Science: Reports
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Soft Infrastructure for Hard Times: Collaborative Planning for the (Re)Building of Better Homes, Towns and Cities
(National Science Challenge, 2019)Disaster recovery involves the restoration, repair and rejuvenation of both hard and soft infrastructure. In this report we present observationsfrom seven case studies of collaborative planning from post-earthquake ... -
Interest groups, vested interests, and the myth of apolitical administration : the politics of land tenure reform on the South Island of New Zealand
(2006)This report explores the political history, property rights, and administrative politics of the land tenure reform process to ask why the Crown has paid farmers millions of dollars to convert land from leasehold to freehold. ... -
Wildland-Urban Interface Fires in New Zealand: Current Situation and Forthcoming Research Projects
(SFPE Europe, 2020)During the last decade, more countries have become considerably affected by wildfire. In Europe for example, northern countries such as Sweden, Norway and Scotland realized that they are not immune to this phenomenon. ... -
When Cultivate Thrives: Developing Criteria for Community Economy Return on Investment
(2019)Project overview: Urban communities around the world are using farming and gardening to promote food security, social inclusion and wellbeing. For Christchurch-based Cultivate, urban farms are not only physical places ... -
Preparing for a sustained volcanic degassing episode in Auckland
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Exploratory fact-finding scoping study on "digital sequence information" on genetic resources for food and agriculture
(UN FAO, 2018)1. The Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (Commission), at its Sixteenth Regular Session, established a new work stream on “digital sequence information” (“DSI”) on genetic resources for food and ... -
The attraction, integration, and retention of newcomers in regional settlements
(AgResearch/BBHTC, 2020)This annotated bibliography and summary literature review was prepared in support of the Thriving Regions (South Island) research theme of the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge: Ko ngā ... -
Chapter 4: Cross-cutting Issues
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)As understanding of the interdependence between a healthy planet and healthy people becomes more developed, complex issues that thread through systems and societies gain new importance. Beyond the traditional Global ... -
Stand Strong, Walk Tall: Prehabilitation for a Better Future - A Sexual Abuse Prevention Project. Phase One: Intervention Development
(2020)Eighty-four percent of child sexual abuse convictions received in Aotearoa New Zealand in a given year are to individuals not previously known to have committed sexual offences. Yet, current approaches to preventing such ... -
Seagrass beds provide habitat for crabs, shrimps and fish in two estuaries on the South Island of New Zealand
(2020)1. Seagrasses are marine angiosperms that potentially provide habitat for crabs, shrimps and fish. However, these types of data are lacking for the seagrass species (Zostera muelleri/rimurēhia) that inhabit intertidal ... -
Delivering Urban Wellbeing through Transformative Community Enterprise: Final Report
(2019)Urban communities around the world are using farming and gardening to promote food security, social inclusion and wellbeing (Turner, Henryks and Pearson, 2011). In the New Zealand city of Christchurch, a recently formed ... -
Second-tier settlement regeneration and revitalisation: the role of the built environment
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The Geohealth Laboratory
(2015)
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