Geography
Recent Deposits
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Network-oriented public transport planning in medium and small New Zealand cities
Transport planning has traditionally used a reactive “predict and provide” model in which the main role of public transport (PT) is to move rush-hour commuters to and from the CBDs of large, dense cities. Beyond this, PT ... -
Public Participation in Conservation: The Taranaki Mounga Project
This research is focused on critically reviewing and examining the nature of public participation in conservation through the lens of a landscape-scale conservation project; the Taranaki Mounga Project (TMP). TMP’s goal ... -
On Common Ground: How landlords & tenants shape thermal performance of private rental properties.
Much of New Zealand’s private rental housing is energy inefficient, and this is an unnecessary source of greenhouse gas emissions and often unhealthy for the occupants. There have been limited inroads to improve the thermal ... -
Clarifying the waters: A critical analysis of turbidity and its role in environmental monitoring in New Zealand
Turbidity is widely-used as a water quality indicator to infer the mass of suspended sediment (SS) transported through riverine systems, and is inexpensive, readily available, and can be easily deployed to record continuous ... -
Speed the plough : an historical geography of New Zealand farming before the introduction of refrigeration.
[…] The present pattern of farming in New Zealand evolved through many changes which were in themselves responses to the landscape found by the Europeans, based on the cultural background of the settlers, the changing ... -
Blue-sky Thinking: Flood Risk Management and Blue-Green Infrastructure in Brisbane and Singapore
Floods are caused by a wide range of meteorological and environmental factors and issues around infrastructure and land use, resulting in various environmental, social and economic ramifications for societies. Brisbane, ... -
State housing in Dunedin.
[…] This study has been undertaken with a view to furthering research on residents of State housing areas, with particular reference to their satisfaction with housing. The study is set in Dunedin. As such it is intended ... -
Policy and planning in urban and peri-urban agriculture: The cases of Uyo and Benin City, Southern Nigeria
In Africa, the practice of urban and peri-urban agriculture (UPA) can be traced back to ancient civilizations. However, in recent times, farming in the developing world more broadly, is promoted for its contribution to ... -
Envisioning relational reproductive justice in surrogacy: Recognising the invisible experiences of intended parents
India has become notorious as a multibillion-dollar surrogacy industry. This industry flourished when India allowed commercial surrogacy and attracted many international intended parents to engage with widely available ... -
'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 ...