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Last updated: 18 August, 2010
  
18th Conference Proceedings: Anniversary Conference -50 Years

The Proceedings are divided into eleven sections:

Author Article Pages     
Forer, P & P Perry Foreword
Lidstone, J Keynote Address: Geography, Environmental Education and Disaster Mitigation: Great Expectations

13-23

(Top of Page) Welfare, Justice and Health
Barnett, JR & P Barnett Doctors and the State: The Proletarianisation of Primary Care in New Zealand?

24-26

Brown, M Time-Space and Recent Historical Geographies of Aids

26

Burridge, S Deaf Justice: Foreshadowing a State Legitimation Crisis

27

Chiu, E Self-Determination, Doing Good and Social Justice: Wading the Murky Shoals of Multi-Centre Ethics Approval

27

Coyle, P Targeting of Health Care: Assistance for those in Most Need?

27

Dodson, J Social Justice, Ethics and Research with Maori

28-30

Friesen, W Yesterday's planning for Tomorrow's Schools?: Educational Access in Central Auckland

30-34

Gleeson, B The Nature of Justice

34-37

Kearns, RA Justice and the Relations of Research: Can Geography be 'Culturally Safe'?

37-40

Kearsley, GW Changing Health Care Preferences in the South Island of New Zealand

40

Law, R Life in the Bermuda Triangle: the Geography of Community Mental Health Care in Dunedin

41-43

Law, R Equity, AIDS, and Social Service Provision: Making a Community in West Hollywood, California

43-46

McCracken, K Approaches to Needs Assessment in Community Services Planning

46-53

Mansvelt, J Working at Leisure: Exploring the Later Years

53-57

Morad, M & L Morad Medical Geography of Psychiatric Care: A Case Study of the Waikato Region

57-62

Moran, W Restructuring, Geography and Democracy in New Zealand

62-68

Petrie, S Deinstitutionalisation, Labour and Justice

68

Wall, M Social Justice and Conceptualising Difference in Aotearoa/New Zealand

69-71

Wiles, J OH DOCTOR, I'M IN TROUBLE! Gender, Justice and New Zealand's Changing Health-Care System

71

Wood, BE The Geopolitics of Choice: Locating School Reputation

72-75

(Top of Page) Maori Geographies
Gale, L Defining a 'Mäori Geography': Issues Explained, and One Personal Opinion on What It Could Consist Of

76-80

Johns, H & M Brewin Maori Geography - a Place to Stand

80-84

Keremeneta, R Te Ononga A Te Tangata Ki Te Whenua (The Genealogy of People and Place)

84

Morrison, K The Ideology of Conservation: A Bicultural Issue in Aotearoa/New Zealand

84-86

Murton, B A Fractured Land: Constructions of Knowledge about Land in Colonial New Zealand / Aotearoa

86-89

Tutua-Nathan, T Maori Environmental Resource Management Processes: Recognition of a Maori Geography

89-91

Cloher, DU Maori Themes and Geographical Neglect

91-93

Wall, M The Identity Question: the Quintessential Maori and Once Were Warriors

93-96

(Top of Page) Physical Geography and Environmental Processes
Allan, J Shoreline Development - Lake Dunstan, South Island, New Zealand

97

Andrews, S & K Parnell Sediment Transport and Retention in Waipareira Bay and Wetland, Waitemata Harbour, New Zealand

97

Boak, EH & PD Osborne Characteristics and Effects of Vessel Generated Waves, Torpedo Bay, Auckland

98-102

Brookes, HD Marine Disposal of Dredgings in the Hauraki Gulf under RMA - Can It Be Prohibited?

102

Butler, ERT An Investigation of Swash-Phase Relationships on Lakeshores

102

Crozier, MJ & NJ Preston A Landform Model for Eroding Hill Country

103

Ellison, HJ, S Nichol & T Hume Levels of Turbidity in Nearshore Water of Hawke Bay, New Zealand

103

Fowler, A Change in the frequency of heavy rainfall events as a possible "fingerprint" of global climate change

103-107

Heap, A & S Nichol Stratigraphic Reconstruction of an Incised-Valley System: Weiti River Estuary, New Zealand

107-108

Nichol, SL & N Osborne Late Quarternary Evolution of Marsden Point Coastal Barrier Complex

108

Osborne, PD, KE Parnell GA Rooker Measurements of Sand Transport in the Swash Zone and Inner Surf Zone of a High Energy Beach

108-112

Pritchard, J, P Osbourne, K Parnell & S Nicholl Sediment Transport Trends, Parengarenga Harbour

112-117

Rooker, GA & PD Osbourne Sand Re-suspension Under High Energy Infragravity Swash, Bethells Beach, New Zealand

117-118

Single, MB & RM Kirk Coastal Change and Human Processes in Tory Channel, Marlborough Sounds

118-121

Soons, JM From Marine Inlet to Lake - The History of Lake Forsyth/Wairewa

122

Spronken-Smith, RA Urban Parks as "Cool Islands"

122-124

Sturman, A Contemporary Research into Mesoscale Weather and Climate of the South Island

125

Todd, D Potential Tsunami Hazard Risk for Christchurch

125-128

Wearing, A Plants and Central Otago Landscapes

128-132

Wearing, A The State of Environmental History in New Zealand Geography

132-136

Williams, G Macrogeomorphology, A Key to the Historical Past, An Opening to the Future

136

Williams, P A 250 KA Record of Glacial and Interglacial Events from the Aurora Cave System, Fiordland, New Zealand

136

Young, F The Origin and Evolution of a New Zealand Barrier Island

137

(Top of Page) Resources, Management and A Contested Environment
Aggett, G A GIS-Based Assessment of Seismic Risk for Wellington City

138

Allan, D, D Ross, K Colhoun & P Holland Landscape Change Over Five Years of an Integrated Pest Management Programme in the South Island High Country

138-144

Cocklin, C, G Blunden, W Moran & W Smith Sustainability and Land-Based Production in Northland, New Zealand

144-145

Cocklin, C & L Burton Water Resources and the Resource Management Act

145

Druce, D Carrying Capacities Inside Mount Cook National Park

145

Erickson, N, J Dixon & S Michaels Managing Natural Hazards in New Zealand: Is the Resource Management Act Making a Difference?

145-146

Fra, U The State of the Environment in Galicia, Spain

146

Froude, V Protecting the Biodiversity of Estuaries: How Useful is the Resource Management Act

146-150

Gale, L Existance Value and Undeveloped Coastal Areas: An Analysis of the Contingent Valuation Method

150-153

Glade, T & M Crozier The Current Status of Land-Slide Information Systems in New Zealand

153-158

Hay, I Economic and Ideological Problematising of New Zealand's Earthquake and War Damage Commission

158-162

Hilton, M & A Memon The New Coastal Management Regime Established by the Resource Management Act (1991) and the New Zealand Coastal Policy Statement: Prospects for Integrated Management

162-165

Jay, M Safeguarding the Life-Supporting Capacity of Ecosystems

165-168

McAuley, I The Changing Role of the State in the Electricity Sector in New Zealand

169

Memon, A & S Horton Environmental Assessment: A Path Towards Sustainable Development?

169

Owens, IF Causes and Safety Planning Implications of the Porter Heights Avalanche Fatality of June 1994

169

Rennie, HG Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity: Progress, Problems and Prospects

170-172

Ryan, RJ, HC Perkins & PJ Devlin Claims-Making and Rhetoric in the Contest Between Conservation and Recreation: The Case of the Wainui Marine Reserve Proposal

173

Weaver, S The Geography of Identity: Uncovering an Eco-Poetics of Sustainability

173

(Top of Page) Feminist Perspectives on Place and Space
Bates, DJ Exploring a Feminist Physical Geography

174

Berg, LD Proclaiming Native Rebels, Affirming European Masculinity

174-178

Billot, J Conceptualising Women's Proactivity within the Urban Environment

178

Brown, S The Influence of Demographic Factors on Child Care Arrangements in Wellington Families

178-182

Cockerton, C Redrawing the Conceputal Boundaries: Tswana Migrant Women Challenge the Ideological Construction of "Woman"

182-185

Fairfax, K Urban Public Spaces as Men's Places?  The Role of Transport in Women Reclaiming Their Urban Environment After Dark

185

Johnston, L Building Bodies

185-188

Longhurst, R Pregnant Minds: Hysterics in the Public Spaces of Rational Man

188-190

Nairn, K Geography Fieldtrips: What a Difference a Place Makes

190-193

Peace, R Misfits: Constructions of Poor Bodies for Policy Purposes

193-195

Penrose, J Essential Constructions?  The "Cultural Bases" of Nationalist Movements

195

Plowman, S Constraints and Opportunities: a Life Course Analysis of Women Information Technology

195-197

Robson, LR Racialised Gendering of the Labour Market: Employment Experiences of Filipino Immigrant Women in the South Waikato

197-199

Seymour-East, B The Teenage Girls' Place in the Urban Environment

199-200

Stephen-Smith, N Family Violence: Effects of Women Survivors' Residential Mobility

200

Wilson, C 'Bimbos' and 'Blondes' in 'Nappy Valley': Reading the Masculine and Feminine Landscapes of Heartland

200-202

Wincapaw, C Finding the Dyke Next Door: The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transsexual Section of the National Capital Freenet as Sites for Lesbian Connection

203

(Top of Page) Migration, Tourism and Global Development
Ateljevic, I International Tourism: The Commodification of Rotorua

204

Bedford, R, J Lidgard & J Young Globalisation and Population Change in New Zealand, 1986-1994

204-207

Bedford, RD & J Young International Migration and the Regions: Diversity and Change

208-211

Bishop, K The Barriers and Distortions to the Communication of Information in the Pacific.  The Case of Health in Western Samoa

211-216

Crotts, JC & GW Kearsley Issues and Opportunities in the Greening of the Tourist Industry

216-219

Campbell, J Pacific Island Vulnerability to Environmental Change

219-222

Garnham, B Alliances and Liaisons in Tourism: Concepts and Implications for New Zealand

222-226

Kearsley, GW Changing Patterns of International Tourism Flows Through New Zealand

226

Kearsley, GW Tourism, Promotion and Economic Development in Dunedin, New Zealand

226

Kearsley, GW & JES Higham Wilderness Perception and its Implications for the Management of the Impacts of International Tourism on Natural Areas in New Zealand

227

Kirby, VG The Changing Place of Heritage

227-232

Kissling, C Air Transport Components in APEC Trade

232-236

Lewis, G Contemporary Migrations in Rural Britain: Some Conceptual Issues

236

Lewis, N Geography and the Origins of the Restructuring Metanarrative

236-242

Lidgard, JM, RD Bedford & ES Ho Situating International Migration within World Systems Analysis: Relevance for Aotearoa/New Zealand

242-247

Overton, J 2020 Vision or Asian Myopia? New Zealand and the Pacific Century

247-250

Perry, PJ Who Underdeveloped Burma - And How?

250

Scheyvens, R Sewing Versus Self-Esteem: Strategies for Women's Development in the Solomon Islands

251-255

Stewart, S Marketing Place: Appropriation and (Re)-Creation of New Zealand's Clean Green Image

255

Storey, D

Realigning Our Focus: The Urban Poor, People's Power and Housing in the Third World

255-258

Van Dierman, P The Economic Role of Jakarta: Past, Present and Future

258-262

Willis, R & P Messerli Comparing New Zealand and Switzerland: Economic Performance in the Light of Industrial Clusters and the Porter Report

262-267

Wurtzburg, SJ Reflections of Pacific Women: The Geography of Contact Narratives

267

(Top of Page) Rural Change and Rural Challenges
Blunden, G & W Moran Sharemilkers and Large Corporate Dairy Farmers

268-273

Campbell, H Crisis in the Farm/Finance Relationship during the 1980s: A Regulationist Analysis of Evidence from Ashburton County

274-277

Campbell, H The Internationalisation of Organic Agriculture

278-281

Coombes, B Whatever Happened to Rural Culture? Towards Responsive Rural Geographies

281-285

Hayward, D, I Cooper, R Le Heron & M Perry Networking, Technological Learning and Co-Operative Regional Development: Experiences and Opportunities in the Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

285-286

King, LJ "Shooting the Hippo": a Geographer's Assessment of a Current Canadian Debate

286

Pomeroy, A Rural Policy Change: International Perspectives

286-290

(Top of Page) People, Housing and the Urban Experience
Austin, PM, F Cram, & RA Kearns The Experience of Home and Neighbourhood of Older People in Auckland

291-294

Austin, PM & J Turner Urban Consolidation and Housing Affordability

294-297

Badcock, B Beyond the Golden Age of Homeownership? The Impact of Labour and Housing Market Adjustment upon Household Wealth in Australia

297

Bowler, S The Shopping Centre as a Consumption Site

298-300

Boyer, T Is Immigration Really Working? The Employment Status of the Taiwanese Community in Auckland

300-305

Burke, T Urban Consolidation: The Australian Experience

306

Croft, A & S Turner Flea Markets - The Visible Face of the Informal Sector in Aotearoa/New Zealand

306-308

Davidson, A Alternative Models of Housing Assistance: Tenure Patterns and Cost-Renting in New Zealand and Sweden

309-313

de Bruin, A & A Depuis Women and Housing

313-314

Depuis, A & d Thorns The Meaning of Home

314

Flenley, J West Meets East in a Japanese Garden

314-316

Grant, A Appropriation of Heritage Creating Meaning and Identity: the ASB Bank in Napier

316-319

Ho, E, S Kim & J Young Chinese and Korean Migrants in Auckland: Perspectives on Employment Prospects among Adolescents

319-322

Johnston, DC Spatial and Temporal Patterns in Mobility: Railway Travel in Canterbury 1880-1961

322

Kearsley, GW Tenure Change, Mortgage Rates and Repossessions in the English Housing Market

322

McAloon, J Family, Property and Inheritance in the Colonial South Island

322-324

McLeay, C The 'Dunedin Sound' - Regional Refrain or Media Noise?

324-326

McLeay, E Housing Networks and the Policy Agenda

326-327

McMurray, S & P Morrison The Rise of the Inner City Apartment Market

327-331

Morrison, P Inner City Housing in Historical Perspective

331

O'Brien, P Broadway Park: Private Estate, Auckland.  Changing Notions of Community in New Zealand

332-334

Press, CJ The Role of Government in Developing the Colonial City: the Case of Wellington 1840-1903

334-338

Thawley, S Infill Housing: Characteristics, Externalities and Social Conflict

338

Wulff, M & C Maher Long Term Private Renters in the Australian Housing Market

338

Yoon, H-K An Ethnogeography of East Asian Immigrants in Auckland

339-341

(Top of Page) Methodology, Techniques and New Perspectives on Geospatial Data
Booth, K Outdoor Recreation Research Methods - Are We Stuck in the 1970s?

342

Cochrane, GR, MA Mongillo & RN Merton Thirty-five Years of Vegetation Mapping with Satellite Remote Sensing

342-349

Gao, J & M Wyness  Use of GIS in Locating Childcare Facilities in Northshore City

349-350

Keast, C An Investigation of GIS Implementation Strategies: A Case Study of Two Pre-Implementation Projects

350

Khawaja, M 1996 Census of Population and Dwellings: An Overview of Questionnaire Contents

350

Lee, AC, RN Merton & LE Harvey Digital Mapping of Heterogeneous Vegetation Communities Using Remotely Sensed Imagery and Geographic Information Systems

350-351

 Little, J The Role of Remote Sensing in the Study of Forested Environments: Prospects and Limitations

351

Merton, RN & GR Cochrane Imaging Spectroscopy: A New Tool for the Physical Sciences

351-358

Mongillo, MA, GR Cochrane & PRL Browne Geothermal Mapping in New Zealand: Looking Back, Looking Forward

358-365

Poulsen, M Sydney's Third Runway: The Usage of GIS in the Environmental Impact Assessment Process

365-368

Simmons, DG, P Forer & M Oberdries Tourism Planning: Can GIS Solve both the Data Management and Communication Challenges?

368-371

Sims, G Data-Structures for Cell Based Climate Modelling

372-376

Watkins, R A Model for Landscape Analysis of an Agrosystem in the Regional Resource Evaluation Project, Northland, New Zealand

376

Winchester, D Maps or Mayhem: The Cartographer's Art

376

Winchester, D An Emerging Hierarchy of Towns: An Animated Cartography

377

(Top of Page) Geography and Education
Arnold, G, R Kearns, M Laituri & R Le Heron Exploring the Politics of Geographical Authorship

378

Boswell, S The Splintering of Student Geographies: Activity Paths and Coping Strategies

378-380

Fastier, M Geography Unit Standards: Changes Resulting from the Consultation Process

381

Forer, P New Geographies of Learning?  Optimising the Universities' Location in Cyberspace

381-383

Milicich, M & M Goldstone Servicing the Masses: The Provision of Intimate Learning Experiences for Undergraduate Classes

384-386

Grundy, KJ The Separation of Humanity from Nature: Evolution and Implications

386-387

Keown, PA Education for Biculturalism and Multiculturalism through Geography

387-390

Macaulay, J & G Connell Social Studies in the New Zealand Curriculum: Likely Implications for Secondary Geography

390-393

Philp, C Images of Our World, and the Role of 'Geographic Knowledge'

394

Roche, MM George Jobberns as a Human Geographer

394-398

Rowland, D

Developing Computer-Based Teaching Materials for Population Studies

398