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Item Investigation of the water use ratio and the importance of Christchurch aquifers to the food and beverage industry(Lincoln University. LEaP, 2017-10) Alcee, MandilleUnderstanding the socio-economic value of freshwater in Christchurch has emerged as long-term development plans for the city ensues with attempts being made to better understand this natural resource and the value it adds to business operations. However, understanding the socio-economic value of this resource can be quite complex due to the issues surrounding freshwater use and management in Christchurch. Nonetheless, this research investigates the water use ratios and importance of the Christchurch freshwater supply to the food and beverage industry. Telephone interviews with the use of a questionnaire were conducted with 80 companies, purposely selected from within the food and beverage sector. The results from the data collected indicate that water is very important to food and beverage business operations and that the quality of freshwater is one of the key reasons for these businesses choosing to establish and operate in Christchurch. Moreover, the research also finds that the analysis conducted was limited to some degree as most companies failed to provide the necessary data to investigate the water use ratios for the food and beverage industry.Item Canterbury youth and outdoor recreation: An investigation of youth group leaders' perspectives on recreation opportunities on Banks Peninsula(Lincoln University, 2015-05) Hughes Hutton, J; Espiner, Stephen; Stewart, EmmaIn the summer of 2014-2015, Lincoln University, in conjunction with the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust and Department of Conservation, undertook research to explore the use of the Banks Peninsula walkways among youth organisations. The aim of this investigation was to understand the demand for local outdoor recreation opportunities among youth groups in Christchurch, as well as to gauge the implications for the Banks Peninsula “Spine of the Lizard” project. The research developed a database of youth organisations in the Christchurch area that participate in outdoor recreation (n=150); an on-line survey of youth organisation leaders in Christchurch to discover what outdoor recreation activities they participate in and which locations they use, as well as their perceptions of Banks Peninsula as an outdoor setting for young people (n=72); and semi-structured interviews with youth leaders involved in the decision making process to understand what is required for young people to explore the outdoors (n=13). Key findings include: Youth group organisations are frequent users of a wide range of Canterbury outdoor recreation areas – use that appears to be governed primarily by ‘tradition’; most youth organisations report high levels of recreation participation, engaging in some form of outdoor activity (but not necessarily beyond their immediate neighbourhoods) at least 2-3 times every month; relative to some other locations, Banks Peninsula is not currently a high-frequency outdoor recreation destination for youth groups. Although one in six groups surveyed never used Banks Peninsula, just under 70 per cent had visited at least once in the last twelve months. The most common visit frequency reported was once every 6-12 months (26%); the majority of respondents (61%) reported that they would like to use Banks Peninsula more often for their groups’ activities. Common reasons for not doing so included ‘traditionally using other sites’ and ‘lack of information’; respondents were relatively evenly divided on their likelihood of using a two night tramp (utilising huts or tents) on Banks Peninsula starting within one hour of Christchurch City, with 47 per cent of respondents saying that they would be ‘unlikely’ to use it, and 42 per cent saying they would use it. Key recommendations included: develop marketing tools to improve communication; Install interpretation at key sites and facilities; create a hut booking system for youth organisations; increase capacities of facilities to cater for larger youth groups; explore possibilities for a shuttle transport system and continue to develop and maintain mountain bike tracks.Item The well-evolved life: Well-being, evolution and personhood: An annotated bibliography(Lincoln University. LEaP, 2013-05) Moore, Kevin; Minchington, Lynette J.Advances in most areas of specialization within the broad discipline of psychology occur incrementally – sometimes in larger increments, sometimes in smaller increments. One often-noted disadvantage of such specialized research progress is that connections between different areas can be overlooked or neglected. Three areas within psychology that have been making rapid theoretical and empirical progress over the past few decades have been: (i) understandings of well-being; (ii) evolutionary and related biological approaches to human psychology; and, (iii) theories of the development of personhood (or the ‘self’). The aim of this annotated bibliography is to provide a ‘first cut’ at characterising this multiple interface. It cannot hope to be comprehensive and apologies are made in advance to any authors of work that might be omitted from this collection. In particular, the bibliography, with a few exceptions, is restricted to journal articles accessed via the targeted databases. The omission of many books and book chapters is a definite limitation of the bibliography. The assumption, however, was that most books in the area are based upon published articles. Also, in most cases, book or book chapter authors are themselves article authors. Should someone wish to pursue the work of particular authors featured in this bibliography they will be able to locate books, book chapters and other omitted reference material by those authors. The aim of this bibliography is to assist with rather than substitute for comprehensive literature searches. Many bibliographies are designed to provide useful source material for particular areas of research specialization or the development of particular theoretical frameworks (e.g., see Axelrod and D’Ambrosio’s (1994) “Annotated Bibliography on the Evolution of Cooperation” for an example of the latter). This bibliography differs from many others in that, as just noted, it seeks to target a set of interfaces between three distinct bodies of literature: Human well-being; Evolutionary (and related biological) perspectives on human behaviour; Personhood (including the ‘self’). Each of these bodies of literature is extensive in its own right. Importantly, this bibliography does not aim to include all the literature in each area. Instead, its focus is on the overlap between these areas. As will be explained in the ‘Methods’ section, this has involved a necessarily subjective, but principled, process of selection of those published works (captured in the search process) that provide clear insight into the connections between two or more of these areas of research. Within those bounds, the selection process has been deliberately ‘permissive’. While major, well-cited works are included so too are some quite focused and specific studies. The selection criterion in this respect is a work’s ‘fit’ with the purpose of the bibliography, rather than its renown.Item Existing and potential use of Orton Bradley Park, Charteris Bay, New Zealand(Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand, 2014-05) Moore, Stephen; Espiner, Stephen R.Orton Bradley Park (OBP) is a private farm park located 25 kilometres south east of Christchurch in the Lyttelton Harbour basin. The Park is marketed as offering peaceful picnic, BBQ and camping areas, heritage buildings and agricultural relics, as well as extensive walking tracks through regenerating native forest, commercial forest and farmland. Over its forty years of operation, little visitor profile data has been collected, so documented evidence of the Park’s use and users is limited. Despite this lack of information on visitation, recent development proposals have been suggested for the Park, which include family-friendly mountain bike tracks, a café, plant nursery, dog exercise area, historic tours and year-round basic camping facilities. To help evaluate the appropriateness of the proposed Park developments, the purpose of this study was to better understand OBP’s current and potential visitor use and markets in order for the Orton Bradley Park Board to make informed choices about future development and marketing.Item Existing and potential use and perceptions of the "Spine of the Lizard" walking routes: an investigation into the Banks Peninsula summit walkway and associated feeder tracks(Lincoln University, 2014-05) Holland, P; Espiner, Stephen; Stewart, EmmaIn the summer of 2013-14, Lincoln University, in conjunction with the Rod Donald Banks Peninsula Trust, undertook an investigation into the recreational use of Banks Peninsula Summit Walkway and associated feeder tracks. The purpose of this study was to assess the current and potential use of the track network, as well as to document perceptions of current track users about existing and future provisions to inform the “Spine of the Lizard” project, a joint partnership between the Trust and the Department of Conservation.