatic extremes caused by global climate change, which ... -
Rū Te Whakaturu Whenua: Understanding Hapū Relationships Through Cultural Mapping
The paramount objective of this research is to critically analyse a model of knowledge revitalization, reproduction, re-dissemination and re-storage that underpins the traditional Māori essence of building hapū capacity ... -
A comparative study of land use planning under the Resource Management Act 1991 and the Town and Country Planning Act 1977
This study examines the hypothesis that the change in land use planning ideology embodied in the Resource Management Act has had a significant effect on the practice of land use planning in New Zealand. The Resource ... -
Strategic environmental assessment and the effective practice of EIA in Pacific Island countries
Environmental impact assessment (EIA) has been used as a decision aiding tool in Pacific Island countries (PICs) for the better part of 25 years to identify the potential implications of developments. However, its ... -
Challenges to the Implementation of ICT in Primary Education in East New Britain, Papua New Guinea
Education is a basic need but the quality of the delivery of education is not equally distributed amongst all its intended recipients. As countries embrace the Sustainable Development Goals, the movement towards achieving ... -
The agricultural geography of South Canterbury
The term ‘agriculture’ has been used by Whittlesey to apply to both plant and animal husbandry. Although the members of the agricultural community of South Canterbury recognise ‘agriculture’ as meaning only arable farming, ... -
Understanding the Water Resources of the Cardrona River, Central Otago
The Cardrona River runs in a north-east direction from the Crown Range to the Clutha River Mata-Au at Albert Town, near Wanaka, in Central Otago. There are water resource concerns in the catchment regarding a lower reach ... -
Two blades for one : rural land subdivision on the plains of the Ashburton County, 1880-1930
Nineteenth century agriculture in New Zealand was characterised by the rapidity with which large areas of land surfaces were subjected to extensive and permanent change. Since settlement by the European often occurred on ... -
The Landscapes of Today and Tomorrow - A phenomenological exploration of experience and anticipation in the context of climate change
The physical ramifications of climate change on coastal settlements will challenge people’s relationships with the places that are important to them. Climate impacts are commonly described in terms of tangible changes ... -
Indigenous Representation in New Patterns of Urban Development: A Ngāi Tahu Case Study
Urban environments in New Zealand have commonly reflected grievances and injustices faced by Māori, especially due to a loss of kaitiakitanga (stewardship) of their land. Consequently, Māori throughout New Zealand have ... -
Freshwater Management: State of water quality and options for management in the Waipahi Catchment
The main pressures on water quality are as a consequence of land-based activities. Agriculture is the world’s greatest contributor of non-point source pollution, which needs to be managed. The current international approach ... -
Flood Management in New Zealand: Exploring Management and Practice in Otago and the Manawatu
This research assesses how effective present flood management is in New Zealand, and what it may come to look like in the future. The importance of effective flood management is amplified by both human development in ... -
Vertical Changes in Soil Moisture in a Tussock Grassland Soil
Long term, continuous field based studies on soil moisture in New Zealand are scarce, with those addressing the fine scale and providing continuous measurement even more so. The tussock grasslands of Otago have been the ... -
Working towards a Public Bus Policy to Increase Public Transport to School and Physical Activity Rates among Adolescents in Dunedin
In developed countries, adolescents’ obesity rates are increasing while physical activity is decreasing. Transport to school can be a significant contributor to daily physical activity among adolescents. However, many ... -
The response of moth communities to ecosystem restoration
Ecosystems and biodiversity worldwide have been heavily degraded as a result of anthropogenic activity and the need for the restoration of these degraded ecosystems is increasingly realised. Understanding how species respond ...