Planning Research

Completed Doctorates | Completed Masters | Current Doctoral Research | Current Masterate Research | Staff Publications

We are also proud of our graduate student researchers. Many have received financial support from external organisations. External agencies interested in funding graduate students should contact Associate Professor Lynda Johnston (phone +64 7 856-2889 or email lyndaj@waikato.ac.nz ).

Recently Completed Doctoral Planning/Policy-Related Theses

• Jay, Mairi: A cultural ecology of biodiversity loss
• Rodgers-Hayden,Tee: Deconstructing the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
• Begg, Margaret: Dairy farm women in the Waikato 1946-1996: Fifty years of social and structural change
• Holzapfel, Rupert: Modeling sustainable ecotourism development, Coromandel Peninsula
• Rennie, Hamish: A geography of marine farming rights in New Zealand: Some rubbings of patterns on the face of the sea
• Ryks, John: Land/Seascapes of exclusion: Social order on the coastal margins
• Zaman, Begum: Women as industrial labour: An enquiry into economic and social consequences of growth of garments manufacturing in Bangladesh

Masters Planning/Policy-Related Theses Completed 2000-2006 include

• Hoeberechts, Veronica: Maritime oil spill preparedness and planning
• Worthy, Diana: Northland dairy farmers and clean streams
• Zainal-Aziz, Sharif: Community response to coastal transformation
• Abercrombie, Ross: Private land, public ditch: A comparison of common property theory and landcare groups in the Waikato, New Zealand.
• Briggs, Craig: Public access to eastern Coromandel beaches: Developing an indicator.
• Des Forges, Sandra: Employing a two-way feedback process in environmental policy making: Project Watershed as a case study
• Gilson, Chris: CCTV and spatial policing in Hamilton, New Zealand
• Gower, Paul: Adopting Government standards at The Nest, a Salvation Army Social Service Agency in Hamilton
• Kingi, Tracey: Reconstructing coastal space: Communities and consultation
• James, Susanna: Cruise tourism in Fiordland, New Zealand
• Lancaster, Karyn: Managing consultation: A case study into experts' approaches to consultation with Tangata Whenua.
• Lewis, Katrina: Muddy waters: An environmental history for the Ohura River and catchment.
• Lynagh, Fiona: Protecting the parks: Buffer zone development in Bohol, Philippines.
• Marshall, Samuel: Community, quotas and co-management: A case study of fishery management in the Chatham Islands.
• Palmer, Katherine: ‘Learning by doing’: Ecotourism as community-based development in Tenganan, Bali, Indonesia
• Porou, Tina: Ngati Turangitukua and the Resource Management Act.
• Smith, Sheridan: The development of the HGMP: An example of good environmental policy development?
• Wilkins, Duane: Representing public health databases using Geographical information Systems

Current Doctoral Thesis Research on Planning/Policy-Related Topics

• Kindon, Sara: Politics and practices of participatory community video within human geographic research

A selection of recent planning-related publications by Waikato Geography staff

• Brabyn, L. and Gower, P. (2003) Mapping accessibility to general practitioners. In O.A. Khan, Geographic Information Systems and Health Applications. Hershey, PA: Idea Group, pp.290-308.
• Bedford, R.D. (2002) “Recent developments in population movement and growth in the Western Bay of Plenty) (Updated Version). Briefing Paper for Smartgrowth Workshop, 29 May. Hamilton: University of Waikato, 36pp.
• Bedford, R., Bedford, C., Ho, E. and Lidgard, J. (2002) “The globalisation of international migration in New Zealand: reflections on a debate”. Briefing Paper No. 8 prepared for the seminar “New Directions: New Settlers. Responding to Contemporary Migration Challenges” 10-11 April, Wellington.
• Bedford, R.D., Ho, E.S. and Lidgard, J.M. (2002) “International migration in New Zealand: context, components and policy issues”. Journal of Population Research and NZ Population Review, Joint Special Issue, September, p.39-65.
• Bedford, R. and Pool, I. (2002) “Flirting with Zelinsky in Aoteraroa/New Zealand: A Maori mobility transition”. Briefing Paper No. 4 prepared for the seminar “New Directions: New Settlers. Responding to Contemporary Migration Challenges” 10-11 April, Wellington.
• Blackstock, H., Chalmers, L. and Moon, V. (2002) Mapping Hazards in Hamilton. Hamilton: Hamilton City Council and University of Waikato. 29pp
• Ho, E. (2002) “Doing business in New Zealand: the experiences of Chinese immigrant entrepreneurs”. Briefing Paper No. 1 prepared for the seminar “New Directions: New Settlers. Responding to Contemporary Migration Challenges”. 10-11 April, Wellington.
• Ho, E. (2002) “Multi-local residence, transnational networks: Chinese ‘astronaut’ families in New Zealand”. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 11, no. 1, p.145-164.
• James, S.J. and H.G. Rennie 2002 ‘Right of way: Cruise tourism in Fiordland, New Zealand’ pp. 1-6 in W.G. Croy (ed.) International Tourism Students Conference Proceedings. School of Tourism and Hospitality, Waiariki Institute of Technology, Rotorua.
• Jay, M. (2002) “New Zealand’s biodiversity strategy and protection of native bush by private landowners – implications for adult environmental education”. Paper presented at the Environmental Education Conference Linking People, Policy and Practice, 17-19 January 2002, University of Waikato, Hamilton.
• Jay, M. (2002) “Protection of native bush by Waikato dairy farmers: a cultural perspective”. In P. Holland, F. Stephenson and A. Wearing (Eds) 2001, Geography – A Spatial Odyssey. Proceedings of the Third Joint Conference of the New Zealand Geographical Society and the Institute of Australian Geographers. Hamilton: New Zealand Geographical Society, p.379-385.
• Jay, M. and Morad, M. (2002) Cultural outlooks and the global quest for sustainable environmental management. Geography, Vol. 87, no.4, p.331-335
• Lidgard, J. and McLeay, C. (2002) “Researching characteristics of people moving into and out of the Western Bay of Plenty and Tauranga districts: some methodological issues”. Population Studies Centre Discussion Paper No. 41. Hamilton: University of Waikato.
• McLeay, C. (2002) “Contextualising Tauranga: towards an understanding of the ‘Consumer City’ and Smartgrowth”. Briefing Paper No. 2 prepared for the seminar “New Directions: New Settlers. Responding to Contemporary Migration Challenges”. 10-11 April, Wellington.
• Bedford, R., Ho, E. and Lidgard, J. (2001) “Immigration policy and New Zealand’s development into the 21st Century: review and speculation”. Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, Vol. 10, no. 3-4, p.585-616.
• Bell, D., Binnie, J., Holliday, R., Longhurst, R. & Peace, R. (2001) Pleasure Zones: Bodies, Cities, Spaces. New York: Syracuse University Press.
• Brabyn, L. and Wilkins, D. (2001) “Mapping health events - a comparison of approaches”. Health Informatics Journal, Vol. 7, p.201-213
• Jay, M. (2001) Review of: P. Selman. Environmental Planning: the conservation and development of biophysical resources. Local Environment, Vol.6, No.4, p.497-499.
• Tress, B., Tress, G., Decamps, H. and d’Hauteserre, A-M. (2001) “Bridging human and natural sciences in landscape research”. Landscape and Urban Planning, Vol. 57, p.137-141
• Rennie, H.G., J. Thomson, T. Tutua-Nathan (2000) Factors Facilitating and Inhibiting Section 33 Transfers to Iwi, Hamilton, Univ. of Waikato and Eclectic Energy.