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Strategic Planning for Airport Capacity: Safeguarding Operations at New Zealand’s Major Airports

Kane, Stephanie (Thesis, Master of Planning, 2011)

International airports provide a wealth of benefits to surrounding areas and serve as connection points between countries. Demand for air travel and transport has increased rapidly since international civil aviation came ...
Are we learning from past practice: The potential for follow-up as an environmental management tool in New Zealand

Rendall, Chris (Thesis, Master of Planning, 2011)

All development has the potential to cause adverse effects to the environment. Worldwide, environmental concern regarding these effects has significantly increased over the past forty years. This has led to the implementation ...
Improving freight efficiency within the ‘last mile’: A Case study of Wellington’s Central Business District

Allen, Brigitte (Thesis, Master of Planning, 2012)

Freight movement within the Central Business District has generally been overlooked in both academic planning literature and urban plans. There is little understanding of the nature of urban freight activity despite the ...
Conservation Planning for the North Island Brown Kiwi (Apteryx mantelli): An investigation into the role of district plans to facilitate landscape scale conservation of the North Island brown kiwi in Northland, New Zealand

Quarente, Sabrina Danielle (Thesis, Master of Planning, 2012)

Impacts resulting from human activity have lead to a dramatic decline of all species of kiwi (Apteryx spp.). Today, approximately 8,000 North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) remain in Northland. Many of these kiwi are ...
Waste Management Planning in Rarotonga: Issues and Opportunities

Driesen, Lodewijk Martinus Adrianus (Thesis, Master of Planning, 2012)

Issues surrounding environmental legislation and policy lead to unsustainable outcomes in waste management and practice in Rarotonga, Cook Islands. As a result local people’s lives are affected in a range of different ways. ...
Decision-making for Living in Flood-prone Areas

Simes, Rosanne (Thesis, Master of Planning, 2012)

On the 26th April 2006, a small community was flooded by the overflow of water from the Silver Stream on the Taieri flood-plain, Otago, New Zealand. The flood event has raised questions as to why people live in these ...
Planning for New Zealand towns: The value of Cittaslow as an alternative approach to sustainable development

Semmens, Jaimee Maree (Thesis, Master of Planning, 2012)

Cittaslow is an Italian inspired global network of towns that collectively resist globalisation and mainstream corporate centered development. Councils and communities in these towns cooperatively adopt an alternative ...
Planning for the Effective Reuse of Products in the New Zealand Building Industry - A Dunedin Case Study

Letendre, Elodie (Thesis, Master of Planning, 2013)

Modern society generates a growing waste production, associated with natural non-renewable resources depletion. Notably, the building and construction sectors are believed to consume approximately half of the planet’s ...
Evaluation and Crime Prevention: An Investigation of Evaluation and Monitoring of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Initiatives in New Zealand

Dennis, Stephen (Thesis, Master of Planning, 2013)

Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) has become an increasingly popular tool for local authorities to adopt in their effort to reduce and prevent crime. Scholars have drawn attention to the shortcomings ...