Associate Professor Ralph Chapman

Director Graduate Programme, Environmental Studies

Victoria University of Wellington

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Academic Research Projects:

Climate change policy; Sustainable transport and urban form; Housing and the environment (heating and health; housing and energy use; Warm Homes for Elderly NZers); Environmental governance; Comparative Environmental Policy and Performance (Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand).

Contract Research Projects:

Climate adaptation frameworks; OECD Environmental Performance Review of Australia (June-August 2006) [member of international review team]

International Networks:

Part of OECD environmental performance review teams (to date: Netherlands, Sweden, USA, Australia).

KEY PUBLICATIONS

Barry, M. and Chapman, R.
Distributed Small-Scale Wind in New Zealand: Advantages, Barriers and Policy Support Instruments
Energy Policy (2009, in press)
Download or view online
Howden-Chapman, P., Viggers, H., Chapman, R., O’Dea, D. Free, S., and O’Sullivan, K.
Warm homes: drivers of the demand for heating in the residential sector in New Zealand
Energy Policy (2009, in press)
Download or view online
Chapman, R., Howden-Chapman, P., Viggers, H., O'Dea, D. and Kennedy, M.
Retrofitting houses with insulation: a cost-benefit analysis of a randomized community trial
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 63; pp.271-277 (2009)
Download or view online
Chapman, R.
Transitioning to low-carbon urban form and transport in New Zealand
Political Science, 60, 1, June, pp. 89-98 (2008)
Howden-Chapman, P., Pierse, N., Nicholls, S., Gillespie-Bennett, J., Cunningham, M., Phipps, R., Boulic, M., Fjallstrom, P., Free, S., Chapman, R., Lloyd, B., Viggers, H., Wickens, K., Shields, D., Baker, M., Cunningham, C., Woodward, A., Bullen, C. & Crane, J.
Effects of improved home heating on asthma in community dwelling children: randomised controlled trial
British Medical Journal, September (2008)
Boulic M, Fjällström P, Phipps R, Cunningham M, Cleland D, Pierse N, Howden-Chapman, P, Chapman, R, Viggers, R, Pollard, A. and the Housing, Heating, and Health Team
Cold Homes in New Zealand – Does increasing the heater capacity improve the indoor climate?
Clean Air and Environmental Quality Journal, 42, 3, 24-28. (2008)
McIndoe, G., Chapman, R., McDonald, C., Holden, G., Howden-Chapman, P., Bray Sharpin, A
The Value of Urban Design. The economic, environmental and social benefits of urban design. Wellington
Ministry for the Environment. ISBN 0-478-25919-0 (2005)
Preval, N., Chapman, R., Pierse, N., Howden-Chapman, P.
‘Evaluating Energy, Health and Carbon Co-benefits from Improved Domestic Space Heating: A Randomised Community Trial.
Energy Policy. (2010, in press)
Chapman, R., Howden-Chapman, P. and Wilson, N. ‘Estimating the health cost of leaky homes’, in Howden-Chapman, P., Bennett, J. and Siebers, R
Do damp and mould matter? The Health Impacts of Leaky Homes. Wellington
Roger Steele Publishing (2009)
Download or view online
Keall, M., Chapman, R., Howden-Chapman, P.
‘Changes in New Zealand transport mode choices over time by size of city’
in Brebbia, C.A. (Ed), (2009) WIT Transactions on the Built Environment: Urban Transport XV, Southampton: WIT Press.
Barry, M. and Chapman, R.
‘Distributed Small-Scale Wind in New Zealand: Advantages, Barriers and Policy Support Instruments’
Energy Policy, 37, pp.3358-3369 (2009)
Howden-Chapman, P., Viggers, H., Chapman, R., O’Dea, D. Free, S., and O’Sullivan, K
‘Warm homes: drivers of the demand for heating in the residential sector in New Zealand’
Energy Policy, pp. 3387-3399. (2009)
Chapman, R., Howden-Chapman, P., O’Dea, D. Viggers, H. and Kennedy, M
‘Retrofitting houses with insulation: a cost-benefit analysis of a randomized community trial’
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 63, pp.271-277. (2009)
Chapman, R
‘Transitioning to low-carbon urban form and transport in New Zealand’
Political Science 60, 1, June, pp. 89-98. (2008)
McIndoe, G., Chapman, R., McDonald, C., Holden, G., Howden-Chapman, P., Bray Sharpin, A
The Value of Urban Design. The economic, environmental and social benefits of urban design.
Wellington Ministry for the Environment. ISBN 0-478-25919-0 (2005)
Download or view online