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Global Environmental Change and the Politics of Sustainable Consumption in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2009)Consumption has emerged as a pivotal concept in environmental sustainability debates. Since the 1992 Earth Summit, there has been an increasing focus on the role that consumption and consumer lifestyles play in global ... -
The global financial crisis’ impact on short-term performance of IPO: The case study of New Zealand firms’ IPOs
(Macrothink Institute, 2012)The global financial crisis had major effects on the New Zealand (NZ) capital market, financial system and economy. It prompted responses across the full range of the NZ Securities Commission and the NZ Reserve Bank policies, ... -
The global hydrology education resource
(2011)This article is a selective overview of a range of contemporary teaching resources currently available globally for university hydrology educators, with an emphasis on web-based resources. Major governmental and scientific ... -
Global influences and local environments: Forestry and forest conservation in New Zealand, 1850s-1925.
(Edinburgh University Press, 2010)This article examines the multiple factors that shaped the establishment of forest conservation and tree-planting in the colony of New Zealand. It presents a new perspective on forest history in New Zealand from the 1850s ... -
Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West [Book Review]
(Routledge, 2013)This article reviews the book: “Global Islamophobia: Muslims and Moral Panic in the West”, edited by George Morgan and Scott Poynting. -
A Global lake ecological observatory network (GLEON) for synthesising high-frequency sensor data for validation of deterministic ecological models
(Freshwater Biological Association, 2015)A Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON; www.gleon.org) has formed to provide a coordinated response to the need for scientific understanding of lake processes, utilising technological advances available from ... -
The Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON): the evolution of grassroots network science
(ASLO, 2013)Nine years later, with over 380 members from 40 countries, and 50 publications to its credit, GLEON is growing at a rapid pace and pushing the boundaries of the practice of network science. GLEON is really three networks: ... -
Global patterns of insect herbivory in gap and understorey environments, and their implications for woody plant carbon storage
(Wiley, 2018)Insect herbivory is thought to favour carbon allocation to storage in juveniles of shade-tolerant trees. This argument assumes that insect herbivory in the understorey is sufficiently intense as to select for storage; ... -
Global relationships in tree functional traits.
(2022-06-08)Due to massive energetic investments in woody support structures, trees are subject to unique physiological, mechanical, and ecological pressures not experienced by herbaceous plants. Despite a wealth of studies exploring ... -
Global remedies for local needs: Corporate governance and public sector reforms in Fiji
(Emerald, 2009)Purpose – This paper aims to extend the literature on public sector reforms in less-developed countries in the Pacific. It seeks to examine the roles of accounting and control systems in the reforming of two public sector ... -
The Global Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP) for the base of the Holocene Series/Epoch (Quaternary System/Period) in the NGRIP ice core
(International Union of Geological Sciences, 2008-06)The Greenland ice core from NorthGRIP (NGRIP) contains a proxy climate record across the Pleistocene– Holocene boundary of unprecedented clarity and resolution. Analysis of an array of physical and chemical parameters ... -
Global tephra studies: role and importance of the international tephra research group "Commission on Tephrochronology" in its first 60 years
(Copernicus Gesellscharf MBH, 2022-07-12)Tephrochronology is a correlational and age-equivalent dating method whereby practitioners characterize, map, and date tephra (or volcanic ash) layers and use them stratigraphically as connecting and dating tools in the ... -
Global Zero: The new old agenda
(New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2009)The project of abolishing all nuclear weapons has been given fresh impetus but the old questions remain. Having regard to the manifold problems of definition and verification, is 'Global Zero' realistic in a world in which ... -
Globalisation and the reconstruction of the literate child
(University of Waikato, 2002)In New Zealand, the turn from the welfare state since 1984 to a global market driven economy in the early mid 1990s has affected the way that primary curriculum documents have been developed and implemented. Those documents, ... -
Globalisation, Citizenship and the War on Terror (Book Review)
(New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 2008)The Editors of this book have put together a collection of post-modern musings by a clique of old-left academics from the University of Hull on the defects of contemporary democratic societies (like their own) and on the ... -
Globalization and economic geography: the world is curved, not flat
(Oxford University Press, 2008)This paper analyses the argument put that the world is becoming flatter from the perspective of economic geography and spatial economics. In order to do this, we consider the variety of empirical evidence available, much ... -
The Globalization of English: Its Impact on English Language Education in the Tertiary Education Sector in Taiwan
(The University of Waikato, 2007)The overall agenda for the research reported here grew out of semi-structured interviews with senior educational managers from a tertiary educational institution in Taiwan. These managers raised a number of issues, including ... -
Globalization of tephrochronology: new views from Australasia
(Sage, 2008)Tephra (or volcanic ash) studies, once confined largely to volcanic lands, have become increasingly practised in countries far removed from areas of active or recent volcanism – and Australia is no exception. At the ... -
Globalization: Countries, cities and multinationals
(2011)This paper explores the relationship between the size of a country, the size of its cities, and the importance of economies of scale in the modern era of globalization. In order to do this, it integrates three different ... -
Glycemic-aware metrics and oversampling techniques for predicting blood glucose levels using machine learning.
(2019)Techniques using machine learning for short term blood glucose level prediction in patients with Type 1 Diabetes are investigated. This problem is significant for the development of effective artificial pancreas technology ...
