Browsing Division of Humanities Departments by Date Published

The road code: encouraging more efficient driving practices in New Zealand

Scott, Michelle Grace; Lawson, Rob (Journal Article, Energy Efficiency, 2017)

Road transport contributes a significant amount towards New Zealand’s carbon emissions, mostly from light vehicles. These emissions could be partly reduced by an increase in more efficient driving practices, and reductions ...

University of Otago Open Access Publishing Survey Results (including Maori ethnicity results)

White, Richard; Remy, Melanie (Project Report, 2017)

Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure

McWilliam, Wendy; Fukuda, Yuki; Moller, Henrik; Smith, Des (Journal Article, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2017)

Pastoral landscape woody vegetation provides ecosystem services, but potentially competes for space, light and nutrients that could provide additional farm production. A questionnaire determined the values and behaviours ...

The Dunedin Energy Study 2015-2016

Dippie, Olive; Stephenson, Janet; Jack, Michael (Commissioned Report for External Body, 2017)

The Dunedin Energy Baseline Study is a joint research project between the Dunedin City Council (DCC) and the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. The study takes stock of and analyses energy inputs to the ...

Performance versus Values in Sustainability Transformation of Food Systems

Alroe, Hugo F; Sautier, Marion; Legun, Katharine A; Whitehead, Jay; Noe, Egon; Moller, Henrik; Manhire, Jon (Journal Article, Sustainability, 2017)

Questions have been raised on what role the knowledge provided by sustainability science actually plays in the transition to sustainability and what role it may play in the future. In this paper we investigate different ...

The spectre of standards in Aotearoa New Zealand early childhood education and care.

Gunn, Alexandra C.; Gasson, N. Ruth (Chapter in Book, Contemporary Issues and Challenges in Early Childhood Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, 2017)

In this chapter we argue that the New Zealand early childhood curriculum Te Whāriki, and its subsequent mandating in law negates any imposition of standards upon child learning outcomes of New Zealand early childhood ...

Interventions for a sustainable transport system for New Zealand: results from a Delphi study

Spector, Sam; Stephenson, Janet; Hopkins, Debbie (Commissioned Report for External Body, 2017)

Transport plays a central role in the economy and in the wellbeing of society. However, the use of vehicles also has undesirable consequences such as particulate emissions, road accidents and greenhouse gas emissions. ...

Are Organic Standards Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture? Lessons From New Zealand’s ARGOS and Sustainability Dashboard Projects

Merfield, Charles; Moller, Henrik; Manhire, Jon; Rosin, Chris; Norton, Solis; Carey, Peter; Hunt, Lesley; Reid, John; Fairweather, John; Benge, Jayson; Le Quellec, Isabelle; Campbell, Hugh; Lucock, David; Saunders, Caroline; MacLeod, Catriona; Barber, Andrew; McCarthy, Alaric (Chapter in Book, Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture. Historical Perspectives, 2017)

Building professionals and elevating the profession? The work of university-based teacher educators in Aotearoa New Zealand

Berg, David. A. G.; Gunn, Alexandra C.; Hill, M. F.; Haigh, M. (Chapter in Book, Teacher Education in Challenging Times: Lessons for professionalism, partnership and practice., 2017)

The Right to Food Guidelines, Democracy and Citizen Participation: Country Case Studies

Cresswell Riol, Katharine S. E. (Book, 2017)

It is now more than a decade since the Right to Food Guidelines was negotiated, agreed and adopted internationally by states. This book provides a review of its objectives and the extent of success of its implementation. ...

Nobility or utility? Zamindars, businessmen, and bhadralok as curators of the Indian nation in Satyajit Ray’s Jalsaghar (The Music Room)

Ghosh, Gautam (Journal Article, Modern Asian Studies, 2017)

The Bengali bhadralok have had an important impact on Indian nationalism in Bengal and in India more broadly. Their commitment to narratives of national progress has been noted. However, little attention has been given to ...

Reconceptualising Specialist Environment Courts and Tribunals

Warnock, Ceri (Journal Article, Legal Studies, 2017)

Specialist environment courts and tribunals (SECs) are, in the main, reflective of highly dynamic forms of adjudication, mixing judicial forms with powers more traditionally found in the executive. However, despite their ...

Verbatim and Maori Theatre Techniques: Documenting People's Experiences of Hauora

Kewene, Francis Waiata (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

The theatrical review group Maranga Mai, emerging out of the political unrest of the 1970s, used drama to challenge New Zealand’s ideology of one people and dispel the myth that Māori and Pākehā (a person of predominantly ...

The Economic Vote in New Zealand. An analysis of how macroeconomic conditions and perceptions of the economy affect voter behaviour

Gardener, Luke Thomas (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

A large body of research suggests the performance of the economy has a significant effect on voter behaviour. However, there has been limited analysis of this issue in relation to New Zealand. This thesis seeks to correct ...

Film Theory and the Body

Gilmore, Sophie Violet (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

This thesis explores the role of the body in film theory. While past film theory yielded a variety of productive insights into numerous aspects of cinema as an art form, the issue of the body was largely neglected by ...

Is Your Legacy To Yourself Or To Others And What Is Important For Morality? Modifying Kant's Categorical Imperative.

Beckett, Trees M (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

This thesis builds on a conditional claim that Kant’s prudential account of happiness has implications for his account of morality and a new taxonomy of prudence and morality is proposed. Other-regarding and self-regarding ...

Excavations on Motupore Island (Vol 1)

Allen, Jim (Working Paper, 2017)

Excavations on Motupore Island. (Vol 2)

Allen, Jim (Working Paper, 2017)

The languages of relevant logic: a model-theoretic perspective

Badia Hernandez, Guillermo (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

A traditional aspect of model theory has been the interplay between formal languages and mathematical structures (hence Chang and Keisler's famous equation "model theory = universal algebra + logic"). This dissertation is ...

Children of the Revolution: Bolan, Bowie and the Carnivalesque

Blair, Alison (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

David Bowie and Marc Bolan were two glam rock stars who, in the 1970s, presented audiences with carnivalesque ‘alternatives’ to everyday reality. As a time of crisis and transformation, the 1970s in Britain has been ...

Browsing Division of Humanities Departments by Date Published

Browsing Division of Humanities Departments by Date Published

Search

Usage Statistics

Theses

OUR Archive

Browse

OUR Archive

This Division/School