Browsing by Author "Barrett, Patrick"

• A case for examining the social context of frailty in later life 

  Barrett, Patrick (Blackwell Publishing, 2006)

  This paper makes a case for examining late life frailty as a dynamic social phenomenon. There is increasing interest in the issue of late life frailty from biomedical researchers, but less so from researchers using the ...

• The living environments of community-dwelling older people who become frail: another look at the living standards of older New Zealanders survey. 

  Barrett, Patrick; Twitchin, Stephen; Kletchko, Sharon; Ryan, Faye (Ministry of Social Development, 2006)

  Efforts to support older people who live in the community and who become frail will be enhanced by a better appreciation of the shared characteristics of this group. This paper reports indicative findings from a re-analysis ...

  

• Social inclusion through ageing-in-place with care? 

  Barrett, Patrick; Hale, Beatrice; Gauld, Robin (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

  The onset of ill-health and frailty in later life, within the context of the policy of ageing-in-place, is increasingly being responded to through the provision of home care. In the philosophy of ageing-in-place, the home ...

  

• Towards the 20 minute city 

  Mackness, Kate; White, Iain; Barrett, Patrick (2021)

  THE IDEA OF a 20-minute city came out of Portland, Oregon, in the early 2010s. Melbourne added its own twist on the concept later in the decade. With the emergence of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the buzz around 20-minute ...

  

• Complex uncertainty: Long-term risk management decision making in New Zealand local government 

  Robson, David (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  New Zealand’s natural hazardscape has long posed risks for government owned water infrastructure and its stakeholder communities. In the context of climate change, there are predictions that the frequency and intensity of ...

  

• Discourses of climate change adaptation policy in Thailand: Implications for sustainable development and sufficiency economy 

  Tongdethsri, Tidavadee (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  The significant threat of climate change to sustainable development is most acute in developing countries, which are predicted to experience higher occurrences of wildfires, more extreme storm events, rising sea-level and ...

  

• Exposing the hidden politics of housing provision in Aotearoa New Zealand: The complex governance landscape of new housing in Hamilton 

  Dodd, Francesca Jane (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  Delivery of sufficient affordable, quality new housing in New Zealand has been high on the political agenda since the 1990s and, despite considerable government activity and policy attention, achieving that goal remains ...

  

• An evaluation of planning frameworks for sustainable community development in the context of the Peacocke project, Hamilton 

  Edwards, Katherine (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  Numerous planning frameworks have emerged over the past decades to inform decisions about the design and development of sustainable communities, raising questions about which framework to use within which context. Different ...

  

• Ko Waipā te awa 

  Kukutai, Josephine (The University of Waikato, 2020)

  This thesis examines the experience of the Ngāti Maniapoto (‘Maniapoto’) iwi in the development and implementation of their river settlement legislation, the Ngā Wai o Maniapoto (Waipā River) Act 2012 (the 'Act’) . The ...

  

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