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
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'Lag-effect' politics and the politicisation of New Zealand farmers: Where to from here?
(Lincoln University Planning Association, 2017-12)Responding to diffuse agricultural pollution is plagued by the considerable period of time it can take before ecological thresholds are breached and the impacts of actions on land become evident in water. Reflecting on ... -
An investigation into the use of visualisations in the Resource Consent Process
(Lincoln University Planning Association, 2017)The use of Computer Aided Design (CAD) drawings or other static images (including photo-shop and simulations) to visualise potential future situations is common and powerful in planning processes. Its production, use and ... -
Towards an ontology of transport: Transport naturalised
(Lincoln University, 2018-02-02)This thesis develops an ontology of transport that is appropriate for transportation as it occurs in all earth systems, whether physical, biological, social, or economic. I argue that the current very restrictive ontology ... -
Compliance with biodiversity compensation on New Zealand’s public conservation lands
(New Zealand Ecological Society, 2018-01-01)This article assesses compliance with biodiversity compensation on New Zealand’s conservation land. Of the 261 Department of Conservation (DOC) concessions for commercial activity searched, only about 15% included compensation ... -
Following social capital: its formation, mobilization and maintenance in Vietnamese housing upgrading projects
(Lincoln University, 2017)Social capital theory has been adopted in urban governance studies to promote democracy and inclusion through processes of communities’ active citizenship and political participation. The meaning and approach of defining ...
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