Centre for Land Environment and People (LEaP)

LEaP aims to enhance the economic, environmental and social sustainability of societies by improving the understanding of local-global change interactions and by motivating and engaging stakeholders in New Zealand and elsewhere. The Centre's mission statement is 'a network for creating and sharing knowledge', with strategic goals to:

• Undertake high quality interdisciplinary theoretical and applied research and critique of the changing relationships within and between society and the environment
• Promote stewardship, health and wellbeing of the environment, society and its diverse cultures, through our educational and research activities