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The Faculty of Environment, Society and Design provides expertise in environmental design, computing, resource planning, transport studies, landscape architecture, recreation management, social sciences, tourism, communication and exercise science.
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Disrupting the regional housing market: Airbnb in New Zealand
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)The role of accommodation-sharing platforms, such as Airbnb, is seen as a disruption to more conventional accommodation providers and rental markets in many cities and regions worldwide. This Regional Graphic focuses on ... -
Wind energy perceptions: The relevance of convention theory to social acceptability
(Lincoln University, 2018)Wind energy is touted as the cheapest large-scale source of renewable energy. From wind’s global potential of 60 TW-year/year, 10% are exploitable, which represents four times the global electricity consumption. Nonetheless, ... -
Making space for community in super-productivist rural settings
(Elsevier, 2019-05)This paper contributes a perspective on an enduring debate in rural studies about the transformation of rural areas in developed market economies into more or less ‘productivist’ landscapes. We focus on the conceptual ... -
Building resilience in transient rural communities: Guidelines for council
(Lincoln UniversityLincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand, 2019-03)The social and economic wellbeing of New Zealand’s rural communities is increasingly dependent on transient workers and visitors, many of whom are from overseas. New Zealand communities also face a diversity of natural ... -
Guidelines for rural community resilience: Summary document
(Lincoln UniversityLincoln, Canterbury, New Zealand, 2019-03)This summary document contains an overview of the community situation analysis described in Building resilience in transient rural communities: Guidelines for Council.
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