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Peer review of saline intrusion model and risk assessment for the exploration phase of the Wellington Harbour Exploration Bores Project
(2018)This report presents a peer review of groundwater modelling work carried out by Earth in Mind as part of the exploration phase Wellington Harbour Exploration Bores project (termed SP1a). The SP1a project has the objective ... -
Socio-cultural and ecological indicators of Canterbury estuaries
(2017)Estuaries support a wide range of human activities and values, but are one of the most anthropogenically impacted ecosystems in the world. Ki uta ki tai (mountain to sea) is a holistic view of waterways, that is embodied ... -
Draft Exploratory Fact-Finding Scoping Study on “Digital Sequence Information” on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
(United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 2018)This exploratory fact-finding scoping study examines how digital sequence information (DSI) on genetic resources for food and agriculture is currently being used, how it might be used in the future and what the implications ... -
Initial scan of policy / issues relevant to autonomous vehicle development and deployment.
(2018)Throughout the world, governments are considering the potential disruptive impacts of autonomous vehicle technology. It is widely expected that those countries that implement adaptive and successful transitions to shared ... -
Think Piece: Autonomous vehicles and future urban environments: Exploring implications for wellbeing in an ageing society
(2018)Imagine a world where driving is no longer a useful skill. It might be a world in which people walk, cycle, and use a shared fleet of electric autonomous vehicles to get around. There might be no private cars or parking, ... -
Four plausible scenarios for transport in New Zealand in 2048
(2018)This document results from a project exploring the implications of changing transport systems. It has a particular focus on autonomous vehicles (AVs) and their implications for the wellbeing of older people and ageing ... -
Multi-Hazard Flooding Interactions in the Ōpāwaho Heathcote Catchment,Christchurch, New Zealand
(University of Canterbury, 2016)This report provides an initial overview and gap analysis of the multi-hazards interactions that might affect fluvial and pluvial flooding (FPF) hazard in the Ōpāwaho Heathcote catchment. As per the terms of reference, ... -
Lewis, desire and paradox
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Multi-Hazard Analysis: Gap Analysis Report
(Jacobs, 2017)Christchurch City Council (Council) is undertaking the Land Drainage Recovery Programme in order to assess the effects of the earthquakes on flood risk to Christchurch. In the course of these investigations it has ... -
Creating a Road Network Analysis Layer with Travel Time Estimates using Open-source Data
(GeoHealth Laboratory, 2017)A main focus of health geography research is assessing the impacts of environmental exposures on health. Exposures, in this instance, are anything in the environment that has the potential to negatively affect or positively ... -
A classification of New Zealand's coastal hydrosystems
(Ministry for the Environment, 2016)New Zealand has a long (18,000 km including estuarine shores) and highly varied coastline. New Zealand’s coastal water bodies, flowing and still, fresh to saline, span a wide range of environments; coastal wetlands; ... -
Effects of suspended sediment on freshwater fish
(Landcare Research, 2014)This report integrates new information on the effects of suspended sediment on fish with existing literature information to further develop guidance for determining acceptable suspended sediment concentrations in freshwater ... -
The observational roots of reference of the semantic web
(2012)Shared reference is an essential aspect of meaning. It is also indispensable for the semantic web, since it enables to weave the global graph, i.e., it allows different users to contribute to an identical referent. For ... -
Dissecting accretion and outflows in accreting white dwarf binaries
(2015)This is a White Paper in support of the mission concept of the Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT), proposed as a medium-sized ESA mission. We discuss the potential of LOFT for the study of accreting white ... -
A comparison of worst case performance of priority queues used in Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm
(University of Canterbury, 1986)This report presents results of experiments comparing the worst case performance of Dijkstra's Single Source Shortest Path algorithm using different priority queues. A description and worst case analysis are given of the ... -
Review: Bowlby 25th Annivesary Memorial conference
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They are the elements in the room but only very briefly
(The Press, ChristchurchUniversity of Canterbury. Chemistry, 2016)Chemistry made it into the mainstream news last week, following the announcement from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) that four new elements have been discovered. So is this a big deal and ... -
The geology of the Malvern Hills, with map and sections, panoramic sketches, and photographs.
(N.Z. Dept. of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1928)
