One of the challenges of contemporary landscape architecture is the globalisation of place. Nowhere is the threat of homogenisation more apparent than in places vulnerable to change, where the potential loss of heritage fabric ...

Struggles relating to governance of water resources by indigenous peoples are a well documented issue in social science literature world-wide. Informed by the debates in this literature, our research examines recent ...

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 ...

Globalisation has both positive and negative effects on education and practice in landscape architecture, and was the central theme of a recent conference held at the St Petersburg State Forest Technical Academy. This is ...

In the debate about the impacts of globalisation the question arises about the importance of locality and how the “global” and the “local” are related (Hannerz, 1996; Robertson, 1995; True, 2006). Robertson (1995) suggests ...

This comparative study assessed the usefulness of the convergence thesis as a tool for understanding developments in leisure, recreation and sport in New Zealand and Malaysia. The study examined the interrelationship between ...

One of the most insidious influences of globalisation on landscape architecture is the hegemony of the visual. The dominance of visuality is nothing new, having been spawned during the Enlightenment, yet it has rapidly ...