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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Will they stay or will they go? Issues and options for Chinese skilled migrants in New Zealand
(Lincoln University, 2018)New Zealand is a migrant country which heavily relies on migrants to support its population and economic growth. Business/skilled migrants make the majority while Chinese migrants are the largest migrant group in New ... -
Spatial characteristics of bicycle–motor vehicle crashes in Christchurch, New Zealand: A case-control approach
(University of Minnesota, Center for Transportation Studies, and University of Minnesota, Networks, Economics, and Urban Systems Research Group (NeXuS), 2018-10-22)This paper aims to examine the risk of bicycle-motor vehicle crashes occurring on a network-wide level in Christchurch, New Zealand, based on the spatial characteristics present in the road environment. To achieve this, ... -
Understanding New Zealand’s changing vehicle travel patterns
(Lincoln University, 2018)In recent years New Zealand has seen a changing trend in its vehicle kilometres travelled (VKT) per capita, which has generally trended downward. This is part of a global trend occuring across a number of western countries, ... -
Are elephants the most disastrous agricultural pests or the agents of ecological restorations?
(OMICS International, 2017)Human-elephant interactions occur in the areas where people coexist with elephants. It happens in the communities neighbouring core wildlife protected areas. Human and elephants have coexisted since the beginning of ... -
The approaches to classifying surf breaks in New Zealand
(Lincoln University, 2018)This research is focused on classification as a process and how it relates to the identification of regionally significant surf breaks in New Zealand. New Zealand is the first country to incorporate surf breaks into ...
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