In 1895 Minnie Dean became the only New Zealand woman to receive the death penalty. In the Invercargill Supreme Court she was found guilty of the murder of Dorothy Edith Carter, a child Minnie had recently adopted, who was ...

This research builds upon and utilises an emerging field of food and development theory – food sovereignty – as it discusses possibilities for an alternative food system, where the production, distribution and consumption ...

Sports and community centres are rarely found in New Zealand. The small amount of multi-sports centres that do exist have been inadequately designed; they have little sense of identity and successful expressions of vitality. ...

Hybridisation can result in new hybrid lineages, parental species extinctions, the transfer of adaptations, or the merging of parental lineages. Subsequently hybridisation has important implications for the species involved. ...

This thesis provides an account of research into a family of novel hybrid P,E ligands containing an o-xylene backbone. A methodology for the synthesis of these ligands has been developed, and their coordination behaviour ...

Wetlands are areas where lands transition to water bodies. Because of this special geomorphological setting, wetlands play important roles in flood control, nutrient retention, and water storage. In New Zealand, less than ...

Temporal and spatial variability of stream discharge is directly related to variation in local climate, and this in turn is related to both regional and global atmospheric circulation and climate change. The relationship ...

Habitat fragmentation and the resulting decline in biodiversity through the loss of habitat are thought to be the main threat to insect extinctions. According to the trophic level hypothesis, habitat fragmentation affects ...

The genesis of this paper rests in two separate concerns about the role for legislation in New Zealand. Those concerns are, respectively, the idea that government makes “too much law” (“hyperlexis”), and whether government ...