Clashing epistemologies and contrasting injustice: an Aotearoa/ New Zealand case
How, as researchers, do we recognise and address the implicit biases when engaging across multiple knowledge ecologies. In this paper, we consider the way historical…
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Risk Assessment & Ecosystem Impacts 2022
We need to understand kauri dieback and myrtle rust better if we want to protect our ngahere. That’s why the goal of the ‘Risk Assessment…
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Walking, Sensing, Knowing: An Ethnography on Foot Around Forest Biosecurity Interventions in Te-Ika-ā-Māui
Walking has gained prominence in social sciences as a source of inspiration for scholarly narratives and methodological experimentation with embodied ways of knowing. Walking across…
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Neoliberal Knowledge Production in Aotearoa New Zealand: Confronting Kauri Dieback and Myrtle Rust
The detection of kauri dieback and myrtle rust pathogens in Aotearoa|New Zealand prompted the government to fund research and engagement into what has been constructed…
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Disease Narratives and Artistic Alternatives
The dominant colonial scientific narrative of managing disease is one of risk, response, and control. This narrative, while shifting, continues to frame the priorities and…
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Te Mauri o te Kauri me te Ngahere: Indigenous Knowledge, te Taiao (the Environment) and Wellbeing.
Ko te kauri he rākau rongonui, he rākau rangatira puta noa i Te Tai Tokerau. The kauri (Agatha australis) is a chiefly tree that represents…
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Why understanding the biology of Phytophthora agathidicida matters – Jochem Vink
Presented as part of the Kaurilands Summit 2023, hosted by Ngā Rākau Taketake. To find out more about the Control, Protect, Cure research theme…
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Māori Rights and Interests in the Conservation Space
A presentation given as part of the Te Mana Motuhake o te Kākano: Māori Seed Conservation Hui held online, 16 October 2023. In this presentation,…
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Thesis: Exploring the impacts of Phytophthora agathidicida on soil bacterial communities associated with kauri (Agathis australis)
This study used 16S rRNA gene sequencing to examine the impact of P. agathidicida on the soil bacteria of ~700 kauri trees in the Waitākere…
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Patuharakeke: Ngā Rākau Taketake Summary Report
An ArcGIS storymap created by the Patuharakeke Biodiversity Management Area documenting the research mahi delivered through Te Whakahononga Pou and funded by Ngā Rākau Taketake.
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THESIS: Exploring the Role of Drama in Environmental Education: A Case Study on Child Agency and Participation on Aotea Great Barrier Island
Environmental education is increasingly important worldwide as complex environmental challenges continue to emerge. Aotearoa-New Zealand is not exempt from this, with extreme weather events, ecosystem…
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Mātauranga Māori in the Mātauranga Māori Framework for Surveillance of Plant Pathogens – A Literature Review
This report has been commissioned by Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research as part of the research programme ‘Mātauranga Māori Framework for Surveillance (MMFS) of Plant Pathogens’.…
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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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Crazy & Ambitious 2 – 2019
A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge conference, Crazy & Ambitious 2. 20 – 21 May 2019, Te Papa Wellington.
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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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Toitū te Ngahere Lesson Plan
Toitū te Ngahere, the Arts in Schools for Forest Health project, was a collaborative research project involving university researchers, five primary schools and their communities,…
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