A5066390036- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Hydropower, Displacement, Environmental Impact
- Geological formations and processes
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Hydraulic flow and structures
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Tree-ring climate responses
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Water resources management and optimization
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Urban Planning and Governance
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Environmental law and policy
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
Victoria University of Wellington
2022-2023
University of Auckland
2012-2022
Assertions of a ‘naughty world’ (Kennedy, 1979) point to the importance place-based knowledge in informing landscape interpretations and management applications. Building upon conceptual theoretical insights into geomorphic character, behaviour evolution rivers, this paper outlines an approach practice fluvial geomorphology: ‘reading landscape’. This scaffolded framework field-based explicitly recognizes contingent nature biophysical interactions within any given landscape. A bottom-up,...
Geomorphology shapes the way we perceive world around us, making certain ways of understanding and interacting with landscapes more possible than others. Despite this, geomorphologists have a reputation for not engaging philosophical questions regarding their work, particularly role theory, framing language. Recent calls critical physical geography present significant opportunities geographers to engage that often go unasked, unanswered, in Earth sciences. Here discuss what might bring...
Abstract The granting of rights to the Whanganui River in 2017 emerged as an outcome Tribunal hearings relating breaches Treaty Waitangi, signed between Māori chiefs and British Crown 1840. As this expression a river having legal personhood with reflects distinctively perspective upon systems, it offers prospect for new era sociocultural approaches management Aotearoa New Zealand. Using case study, paper explores prospective geomorphic meanings rights. asks, “What role can geomorphology play...
It is easy to talk of improving river condition. more difficult pin down exactly what this means. Emerging from ecology, the concept health presented an attempt provide a broad framework for freshwater management incorporating both natural and human values. Initially criticised as subjective unscientific, was nevertheless mainstreamed through being rendered quantifiable. Tracing (re)definition holistic but hazy ethic environmental care prescriptive indicators intervention, I examine how...
Abstract Urban stream environments have been significantly altered through processes of colonisation and urbanisation. In Te Whanganui‐a‐Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, there is growing interest in peeling back layers the city to reconnect with waterways. More‐than‐human geographies can play a critical role contributing these efforts, guiding understandings what it means restore live alongside urban streams. our case study Waimapihi Stream, we explore one community's ideas practices...
Understanding how and why the world’s coastlines are changing is a pressing international concern in context of rising sea levels, increased climatic variability intensifying coastal development. Medium to long-term records change rare worldwide often limited individual beach compartments. This study presents 70-year (1940–2010) aerial imagery record compare decadal changes shoreline position across four high-energy west coast beaches near Auckland, New Zealand/Aotearoa: Whatipu, Karekare,...
Abstract The fair and effective governance of freshwater is an increasingly prominent issue in New Zealand. Emerging from a complex cultural, economic biophysical narratives, geographies are multiple, varied acknowledged as worthy interdisciplinary scrutiny. In this commentary, we reflect on series generative spaces that – group postgraduate geographers (plus supporting staff) created to engage with the multiplicity meanings both within beyond academy. Through evolving epistemic‐political...
Abstract Aotearoa New Zealand has shifted towards more collaborative decision‐making for freshwater in recent years, as national and local authorities seek new ways of working with communities. While the potential benefits collaboration are well established, messiness processes can challenge institutional imperatives to develop formally justified, implementable plans. This paper explores a collaboration‐first attempt, ‘Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora: Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1’,...