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Social–ecological connections across land, water, and sea demand a reprioritization of environmental management

Despite many sectors of society striving for sustainability in environmental management, humans often fail to identify and act on the connections and processes responsible for…
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Protecting and Restoring Freshwater Biodiversity Across Urban Areas in Aotearoa New Zealand – Encouraging the Installation of Rainwater Tanks in Urban Areas

Urbanization poses numerous challenges to freshwater biodiversity. This paper describes two studies with the joint aim of demonstrating the benefits of applying a systematic behaviour…
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National Conversations on Genetic Technologies for Environmental Purposes

To better understand what ‘suitable’ means to the public of Aotearoa New Zealand, we have engaged people in dialogic and deliberative processes to enable them…
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THESIS: Treatment of environmental considerations within New Zealand’s biosecurity framework

Environmental considerations should be given equitable weight within the decision-making processes of New Zealand’s biosecurity framework. This is especially important in a time when environmental…
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BRIEF: Encouraging Citizen Reporting of Pollution in Urban Waterways

Citizen reporting of pollution in stormwater drains and waterways can contribute to better urban freshwater management. But what influences behaviour, and if there are some…
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BRIEF: TrapSim Plus

Supporting informed decision-making in community predator control planning Predator control groups face the challenge of having to choose which control methods and efforts to use,…
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BRIEF: Te Tiriti Guided National DNA Reference Library

DNA-based monitoring tools are routinely used for conservation, biodiversity, and biosecurity surveillance. Aotearoa New Zealand lacks a national DNA reference library for local species, which…
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Collective approaches to ecosystem regeneration in Aotearoa New Zealand

There is a growing interest in scaling community-led ecosystem regeneration initiatives to extend, replicate, or coordinate activities across space, and expand or deepen the scope…
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Crazy & Ambitious 4: Eco-Index Science for Impact

Online presentation from Crazy & Ambitious 4: Eco-Index science for impact, with John Reid and Kiri Joy Wallace.
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Moko Puna Kauariki

Moko Puna Kauariki – he pukapuka a whakamaanawa ana i ngaa mahi tiaki tuna a Erina Watene (Waikato, Ngaati Mahanga, Ngaati Maniapoto, Ngaai Te Rangi)…
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Indigenous Knowledges of forest and biodiversity management: how the watchfulness of Māori complements and contributes to disaster risk reduction

The United Nations Sendai Framework 2015-30 for disaster risk reduction (DRR) reaffirms the role of Indigenous Knowledges (IK) as complementing and contributing to more effective…
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Roles of restoration collectives – poster for print

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He taonga kē ngā kaumātua: Kaumātua perspectives of te taiao, ngahere and taonga species

Funded by the Mobilising for Action theme, and led by the Centre for Indigenous Psychologies , this storymap documents themes that emerged from wānanga (purposeful…
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He taura here ki te taiao

A Māramatanga Indigenous Psychologies seminar presented by Neihana Matamua and Te Rā Moriarty titled: “He taura here ki te taiao – Exploring synchronistic meaning in…
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THESIS: Engagement Beyond Inclusion: Reframing Citizen Science in Aotearoa New Zealand

Citizen science challenges the conventional notion of research as an exclusive domain of professional scientists, by fostering collaboration to actively engage members of the public…
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Kauri K9s

Included in Auckland Council’s defences against kauri dieback are trained sniffer dogs. These dogs can accurately detect the microscopic pathogen (phytophthora agathidicida) that causes kauri…
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