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Monitoring stress and wellness in elite athletes undertaking tertiary study
(Lincoln University, 2018)
Athletes undertaking full-time sporting commitments alongside full-time tertiary studies (commonly known as sport scholars) are a unique population because of the need to perform to a high level in both sport and academic ...
Person-environment fit: Needs and challenges in Antarctica
(Lincoln University, 2018)
Thousands of individuals are deployed to Antarctica every year to support scientific research. Understanding how they cope in such an unusual location can reveal the factors and dynamic processes of human adaptation inherent ...
From place-responsive to place-constructive outdoor education: A case study of the Port Hills, Christchurch, New Zealand.
(Lincoln University, 2018)
The Port Hills in Christchurch, New Zealand, form a peri‐urban area of volcanic hills that separates the city of Christchurch from the Lyttelton Harbour. The Port Hills are a place rich in history, ecological conservation ...
Tourism and Community Empowerment: Critical Insights from Indonesia
(Lincoln University, 2018)
Empowerment is a way of enhancing an individual’s or a community’s capacity to make choices and transform those choices into desired actions leading to desired outcomes. In a tourism context, scholars have noted that ...
Transformations for resilient rural futures: The case of Kaikōura, Aotearoa-New Zealand
(MDPI, 2018-06)
On 14 November 2016, a magnitude (Mw) 7.8 earthquake struck the small coastal settlement of Kaikōura, Aotearoa-New Zealand. With an economy based on tourism, agriculture, and fishing, Kaikōura was immediately faced with ...
Combined diet and physical activity is better than diet or physical activity alone at improving health outcomes for patients in New Zealand's primary care intervention
(BioMed Central, 2018-02-08)
Background: A dearth of knowledge exists regarding how multiple health behavior changes made within an exercise prescription programme can improve health parameters. This study aimed to analyse the impact of changing diet ...
Acute effect of different normobaric hypoxic conditions on shuttle repeated sprint performance in futsal players
(University of Pitesti, 2018-03-01)
This study aimed to investigate the acute effects of different environmental oxygen conditions on shuttle repeated sprint performance in futsal players. Using a counterbalanced design, 16 male university-level futsal players ...
Building resilience in transient rural communities – a post-earthquake regional study: Fieldwork report
(Lincoln University, 2018-11)
This report forms part of a research project examining rural community resilience to natural hazard events, with a particular focus on transient population groups. A preliminary desktop and scoping exercise was undertaken ...
Swimming with ideas: What happens to creativity in the wake of a disaster and the waves of pro-social recovery behaviour that follow?
(VGTU Press, 2018-03-27)
Creativity that is driven by a need for physical or economic survival, which disasters are likely to inspire, raises the question of whether such creativity fits with conventional theories and perspectives of creativity. ...
‘It’s a harsh fact of life with the RMA’: Neo-liberalism and the realities of community sports facility development by the private sector in New Zealand
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)
Despite the importance of facilities as primary sites for delivery of leisure and sport services, there has been a scarcity of academic literature on the provision of community sports facilities and the processes through ...