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Visitors' and locals' experiences of Westland, New Zealand

Fairweather, John R.; Newton, Bronwyn; Swaffield, Simon R.; Simmons, David G. (Lincoln University. Tourism Recreation Research and Education Centre, 2001-07)
The objective of this study was to develop an understanding of visitors' and locals' experiences of the Westland landscape and infrastructure. The interest in landscape experience reflects the central role that both passive and active involvement in lands ...
Gisborne / East Coast field research on attitudes to land use change : an analysis of impediments to forest sector development

Tomlinson, Craig J.; Fairweather, John R.; Swaffield, Simon R. (Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2000-12)
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 ...
Understanding visitors' experiences in Kaikoura using photographs of landscapes and Q method

Fairweather, John R.; Swaffield, Simon R.; Simmons, David G. (Lincoln University. Tourism Research and Education Centre, 1998-09)
The primary objective of this study was to develop an understanding of visitors' experiences of the Kaikoura landscape using photographs of landscape and Q method. The literature on landscape perception shows that there is a range of paradigms extending f ...
A comparison of the employment generated by forestry and agriculture in New Zealand

Fairweather, John R.; Mayell, P. J.; Swaffield, Simon R. (Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2000-08)
The objective of the research reported here was to assess land use change in forestry and agriculture in both New Zealand as a whole and the main regions, with a focus on the relationship of land use to employment. This report presents these results and p ...
Public perceptions of natural and modified landscapes of the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand

Fairweather, John R.; Swaffield, Simon R. (Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 1999-10)
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 ...
Public perceptions of outstanding natural landscapes in the Auckland region

Fairweather, John R.; Swaffield, Simon R. (Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2004-12)
There are many planning and policy decisions relating to land management that require some level of input from the public. One such area is public perception of the natural character of the landscape. This research reports on how members of the public and ...
Values and management options for sustainable forest management in New Zealand

Fairweather, John R.; Blackburn, Astrid L.; Swaffield, Simon R.; Hock, B. (Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2003-09)
In many sectors of primary production there is growing interest, or concern with, certification. In recent years, forestry is one sector where significant progress has been made and at the present time there is much interest in sustainable forest manageme ...
Community perception of forest sector development on the New Zealand East Coast : likely and acceptable employment activities, infrastructure and landscape change

Swaffield, Simon R.; Fairweather, John R. (Lincoln University. Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit, 2000-12)
Opinion leaders in the Gisborne East Coast community have contrasting views on the likely character and benefits of employment, infrastructure and landscape change arising from forest sector development. The views expressed in the survey suggest that ther ...
Preferences for land use options in the Mackenzie/Waitaki Basin : A Q-method analysis of stakeholders’ preferences for visual images of six land uses on four land forms

Fairweather, John R.; Swaffield, Simon R.; Langer, L.; Bowring, Jacqueline; Ledgard, N. (Lincoln University. Agribusiness & Economics Research Unit, 1994-04)
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 ...
Visitors’ and locals’ views of environmental management in Christchurch, New Zealand

Fairweather, John R.; Maslin, Crystal L.; Swaffield, Simon R.; Simmons, David G. (Lincoln University. Tourism Recreation Research and Education Centre, 2003-04)
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 ...