Resilience
The Institute of Sustainable Development defines socio-ecological resilience as “…the ability of an individual or system to combat adversity, deal with difficulties and otherwise bounce back and progress”. To this, […]
Category Archives: Community environmental restoration
Common Ground?
Who or what is ‘the community’? It’s another one of those terms that seems to be a catch-all for ‘everybody else’. I’ll also confess to frequent use of community without […]
He Tangata, he tangata, he tangata – the people, the people, the people
Wetlands are often referred as the barometer catchment health, but their function as barometer of the health of the people is often overlooked (or frankly, just ignored). The biennial National […]
Research Snapshot #2
Over a few short weeks in September last year, nearly 300 NZ community groups responded to an email questionnaire. Two main themes were explored – the scope and nature of […]
Finding local solutions
The Waikato Biodiversity Forum Day, this time in Taupo, provides me with yet more thought provoking perspectives on what community groups do and why. Their words strengthen, confirm and add […]
Seed – Flower – Fruit
An almost overwhelming number of dialogues underway from government agencies to volunteers are exploring the overlay between community groups, science-based tools and data generation. If the ‘seeds’ are the groups […]
Celebrating the ‘grassroots’
A couple of weeks back, I attended the Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust’s conference – Celebrating 25 years of restoring habitat, sharing knowledge, corporate sponsorship by Mainland and protecting one of the […]
Measurement in #Art & #Science
I’ve spent a long time pondering the notion of measurement through the lenses of both art and science. As artist in residence at the Centre for Book and Paper Arts […]
Diffusion
Recently I decided to enter a competition which required summarising the nuts and bolts of my PhD into a 3 minute presentation with a single fixed slide. No fancy props, […]
Research Snapshot #1
Who knew that there are more than 500 community groups actively restoring degraded landscapes across New Zealand? The PhD research began a year ago and what I outline here is […]
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