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This book examines significant issues in geography teaching and
learning from the perspectives of an international network of
academic geographers and postgraduate students. Drawing on
classroom experiences and research in a wide variety of educational
settings, the authors describe conceptually interesting and
practical applications for enhancing student learning through
inquiry, problem-based learning, field study, online collaboration,
and other highly engaging forms of pedagogy. Other articles focus
on approaches for improving the experiences of distance learners,
strategies for enhancing the employability of geography students,
and preparing students to engage ethical issues in the discipline.
An international audience of educators will find much of value
through the use of comparative examples, literature reviews
encompassing research in multiple national contexts, and an
underlying awareness of the diversity of practices in higher
education internationally. This book is a collection of articles
previously published in two special issues of the Journal of
Geography in Higher Education.
This book critically assesses Christchurch, New Zealand as an
evolving post-earthquake city. It examines the impact of the
2010-13 Canterbury earthquake sequence, employing a chronological
structure to consider 'damage and displacement', 'recovery and
renewal' and 'the city in transition'. It offers a framework for
understanding the multiple experiences and realities of
post-earthquake recovery. It details how the rebuilding of the city
has occurred and examines what has arisen in the context of an
unprecedented opportunity to refashion land uses and social
experience from the ground up. A recurring tension is observed
between the desire and tendency of some to reproduce previous urban
orthodoxies and the experimental efforts of others to fashion new
cultures of progressive place-making and attention to the
more-than-human city. The book offers several lessons for
understanding disaster recovery in cities. It illuminates the
opportunities disasters create for both the reassertion of the
familiar and the emergence of the new; highlights the divergence of
lived experience during recovery; and considers the extent to which
a post-disaster city is prepared for likely climate futures. The
book will be valuable reading for critical disaster researchers as
well as geographers, sociologists, urban planners and policy makers
interested in disaster recovery.
This book examines significant issues in geography teaching and
learning from the perspectives of an international network of
academic geographers and postgraduate students. Drawing on
classroom experiences and research in a wide variety of educational
settings, the authors describe conceptually interesting and
practical applications for enhancing student learning through
inquiry, problem-based learning, field study, online collaboration,
and other highly engaging forms of pedagogy. Other articles focus
on approaches for improving the experiences of distance learners,
strategies for enhancing the employability of geography students,
and preparing students to engage ethical issues in the discipline.
An international audience of educators will find much of value
through the use of comparative examples, literature reviews
encompassing research in multiple national contexts, and an
underlying awareness of the diversity of practices in higher
education internationally. This book is a collection of articles
previously published in two special issues of the Journal of
Geography in Higher Education.
The traditional image of New Zealand is one of verdant landscapes
with sheep grazing on lush green pastures. Yet this landscape is
almost entirely an artificial creation. As Britain became
increasingly reliant on its overseas territories for supplies of
food and raw material, so all over the Empire indigenous plants
were replaced with English grasses to provide the worked up
products of pasture - meat, butter, cheese, wool, and hides. In New
Zealand this process was carried to an extreme, with forest cleared
and swamps drained. How, why and with what consequences did the
transformation of New Zealand into these empires of grass occur?
'Seeds of Empire' provides both an exciting appraisal of New
Zealand's environmental history and a long overdue exploration of
the significance of grass in the processes of sowing empire.
Making a New Land presents an interdisciplinary perspective on one
of the most rapid and extensive transformations in human history:
that which followed Maori and then European colonization of New
Zealand's temperate islands. This is a new edition of Environmental
Histories of New Zealand, first published in 2002, brimming with
new content and fresh insights into the causes and nature of this
transformation, and the new landscapes and places that it produced.
Unusually among environmental histories, this book provides a
comprehensive analysis of change, focusing on international as well
as local contexts. Its 19 chapters are organized in five broadly
chronological parts: Encounters, Colonising, Wild Places,
Modernising, and Contemporary Perspectives. These are framed by an
editorial introduction and a reflective epilogue. The book is well
illustrated with photographs, maps, cartoons and other graphics.
For over a century, New Zealand has built its economy through a
series of commodity-based booms - from wood and wool to beef and
butter. Now the country faces new challenges. By doubling down on
dairy farms, aren't New Zealanders destroying the clean rivers and
natural reputation upon which the country's primary exports (and
tourism) are based? And in a world where value is increasingly
rooted in capital- and technology-intensive industries, can New
Zealand really sustain its high living standards by growing grass?
This book takes readers out on to farms, orchards and vineyards,
and inside the offices and factories of processors and exporters,
to show how New Zealanders are answering these challenges by
building The New Biological Economy. From Icebreaker to Mr Apple,
from milk and merino to wine and tourism, from high-end Berlin
restaurants to the shelves of Sainsbury's, innovative companies are
creating high-value, unique products, rooted in particular places,
and making pathways to the niche markets where they can realise
that value. The New Biological Economy poses key questions. Do
dairy and tourism have a sustainable future? Can the primary
industries keep growing without destroying the natural world? Does
the future of New Zealand lie in high tech or in the innovations of
a land-based economy?
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