Authors: Mark Harvey, Dermott McMeel, Becca Wood, Mark Jackson, Maria O’Connor Abstract “As we sit here at this table and try to think about what we are going to talk to you about we just can’t quite come up with something because we keep being distracted by the feeling of these uncomfortable seats, our bad […]
Authors: Gina Mohi, Paul White and Diane Bradshaw Abstract Iwi/Māori have a long association with New Zealand’s natural environment that is based on knowledge that has built up over time through centuries of interaction with the natural world. This includes the use of natural resources within many iwi/Māori communities. Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) also includes […]
Our research showed that these customary shell fishing beds were sometimes contaminated with human viruses, and that shellfish would be unsafe to eat at these times. Therefore consumption of these shellfish could be a threat to the health of the iwi. As a result of our research findings, from 2007 the local and regional councils and public health unit improved the efficiency of the sewage discharge processes and also the water quality in the area. It is now generally safe for the iwi to gather shellfish from these areas.
Author: DonnaWillard-Moore Abstract John Sterman observes in his book Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World, (2000) that: “The environmental sustainability problem has proven difficult to solve. The modern environmental movement has attempted to solve the problem in a large variety of ways. But little progress has been made, as shown by […]
Author: Cecelia Cmielewski Remote Interventions describes works produced in rural and remote parts of Australia that have community, scientific and technological aspects to them. Australia may be one of the most urbanised and coast-dwelling populations in the world. However, our imagined and projected national and self-images also tend towards the expanses of the interior and […]
Feb 1st–3rd, 2013 Developing the culture to create a sustainable civilisation Following is a list of abstracts selected for the SCANZ 2013 3rd nature wānanga-symposium. It is not quite complete yet. This page also has registration information and an outline of the wānanga schedule. Mātauranga Māori (for international viewers) refers to traditional […]
Author: Lenka Dolanova Abstract KRA – Kravín Rural Arts is a project-in-development (since 2009), an art residency center located in a former cowhouse in a small Czech village. Based in an agricultural area, we are forced to work with “indigenous” people, the “locals”. The necessity to confront various “cultures”, or rather to coexist with them, is […]
Authors: Elise Smith and Anne Scott Abstract The Nga Motu Marine Reserve Society is investigating the distribution of penguins on the Taranaki coast, and monitoring the activity of known populations. We encourage everyone to contribute information, and join us in raising awareness about penguins. The Society uses the MAIN Trust NZ Geographic Information System for […]
Authors: Tamsin Kerr and Ross Annels Abstract Western society in the past considered thinking as a thing for expert brains to do inside an ivory tower, separated from the creativity of the hand and the ecology of every place. Environmental art begins to address this balance by making an outside haptic materiality matter, by beginning […]
GNS has been collecting and compiling Māori terms on hydrology, geology and geothermal phenomena to, amongst other things, explore the contribution that traditional indigenous knowledge can make to the research outcomes and model development by identifying the cultural significance of groundwater and the associated cultural links with surface water (Tipa and Tierney, 2003, Boast, 1991)….
To support te reo Māori and mātauranga Māori within the SMART portal web mapping and catalogue application, we evaluate a multi-language concept to incorporate semantic web methodologies to map and connect English and Māori terms and descriptions of presented natural phenomena as well as metadata and descriptive text within the application (Lutz et al., 2009).