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Conference abstracts

The 2017 Annual Conference explored the theme, "Tu Kaha: Stand tall. Fronting up with wicked solutions".

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Changing Behaviour

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Lana Assaf MEIANZ

What motivates environmental behaviour change

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Sarah Sandilands

Life cycle-based environmental management of food-related waste in a student dining hall

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Dr Helen Monks MEIANZ CEnvP

Land use zoning response to climate change

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Carly Cushman

Communication and connectedness is key

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Alan Chenoweth FEIANZ CEnvP

Changing our own behaviour: How are the ethics of professionals constructed and perceived?

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Gerrard Albert

Te Awa Tupua: The Whanganui River as a legal person

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Nic Peet
Judy Lawrence

Games and knowledge broking to change decision behaviours

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Te Kawa Robb

Behaviour change starting young

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Strategic Thinking

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Sarah Bray MEIANZ

The evolution of industrial ecology in Australia and designing policy for the future

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Erin Pears MEIANZ

The tension between natural justice and project delivery: Integrating environmental approvals to achieve better outcomes

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Mathew Peel MEIANZ
Dr Stephanie Tomscha

Wetlands for people and place: Developing a blueprint for ecosystem service restoration in wetlands

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Kasey Robb MEIANZ

Cultural water in south-east Australia: the challenges of translation and implementation

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Ilya Berelov
Rebekah Pokura-Ward MEIANZ

The value of community values assessments in transport projects

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Peter Hemphill MEIANZ

Structured decision making in the Great Barrier Reef

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Kevin Roberts MEIANZ

Ensuring good environmental outcomes from major infrastructure projects through an interdisciplinary approach across the project development cycle

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Bryan Jenkins FEIANZ

Making sustainability operational: The application of failure pathways and sustainability strategies

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Carolyn Cameron MEIANZ

SEA: Getting back to basics

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Building Resilience

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Marta Karlik-Neale

Wellington Resilience Strategy: Sustainability, resilience or both?

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Stephanie Brown MEIANZ CEnvP

Implementing change to enhance resilience: Where are the new ways forward?

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Tom Davies MEIANZ

Insurance industry and local government: Collaborating to address insurance affordability and increase community resilience

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Suzanne Little FEIANZ

Phosphorus and Biodynamic Farming

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Simon Liddell

Building resilience on Temaiku Bight, Tarawa, Kiribati

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Communicating science

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Jane Munday

More facts or living the experience?

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Rob Hannaby MEIANZ CEnvP

Another way to look at vehicle emissions

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Jolisa Brooks

Information to impact: Effectively communicating science to save the oceans

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Gyan de Silva
Kristy McGregor

Exploring stock access: perspectives on framing the problem and solutions

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Commercial sector involvement for good environmental outcomes

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Geoff Ensor

Mayday, mayday, mayday: Calling all businesses

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Laurie Foon

Size doesn't matter

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Samantha Jones
Suzanne Orme MEIANZ

Sustainability through collaboration: A controlled cross-sector study of collaboration for sustainability in Australian manufacturing

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Michael Bidwell

Commercial sector involvement responding to climate change

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Bryan Jenkins FEIANZ

Audited self management: A more effective approach to improve compliance

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Anne Spicer

The consequences of an innovative water quality policy

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Dr Mark Bellingham MEIANZ CEnvP

Climate change and biodiversity mitigation through rural subdivision

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Dr Mark Breitfuss MEIANZ CEnvP

A tale of two critters: commercial sector solutions for threatened species management

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Cyrielle Durand

The Forest Stewardship Council: An example of how the private sector can manage natural resources in a responsible way

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Effective monitoring & measuring

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Saphira Rekker

Do environmental rating schemes capture climate goals?

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Maurice Marquardt MEIANZ

Local leadership targeting global issues

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Chanjief Chandrakumar

An absolute sustainability assessment method for estimating environmental impact reduction targets: A case study of the New Zealand agricultural sector

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Dr Scott Rawlings

State and benefit: Emerging trends in environmental reporting

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Jamie Steer MEIANZ

Biodiversity offsetting in New Zealand: How should we measure their effectiveness?

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Dr Ian Boothroyd CEnvP

Preloading for the future: Establishing mitigation success for intra and inter-generational expectations

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Ann Neill

Priceless heritage assets? Finding common ground between economics and science in the measurement of the value in transport projects

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Fiona Davies MEIANZ

Are we monitoring in the dark?

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Claire Gronow FEIANZ CEnvP

Issues and challenges for addressing uncertainty in IA practice

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Teaming Up

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David Greig MEIANZ CEnvP

Waipoua: A place with its own management style

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Susanne Rawson

Isolated heritage and the environment: Preservation collaborations

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Dr Colin Pardoe

Aboriginal heritage as ecological proxy in south-eastern Australia: A Barapa wetland case study

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Daniela Cox

Shark Finning in the Galapagos Marine Reserve

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Kate Nolan

Seed banking by design: The New Zealand Indigenous flora seed bank

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Nick Pattison

Agents of change

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James Skurupey MEIANZ CEnvP

Knowledge sharing innovations: Breaking down commercial sensitivities and fostering environmental awareness and compliance

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Helen Lane

A tipping point for action

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Chris Ferkins MEIANZ

Teaming up with communities-of-place: The solution to ecological achievement

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Stephen Gee