Department of Environmental Management

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The Department of Environmental Management promotes the advancement of knowledge, through teaching and research, that will allow the sustainable use of environmental and natural resources.

Staff publications and research activities reflect the well established interdisciplinary nature of the Department; research interests include environmental policy, planning and politics, natural resources and environmental economics, ecological economics, transport studies, biodiversity and biodiversity policy, ecological evaluation, environmental ethics, environmental education, women and the environment, the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori approaches to environmental management, indigenous peoples and sustainability and socio-cultural and political perspectives of the environment.

Recent Submissions

The management and control of New Zealand's freshwater fisheries : A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Post-graduate Diploma in Parks, Recreation and Tourism at Lincoln University

Butler, Richard Stanley (Lincoln University, 1992)

This project briefly traces fisheries management in New Zealand through to the present system of management. This project begins with a brief description of the fish species present in New Zealand. The system of fisheries ...
Mount Cook National Park development : A project [i.e. dissertation] undertaken in partial fulfillment [sic] of the requirements for the Diploma in Natural Resources, Lincoln College

Almond, C. S. (Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1974)

This project was initiated by an ecology field trip to Mount Cook during which the plans for the development of the Mount Cook village were outlined to the group present. In the light of a cursory observation of the area ...
Tourism and regenerating place: Insights from Queen Charlotte Sound/Tōtaranui

Urlich, Stephen; Jorgensen, E. S.; Coutts, G. L. (Lincoln University Centre of Excellence for Sustainable TourismLincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand, 2021-04)

Queen Charlotte Sound/Tōtaranui in the Marlborough Sounds (‘Sounds’) is one of the iconic coastal taonga of Aotearoa New Zealand. Picton/Waitohi is the gateway to the Sounds, being the arrival and departure point for the ...
‘Hooks’ and ‘Anchors’ for relational ecosystem-based marine management

Macpherson, E.; Urlich, Stephen; Rennie, Hamish; Paul, A.; Fisher, K.; Braid, L.; Banwell, J.; Torres Ventura, J.; Jorgensen, E. (Elsevier, 2021-08)

There remains uncertainty about the legal and policy tools, processes and institutions needed to support ecosystem-based marine management (EBM). This article relies on an interdisciplinary study of ecosystem-based language ...
Exploring how New Zealand surfers construct experiences of the coastal environment : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master at Lincoln University

Campbell, Oakley (Lincoln University, 2021)

As the importance of protecting surf breaks grows internationally, surfers are becoming increasingly relied upon to inform the resource management process. This is despite conflicting discourses of how surfers value the ...