Research Projects

Key Research Areas

• Sustainable urban systems
  • How do cities use energy and materials?
  • Is it important to know this?
  • What are indicators of sustainable development?
    
    
• Sustainable primary production
  • What is the environmental impact of New Zealand agriculture?
  • How large is our ecological footprint?
    
    
• Ecosystem services
  • What is the value of New Zealand's ecosystem services?
  • What is the most appropriate design for ecosystem services markets?
  • How can western ecological and traditional Maori knowledge be used to enhance ecosystem services?
    
    
• Climate change
  • Is New Zealand's infrastructure vulnerable?
  • What are the social/economic impacts?
    
    
• Afforestation and the NZ Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
  
  
• PhD Research Projects:
  
  
  • SPICOSA project - Integrated Coastal Zone Management
    
    
  • Accounting for Sustainability in the Malaysian Tourism Industry - Theory, Methods and Applications
    
    
  • Valuing the Ecosystem Services Provided by the Natural Capital of Soils- A Systems Modelling Approach
    
    
  • A Complex Systems Study of the Implications of Anthropogenic Perturbations of the Global Biogeochemical Cycles.
    
    
  • Modelling the New Zealand Exergy System