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Reading New Zealand Within The New Global Order: Sport and the Visualisation of National Identity
Globalization has emerged as one of the most controversial and debated issues of our times. In particular the potential impact of global products and processes on political, economic and cultural life in all of the world’s ...
New Zealand GPS velocity field: 1995–2013
We collate nearly two decades of campaign GPS data gathered at over 900 sites throughout New Zealand to release a New Zealand nationwide GPS velocity field. The data span the entire North and South islands of New Zealand ...
Evaluating deep subsidence in a rapidly-accreting mangrove forest using GPS monitoring of surface-elevation benchmarks and sedimentary records
Ultimately, the fate of mangrove forests depends on substrate-elevation gains keeping pace with relative sea level rise (RSLR). Some of the world's largest mangrove forests occur on tectonically active margins, river deltas ...
Sea Level Rise in New Zealand:The Effect of Vertical Land Motion on Century‐Long Tide Gauge Records in a Tectonically Active Region
Historically tide gauge (TG) data have been used to estimate global sea level rise. Critical to the analysis of TG records is the assumption that the TG sites are stable and not affected by vertical land motion (VLM). We ...
Māori University success: what helps and hinders qualification completion
Māori (Indigenous New Zealand) university graduates are role models for educational success and are critical for the social and economic wellbeing of Māori whānau (extended family) and communities. In this study, Māori ...
Equity in New Zealand university graduate outcomes: Māori and Pacific graduates
Higher education confers significant private and social benefits. Māori and Pacific peoples are under-represented within New Zealand universities and have poorer labour market outcomes (e.g., lower wages, under-represented ...
Critical perspectives on the diversity of research into sexualities and health in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Thinking outside the boxes
In this article we provide a critical narrative review of the diverse contemporary research into sexualities and health in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We outline the specific colonial context of Aotearoa/New Zealand and the ...
Precession Issues in Polynesian Archaeoastronomy
Latitude and azimuth determination were crucial for Polynesian navigators,
supplemented by techniques such as observations of swells, birds and expanded
landfalls. Longitude could only be determined by dead reckoning. ...