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Airport congestion in New Zealand
(Lincoln University, 1998)
The phenomenon of airport congestion at New Zealand's major airports is the subject of this research thesis. A growing problem in New Zealand, the importance of understanding this problem and identifying options for solution ...
An ecotourism strategy for New Zealand
(Lincoln University, 1997)
Ecotourism is rapidly growing throughout the world and is predicted to be one of the major growth areas heading toward the year 2000. This increase is predominantly due to the contemporary traveller becoming more interested ...
Fortress-dwellers to global players? Globalisation and New Zealand: description, discourse and action
(Lincoln University, 2003)
The simplistic use of broad concepts or metaphors results in 'grooved thinking'. My thesis is that globalisation and its related concepts have become accepted amongst influential opinion-shapers in New Zealand as an ...
Riparian management: an exploration into connecting the biophysical and social sciences
(Lincoln University, 2006)
Over the last fifty years, environmental management thinking has been moving from the traditional 'balance of nature' and 'command and control' perspectives towards an evolving paradigm that explicitly recognises the ...
The rational landscape in the Garden of Eden: deriving a complex ecological aesthetic from the tastes and interpretations of New Zealand's farmed landscapes
(Lincoln University, 2002)
Landscapes are representations of a range of possible ways of life, at the same time people may interpret landscapes in a variety of ways, ascribing different meanings to the same landscape and expressing these through ...
Restoring what? : a socio-cultural exploration of ecological restoration in Christchurch and Canterbury
(Lincoln University, 2002)
The environmental issues we face today are caused by a historical conceptual separation of nature from culture. In Aotearoa New Zealand, and more specifically Christchurch and Canterbury, one of these issues is a depletion ...
From earth's last islands: The global origins of Green politics
(Lincoln University, 1999)
Since World War Two the world has undergone a profound economic and political transformation, from an international economy and internationalist politics to a global economy and globalist politics. The Bretton Woods ...
A study of co-management of National Parks in Aotearoa/New Zealand
(Lincoln University, 1996)
National parks have been associated with public ownership and Government agency management for a long time. The changing character of national park ownership and management around the world has challenged this association. ...
A complicated chain of circumstances : decision making in the New Zealand wool supply chains
(Lincoln University, 2009)
This dissertation explores the influences on individual decision making in a complex, real
world context – the New Zealand wool supply chain. It asks two fundamental questions, first, how do decision makers make decisions ...
Coastal and marine conservation : a New Zealand perspective
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1987)
This study introduces New Zealand's coastal/marine environment as both a natural habitat and a natural resource complex. It outlines the unique management features and characteristics of New Zealand's marine environment ...