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Public Perceptions of New Zealand's Environment

Cullen, Ross; Hughey, Kenneth F.D.; Kerr, Geoffrey N. - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

Zealand environment. The surveys use the Pressure-State-Response framework for state of the environment reporting to assess … fisheries, marine reserves, freshwaters, national parks, wetlands, urban environments, and the natural environment compared to … hazards; in 2002 the coastal marine environment, marine recreational fishing and preferences for expenditure on environmental …

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Sustainable development : Have we got our priorities right?

Clough, Peter - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009

Sustainable development remains high on the international agenda, even as policy makers are distracted by the political and fiscal fall-out of the global financial crisis. Its continued prominence is illustrated by various countries use of fiscal stimulus to fast-track the greening of the...

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Sustainable development: a review of progress, stagnation and potential

Gamage, Gayathri Babarenda; Boyle, Carol - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 11 (2008) 1, pp. 45-60

Many researchers have discussed the topic of sustainability or sustainable development from their chosen respective fields. This paper offers a review of the sustainable development paradigm from a number of broad perspectives, including the psychological and business facets. An account of the...

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Sustainable development: a review of progress, stagnation and potential

Gamage, Gayathri Babarenda; Boyle, Carol - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 11 (2008) 1, pp. 45-60

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What is sustainable air quality?

Longley, Ian; Olivares, Gustavo - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 16 (2013) 3/4, pp. 235-245

For 40 years or more, air quality policy has been based on the paradigm of the air quality standard as a uniform criterion of acceptable environmental degradation, built on the foundations of the precautionary principle. However, developments in health science have undermined some of the...

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Creating 21st Century Learning Environments

Li, Phan Pit; Locke, John; Nair, Prakash; Bunting, Andrew - Directorate for Education, Organisation de Coopération … - 2005

What is involved in creating learning environments for the 21<sup>st</sup> century? How can school facilities serve as tools for teaching and meet the needs of students in the future? What components are required to design effective schools, and how does architecture relate to the purposes of schooling?...

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Public Perceptions of New Zealand's Environment

Cullen, Ross; Hughey, Kenneth F.D.; Kerr, Geoffrey N. - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2006

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Resilience from the point of view of older people: ‘There's still life beyond a funny knee’

Wiles, Janine L.; Wild, Kirsty; Kerse, Ngaire; Allen, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 3, pp. 416-424

Resilience is a concept of growing interest in relation to older people and within the context of population ageing. In this paper we explore older people's understandings and experiences of resilience, drawing on interviews and participant-led focus groups with 121 older people living in two...

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Ethnicity and views about the New Zealand environment

Hughey, Kenneth FD; Kerr, Geoffrey N.; Cullen, Ross - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2014

Limited research has been completed on the relationship between ethnicity and views within a country on the environment …, pressures on the environment and its management. Some recent New Zealand research has found no significant difference in …

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Greening the WTO's Disputes Settlement Understanding: Opportunities and Risks

Rose, Jim - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2001

It is reasonable to ask whether the WTO’s rules may hamper the ability of national and sub-national governments to be genuine pacesetters in environmental law making. Environmentalists consider that the WTO’s disputes panels may encourage governments to converge to the relevant international...

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