The objective of the research presented in this report was to develop an understanding of visitors' and locals' views of environmental management in Christchurch. A total of 63 people were selected in a diverse, non-random sample with roughly equal propor ...

This study forms part of a wider research programme aimed at developing improved planning methodologies for resource management. The overall programme focuses upon the estimation of socio-economic effects of land use change in ruraI environments, using th ...

As a component of research into ""Socio-economic Adaptations to Emerging Markets"", an ethnographic field study into community attitudes to change in land use from farming to forestry has been undertaken. This study was conducted in the Gisborne and East ...

The primary objective of this study was to document public perception of natural character in the biophysical environment using the Coromandel Peninsula as a case study of landscape settings. The design of the research used photographs of landscape and Q ...

This report uses an ethnographic approach to provide a description and analysis of the social context of land use change in the Mackenzie/Waitaki Basin. In order to understand current land use dynamics it begins by reviewing the history of land use change ...