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The contribution of limited-focus land-use programmes in the provision of ecosystem services in New Zealand
(Lincoln University, 2014)
A common approach in the provision of Ecosystem Services (ES) is to develop comprehensive ES markets or establish payments for ES, both of which are complex and costly. As an alternative, this research has focused on (i) ...
Pathways to resilient futures: distilling principles to guide landscape policy decisions
(Lincoln University, 2015)
New Zealand landscapes are changing from both local and global economic drivers with contemporary changes causing conflicts tensions and unease as different interests assert their understandings, ideologies, meanings and ...
Energy consumption and carbon footprints of New Zealand dairy systems: Comparison of pastoral and barn dairy farming systems : A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Lincoln University
(Lincoln University, 2019)
Over the last years, New Zealand dairy farming has expanded both in dairying area and milk production and became more intensive in terms of energy inputs. The usage of higher energy inputs are responsible for significant ...
Perspectives on Antarctic conservation: an analysis of New Zealand Antarctic stakeholder views
(Lincoln University, 2016-10-31)
The Antarctic, open to all and under no state ownership, is one of the world’s global commons. This area is facing challenges that extend beyond its boundaries. Challenges stemming from global warming, economic utilisation ...
Tools for adaptive governance for complex social-ecological systems: A review of role-playing-games as serious games at the community-policy interface
(IOP Publishing Ltd, 2019-11)
The management of natural resources—from forests to fisheries to freshwater—is becoming increasingly complex and requires new tools and processes for engaging with individuals, communities, and decision-makers. Policy ...
Regulating agricultural land use to manage water quality: the challenges for science and policy in enforcing limits on non-point source pollution in New Zealand
(Elsevier, 2014-11)
Non-point source pollution from agricultural land use is a complex issue for the management of freshwater worldwide. This paper presents a case study from New Zealand to examine how predictive modelling and land use rules ...
Converting community knowledge into catchment nutrient limits: A constructivist analysis of a New Zealand collaborative approach to water management
(Berghahn Journals, 2013-06-01)
The question posed in this article is how shifts in governance ushered in by the sustainability paradigm are reshaping knowledge governance. Drawing on constructivist theories of knowledge, I examine the tension between ...
Rescaling knowledge and governance and enrolling the future in New Zealand: a co-production analysis of Canterbury’s water management reforms to regulate diffuse pollution
(Taylor & Francis on behalf of the International Association for Society and Natural Resources, 2017)
© 2017 Taylor & Francis. Addressing diffuse agricultural pollution to improve water quality is a socioeconomic, political, and policy challenge worldwide. In New Zealand, catchment load limits are being introduced to ...
Planning approaches for the management of surf breaks in New Zealand
(2013-12)
There is a strong surfing culture, heritage, and community that shares a common spirit in New Zealand and around the world. Surf breaks are places where the practice of surfing predominantly occurs and have recently been ...
The Selwyn Waihora catchment: A triumph for collaborative management?
(Thomson Reuters on behalf of the Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand Inc., 2014-04-01)
The Selwyn River (Waikirikiri) flows into Lake Ellesmere (Te Waihora) which, at 20,000 ha surface area, is New Zealand’s fifth largest lake and its largest lagoonal lake. Although a third of the lake and parts of the ...