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Cooking with Gas: Māori and the coming energy transition
This paper presents an Indigenous and Māori perspective about the need for urgent energy transitions by examining three areas: • Climate change transition, which I define as an energy transition to a largely non-fossil-fuel ... -
The Right to Be Forgotten
This paper outlines the concept of the ‘right to be forgotten’ and critically analyses its implications for New Zealand. The author discusses the origin of the concept in the Court of Justice of the European Union ruling ... -
Social Obligation and Environmental Management
This paper will explore the benefits of using the social obligation norm account of private property in the environmental law context. Using a selection of tradeable environmental allowance regimes from New Zealand and ... -
Of Irregular Votes and Robocalls: Resolving Disputed Elections in Canada and New Zealand
This paper begins with the broader question of how a constitutional order based upon a liberal-democratic commitment to letting the people choose their lawmakers ought to respond to allegations of flaws in its election ... -
Judicial Interpretation of Torrens Registered Documents
The appropriate approach to the interpretation of Torrens registered documents has been a heated issue in New Zealand. The problem arises because many interests in land (such as easements, covenants and leases) start life ... -
Parliament, the Courts and the NZBORA: The Cases of Aid in Dying and Prisoner Voting
The New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 (NZBORA) retains Parliament’s sovereign power to make law. However, beyond that important point, much of the debate around the NZBORA’s meaning for the legislature and judiciary’s ... -
Gait stability during shod and barefoot walking and running on a treadmill assessed by correlation entropy
This study tests correlation entropy, 𝐾2, as a measure of stability for gait analysis. An average of 13 strides from 10 participants in each combination of one footwear (barefoot vs shod) condition and one gait mode ... -
Legal and Jurisprudential Aspects of Mandatory 'Environmental Literacy' Programmes in Tertiary Education
There is a significant and growing body of literature that considers how Universities might act as a catalyst in fostering sustainability from the perspectives of management and administration, promoting research into ... -
Focus on Housing: The New Affordable Housing Legislation
This paper begins with a warning! The Government has recently signaled its intention to review the Affordable Housing: Enabling Territorial Authorities Act 2008. Given National’s opposition to the legislation when it was ... -
Re-examining conservation precepts; implications for conservation education
In recognising a changing social future, this paper posits that the future relevance and sustainability of conservation is dependent on a re-evaluation of our professional pre-cepts, ethics, and working practices to more ... -
Micro-computed tomography for plant identification in artefacts
In New Zealand the identification of materials of construction of Māori textiles has important cultural and legal connotations. However the identification of aged and processed plant material in artefacts is difficult, ... -
Re-examining conservation precepts - implications for conservation eductation
The cross-cultural and interdisciplinary nature of cultural materials conservation has been a prominent feature of the field’s discourse in recent decades. However, in considering the cross-cultural aspects of conservation ... -
Methods for identifying plant materials in Māori and Pacific textiles
Investigating the range of plant species used in Māori and Pacific textiles can help to understand the diversity and relationships among whatu and raranga techniques and art forms. Although the style and construction of ... -
Relating colour, chemical and physical characteristics of artificially light-aged New Zealand plant fibres
Light ageing of naturally-dyed plant fibres can cause colour change, alteration of molecular bonds within the fibre structure and loss of mechanical integrity. Lighting guidelines seek to protect artefacts by limiting light ... -
Advances in conservation of Māori textiles; analysis and identification
A number of new methods and technologies for investigating Māori textiles have emerged from ten years of research in the Department of Applied Sciences - Clothing and Textile Sciences, University of Otago, Dunedin, New ... -
Characterising relational view updates using relative information capacity
In 2013, Chris Date published a book about the view update problem in the context of the Relational Model. He presented several detailed examples of different varieties of view updates and characterised their behaviour, ... -
Understanding driver behaviour: opportunities for greater efficiency
Road transport contributes a significant amount towards New Zealand’s carbon emissions, mostly from light vehicles. These carbon emissions could be partly reduced by an increase in more efficient driving practices. It has ... -
The Usability Perception Scale (UPscale): A Measure for Evaluating Feedback Displays
This paper proposes and tests the Usability Perception Scale (UPscale), developed to evaluate the perceived usability of eco-feedback. This tool builds on previous system usability scales and includes sub-scales for ease ...