NZGS2008 Detailed Programme

Siobhan O’Kane

Whose Water for Whom? Reflections on the Role of the Planner in Sustainable Water Governance in New York and New Zealand

Eric W. LaFary

Ecology, Policy and Perceptions: Making Connections

Petra Van Limburg

Public Ecology in Wetland Restoration: Can Community-Based Monitoring Link Science, Belief and Values?

Dr Matthew Henry

Mobile Geographies of New Zealand Science: Leonard Cockayne and the Moral Imperative of Mobility

Gethin Davison

Changing Places: Fruitvale Village

Mairi Jay

A Human Ecology of Urban Ecological Restoration

Robin Kearns and Damian Collins

Development Proposals at Ocean Beach, Hawke's Bay: Exploring Geographies of Affect and Place-Attachment

Discussion

Felicity Powell

Networking and Location Decisions: Investigating the Relationship between the Networks of Business Owners and their Spatial Behaviour 

Doug Clover

Electric Vehicles, an Opportunity for a more Sustainable Urban Land Transport System?

Philippa Howden-Chapman

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in New Zealand: The New Centre for Sustainable Cities

Suzanne Mavoa

Investigating the Relationship between the Built Environment, Transport and Health

Warwick Murray and Eric Pawson

A panel presentation and reflection focusing on:
The journals’ main achievements over the last five years;
The major challenges facing the journals over the next five years; and
Ideas about what kind of journals we might want to see in five years time.

Ian Fuller and Mike Marden

Connectivity in Steepland Environments: Complex Behaviour at the Slope-Channel Nexus and Implications for Sediment Delivery

Bethanna Jackson

Quantifying the Impacts of Land Management on Environmental Risk and Services

Nick Preston

Multiple Occurrence Regional Landslide Events and Sustainable Land Use

David Kennedy

Hurricane Induced Coastal Change on the Yucatan Coast, Mexico: Lessons for New Zealand

Gary Brierley and Kirstie Fryirs

Don’t Fight The Site: Geomorphic Considerations in Catchment-Scale River Rehabilitation Planning

Ian Fuller, Jane Richardson and Les Basher

Morphological Budgeting as a Tool to Manage Gravel Extraction in the Upper Motueka River, Nelson, New Zealand

Catherine Frericks

The Waiotahi Floodplain as an Example of a Holocene Incised Valley Infill Sedimentary Sequence Developing on a Tectonically Active Subsiding Coastline, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Ria Tung

Changes in the Planform Morphology of the Lower Tongariro River (Channel Adjustments During 1928 – 2002)

D. Murray Hicks, John Tunnicliffe and Jeremy Walsh

Predicting and Managing the Geomorphic Effects of Dams and Flood Harvesting

Helen Reid

Bed Heterogeneity and Uptake of Aquatic Functional Habitat Types in Twin Streams Catchment

Mike Joy

Predicting Freshwater Fish Distribution at a Regional Scale

Arved Schwendel, Russell G. Death and Ian C. Fuller

Influence of Bedload Transport on Benthic Invertebrate Communities in Mountain Streams

Selene Conn

Vegetation Succession on Geomorphic Units in the Kauaeranga River, Coromandel, New Zealand

Simon Aiken

The Drainage Basin as a Geomorphic Unit

Nick Reid

Applications of Geomorphic Thresholds for Understanding Geomorphic Unit Assemblages

Discussion

John Hutton

Crown Apologies, Commercial Redress and the Emergence of Post-Settlement Iwi

Trevor King and Rohana Ulluwishewa

Colonisation and the Indigenous: A Theory to Confront Inequity and Unsustainability

Garth Cant

Indigenous Rights and the Use of Lakes for Hydro-Electric Power Schemes: Norway and New Zealand

Angeline Greensill (tbc)

The Crown Apologizes and then What?

Robyn Longhurst

Embodying Transnationalism: Migrant Women, Food and 'Home' in Hamilton, New Zealand

Naomi Simmonds

Mana Wāhine Geographies- Exploring the Relationship between Māori Women and Papatuanuku in Contemporary Aotearoa

Yvonne Underhill-Sem

No Woman Is An Island: Creating New Subjectivities on Loloata Island, Papua New Guinea

Isabelle Kunze

The Gendered Consumption of Bottled Water in New Zealand

Lynda Johnston

Queer(ing) Geographies 'Down-Under': Some Notes on Sexuality and Space in Australasia

Paul Beere

Youth Car Culture, Identity and Gender

Lee Thompson

Gender, Abjection and Decay

Discussion

Carey-Ann Morrison

Home Is Where The Heart Is: Emotional Geographies of Young Heterosexual Couples' Love in and of Homes

Denise Bijoux

Women's Everyday Lives: Routine, Ritual and Meaningful Mundaneity in the Cultivation of 'Home'

Cherie Todd

Women Gamers at Home

Keri Brown

Upsetting Geographies: Sacred Body, Sacred Home

Philip S. Morrison

Local Well-Being and the Geography of Happiness

Peter Day

Geo-Demographic Comparisons of Global Inequalities in Mortality

Paul White

Degrees of Deprivation: Trends in Deprivation 1996-2001, and Implications for Health Inequalities

Ross Barnett

Improving Smoking Cessation Rates in Disadvantaged Communities – Current Practice and Policy Options

Vivienne Ivory

Neighbourhood Social Fragmentation, Deprivation and Mental health; Exploring the Multilevel Relationships

Francis Ayuka

Neighbourhood Access to Alcohol Outlets and Individual Health Behaviour in New Zealand

Robin Quigg

Pace and Place: Using Accelerometers and GPS Units to Measure Children's Physical Activity

Kylie Mason

A National Study of Neighbourhood Access to Gambling Opportunities and Individual Gambling Behaviour

Jamie Pearce

Does Neighbourhood Access to Community Resources Influence Health Inequalities in New Zealand?

David Conradson

Shifting Landscapes of Residential Aged Care: Privatisation and Internationalisation in New Zealand

Janine Wiles, Liz Kiata, Ngaire Kerse, Annette Leibing and Nancy Guberman

Resilient Ageing in Place: Improving the Lives of Older People in New Zealand Communities

Juliana Mansvelt

Consuming Narratives: Shopping Stories in Later Life

Robin Kearns

Discussant

Christina Ergler

Development of the Health Care System in Chennai, South India: Opportunities and Constraints for the Urban Poor

Jane Yeon Jae Lee

Why do First-Generation Koreans in Auckland Travel to their “Homeland” for Serious Medical Operations?: A Qualitative Analysis of Health and Migration

Tara Coleman

Out of Place? Young People, Education, and Sexuality

Jason Myers

Moving on the Margins: Emotional Geographies of HIV in Auckland

Toni White

Pushing the Environment Buttons: A Look at the Toenepi Dairying Catchment

Richard Willis

1984 Revisited: Dairy Farming in New Zealand and The Netherlands

Christina Stringer, Richard Le Heron, Christine Tamásy and Stuart Gray

Fonterra’s Competitive Strategies and Partnerships in a Globalising Dairy Industry

Richard Le Heron

Following the Globalising Organisation: Towards a Politics of Emergence

Christopher Rosin

Swimming Against the Productivist Current: Promoting Organic Milk Production in New Zealand

Alexander Wearing

Woody Plant Colonisation of Hedgerows In Otago, South Island, New Zealand

John Paterson

Lifestyle Blocks and a Typology of Rural Smallholding

Gijsbert Hoogendoorn

Changing Countryside’s, Changing Villages:  Second Homes in Rhodes, South Africa

David Hayward

Shifting Service Centres in Mid-Northland: Tracing the Outcomes of Demographic and Economic Changes

Annie Bartos

Making Meaning in the Moment: Child Centered Methodologies for Understanding Environmental Knowledges

Robin Kearns, Karen Witten, Hector Kaiwai and Victoria Jensen

Cameras, Communities and Complexities: Using Photovoice to Understand  Walking Perceptions and Practices

Karen Fisher

Positionality and Fieldwork in The Philippines

Julie Cupples

Rethinking Electoral Geography: Spaces and Practices of Democracy in Nicaragua

Steven Kelly

Introduction: Sustainability and Community Change

Murray McGregor

Reflections on the Role of Participatory Research in Creating Sustainable Livelihoods in Desert Australia

Huub Kerckhoffs

The Science of Trust

Dan Bloomer

‘You Can Lead A Horse To Water’

Steven Kelly, Willie Smith and Murray Bruges

How Much Participation?: Recognising the Capabilities and Limitations of Scientists and Communities in Research Development

Murray McGregor, Willie Smith, Dan Bloomer,  Huub Kerckhoffs and Murray Bruges

Workshop/Round Table

David Conradson and Eric Pawson

New Cultural Economies of Marginality: Revisiting the West Coast, New Zealand

Phillipa Mitchell

Cyberspace and Changing Governmental Practices in Auckland’s Local Government

Fiona Ryan

Developing Auckland as a World Class City

Steffen Wetzstein

Auckland’s Post-Restructuring Economic Governance and the Effects on Public and Private Investment: A Preliminary Analysis

Victoria McGregor

Development and Implementation of a Sustainable Economic Growth Strategy – The Wellington Regional Strategy

Wendy Larner and Maureen Molloy

Who Needs Cultural Intermediaries, Indeed?

Glenn Banks and John Overton

Old World, Third World, New World: Changing Geographies of the Global Wine Industry

Discussion

Christine Tamásy

Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Regional Economic Growth: A New Zealand Perspective

Nick Lewis

Brand New Zealand: Making a New Economic Space

Richard Le Heron

After-Neoliberal Regional Economic Policy in the Making: Political Projects and Institutional Development for Auckland’s Economic Transformation

David Waite, Nick Lewis and Richard Le Heron

Auckland’s Position in Global Value Chains: Integrating Wider Notions of Network, Temporality, and Embeddedness

Colin Kennedy

Running to Stand Still: The Persistence of Inequality in Chile, 1964 – 2008

Ed Challies and Warwick Murray

Global Commodity Chains and Rural Livelihoods: The Case of Small-Scale Berry Producers in Yerbas Buenas, Chile

Marcela Palomino Schalscha

Making Development, Making a Living: Researching Development Discourses and Practices Among the Mapuche-Pehuenche Communities in the Queuco Valley, Alto Bio Bio, Chile

Discussion

Roger Baars

Poverty Alleviation through Preferential Trade

Julie Cupples and Irving Larios

A Functional Anarchy: Love, Patriotism and the Resistance to Free Trade in Costa Rica

Sarah Van Iddekinge

‘Sustainability’ and the Political Ecology of Tourism and Social Movements in the Mexican Riviera Maya

Mike Gavin

Pharmacy in the Fallows: Tropical Rainforest Use and Conservation in Amazonia

Tony Binns,  Ed Challies,  Steven Kelly, Annette Lanigan, Robyn Longhurst

Regina Scheyvens

Tourism, Land Tenure and Poverty Alleviation in the Pacific: An Exploration of Complex Realities

Alec Thornton and Tony Binns

Alienation and Obligation: The Role of Kinship and Church Obligations on the Emergence of Landlessness in Samoa

Shawn Shen

Environmental Insecurity, Instability and Injustice: Perceptions and Challenges of Climate Change Refugees and Migrants from Tuvalu to New Zealand

Maria Borovnik

Tuvalu Thirty Years on from Independence – Perspectives from Seafarers’ Life-Stories

Rachel Pain and Kye Askins

Contact Zones and Transformatory Moments: Young Refugees, Interaction and Participatory Art

Pip Collie

Young Assyrian Women Negotiating their Identities in New Zealand

Dr Peter Hopkins

Ethical Issues in Research with Asylum-Seeking and Refugee Children and Young People

Kevin Dunn and Natasha Klocker

North African Refugees in Australia: Scoping a Research Agenda on Experiences and Civic Participation

Lars Brabyn

Using GIS to Describe the Landscape Experience of Hiking Tracks

Michael Rehm

Valuing the Grammar Zone: The Relationship between Access to Popular Public Schools and House Price

Onuwa Okwuashi, Etim Eyo, Jack Mcconchie and Peter Nwilo

A GIS Cellular Automata Calibration using Fuzzy Support Vector Machine for Modelling Urban Growth

Mairéad De Róiste

Local Government, GIS and the Public

Richard Le Heron

Short Introduction

Harvey Perkins, Matt Henry, Mike Roche, Richard Le Heron, Nick Lewis, Chris Rosin

Short Panel Presentations

Kathryn Carter

Examining the Human Aspects of Invasive Freshwater Fish Management

Discussion

Nick Lewis

Promoting Political Projects of the Social Sciences – BRCSS in After-Neoliberal New Zealand

David Hayward, Richard Le Heron, Nick Lewis, Christina Stringer and Christine Tamásy

Global Geographic Education in Practice: The AAG’s CGGE Project

Discussion

Geoff Connell

NZQA - National Moderators of Geography

Murray Fastier

NCEA Geography Assessment Post Implementation Phase: Managing NCEA Workloads More Effectively and Addressing Assessment Versus Teaching and Learning Imbalances

Introduction to George Hook, the newly appointed NZQA Geography national Assessment Facilitator.

Chris Arcus

NZ Ministry of Education  - The NZ Curriculum: Implementation

Tony Turnock

Ministry of Education - Supporting Documents for Senior Secondary Subjects within the Development of ‘Schools Plus’

Andrea Wheeler

What do we Mean by Equality when Gender is a Prohibited Discourse? The UK Building Schools for the Future and Sustainable Schools Programme

Discussion

Julie Trafford

Strategic Supervision Practices: Sustaining Postgraduate Geography Research within Inequitable Political Contexts

Workshop: The Formation of a National Postgraduate Network for Geography Students. 
Facilitator: Phillipa Mitchell with Simon Aiken (Masters, Auckland), Emily McKibbin (Honours, Auckland) and Claire Gregory (Phd, Auckland)

Chandima Daskon and Tony Binns

Culture, Cultural Capital and Sustainability: Life, Work and Tradition in Sri Lanka’s Kandyan Villages

Anthony George and Tony Binns

Poverty Alleviation and Livelihood Security in The Caribbean: Evaluating St Lucia’s ‘Country Poverty Assessment’ and Charting a More Sustainable Future

Tony Binns and Assoc. Prof. Etienne Nel

Decentralizing Economic Development: A Critical Reflection on the Experience of Local Economic Development in South Africa

Doug Johnston

How can we Know that Makes Malaysia Tick? A Dilemma in ‘Regional Geography’

Amma Buckley

Wellbeing and the Natural Environment: Quality of Life in a Biosphere Reserve

Bernard Huber

The Governmentality of Co-Management: Insights from Tthe Moose Management Plan for Mi’kmaq Hunting Rights in Nova Scotia, Canada

Simon Ngawhika

Overcoming Institutional Barriers to an Efficient Nutrient Trading Market: Aligning the Roles of Markets and Regulators to Sustain Water Quality in the Lake Rotorua Catchment

Mike Roche and Sohel Firdos

Forests and Forestry in India and New Zealand

Pedagogy (Secondary Geography) Chair: Sara Kindon
(MC102)

Jocelyn Papperil

Sustainability Education

Rachel Tallon

(Mis) Representing the Majority World: The Difficulty in Representing the Majority World in the Minority World Classroom

Sally Hewlett

International Development and Education – Understanding Through Personal Insight

Teachers Panel Discussion: Tools for Building the Secondary Geography Community Chair: Annette Lanigan
(C217)

Eric Pawson

The GeoEd Section of the New Zealand Geographer

Joycelyn Papprill

Social Sciences Online

Annette Lanigan

The New Zealand Board of Geography Teachers

General

How can each of these best serve and develop the teaching and learning of Secondary Geography in New Zealand Schools.