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This thesis addresses the loss of urban open space resulting from increasing demand for residential floor space within a limited supply of urban land. Demand for floor space is being driven by a number of factors – falling household size (meaning a need for more one- and two-person dwellings and a demand for more floor space per person); a growth in multi-generational households (meaning a need for homes with more than three bedrooms); the trend towards bigger homes; and steady population growth in New Zealand’s main urban centres, especially Auckland.
SJP_Executive Summary of Thesis
The New Zealand Centre for Sustainable Cities and Landcare Research is pleased to post this, Wn ChCh Regeneration Book 11
This evidence-based report draws on the collective expertise of over 100 urban researchers, scientists and policy advisors who attended a sustainability workshop in Christchurch in April.
A limited number of printed copies will be available on request
Would you like to know more about disaster recovery? Would you like to hear from people who have worked on earthquake recovery in Kobe, New Orleans, Chile and Haiti?
Lincoln University’s Faculty of Environment, Society and Design invites you to hear from our distinguished guests live or via webcast from the United States:
Ngaire Button, Deputy Mayor, Christchurch City Council.
Gavin Smith: Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Natural Hazards and Disasters (UNC Hazards Centre) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Centre of Excellence – Disasters, Coastal Infrastructure and Emergency Management (DIEM).
Laurie Johnson is a consultant with over 20 years of experience in urban planning and disaster-related management and research following earthquakes in Chile, China, Northridge and Kobe. She has a focus on mitigating hazards and regulating land use in geologically hazardous areas, including earthquake fault zones, and liquefaction and flood-prone areas.
Charles Kelly has over 30 years experience in humanitarian assistance for earthquakes, drought, floods, epidemics, conflict and other emergencies. He has also helped develop the Green Recovery and Reconstruction Toolkit in conjunction with the WWF and Red Cross.
Bruce Glavovic Earthquake Commission Fellow in Natural Hazards Planning focuses on the role of planning in building sustainable, hazard-resilient communities.
Ljubica Mamula-Seadon’s career spans over thirty years in earthquake engineering and recovery, risk management and environmental planning. She currently looks after the Resilience, Recovery, Infrastructure and Welfare programmes at the Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management.
Sandra James is a Community Development Officer, and now manager of Waimakariri District Council’s earthquake Recovery Assistance Centre.
With more speakers to be confirmed…
To register ($85.00 including lunch) visit
http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/resilient-futures
Date: Monday 18th April
Time: 9.00 – 4.00pm
Place: Lincoln University, Stewart 1 (S1)
Please feel free to distribute this invitation widely.
Themes and streams
1. A vision for the future of public health: for projects or work that suggest new ways of working in public health or successful models of intervention.
2. Sustainable communities and environments: for projects or work that suggest ways of sustaining strong communities and safe environments.
3. Diversity: for projects or activities that reflect health development issues for specific communities or groups of people.
More details available on the website
The aim of this report is to provide reflections on research which investigated the synergies between the Natural Sustainable Framework employed in Sweden’s Eco-municipalities with a tangata whenua view of natural sustainability in the urban environment. The research found that there are fundamental connections between the different world views. In the first instance, the overarching high level principles both agree that the ecosystem is governed by natural laws which we cannot change. People can learn about these laws and can change societal laws according to the laws of nature. Sustainable development is about discovering the rules and principles for society where it can have a sustainable relationship with the ecosystem to meet human need….
