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Beyond the dollar: Carbon farming and its alternatives for Tairāwhiti Māori landowners

Mercer, Leo (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

This research explores landowner preferences for various land use options suitable for Māori land in Te Tairāwhiti, on the East Coast of the North Island of Aotearoa-New Zealand (henceforth Aotearoa). A particular emphasis ...
Storying place: A tok stori about relationalities in Oceanic education and development

de la Torre Parra, Lorena (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

Education and development are intimately connected and highly contested in Oceania, in theory and in practice. Indigenous Oceanic notions and practices of both education and development are fundamentally relational, and ...
Rubbish Justice: A political ecology of Tibar's dumpsite-to-landfill upgrade in Timor-Leste

Woodham, Joanna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

In pursuing significant infrastructural upgrades to solid waste management systems, how do decision-makers balance social safeguarding with wider system improvements? What are the implications for justice, if the people ...
Understanding the impacts of humanitarian Menstrual Health Management for women’s confidence and agency: A case study on the Thai/Burma border

Bardsley, Tessa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Menstrual Health Management (MHM) is a growing focus within global humanitarian and development work. MHM aims to increase women and girls’ ability to care for their menstruating bodies through period products, hygiene ...
Crowdsourcing Neighbourhood Delineations in Wellington, New Zealand

Rickard, Hayden (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Neighbourhoods are important in our everyday lives, but physical deﬁnitions of neighbourhoods are often ambiguous. Oﬃcial representations of neighbourhood boundaries used to present geographic outcomes poorly reﬂect ...
Holocene thinning history of David Glacier, Antarctica

Stutz, Jamey (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The Antarctic Ice Sheet is a significant component of the Earth System, modulating Earth‘s sea level and climate. Present day and projected ice mass losses from Antarctica are of paramount concern to human populations in ...
The significance and impacts of a youth-led empowerment program and youth-led community development interventions in Myanmar

Soe, Thu Maung (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

In Myanmar, youth are traditionally perceived as a less significant segment of the society. Hence, youth development issues and problems around youth have attracted little attention from community members. Youth empowerment ...
The volcanic and magmatic evolution of Tongariro volcano, New Zealand

Pure, Leo (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Detailed mapping studies of Quaternary stratovolcanoes provide critical frameworks for examining the long-term evolution of magmatic systems and volcanic behaviour. For stratovolcanoes that have experienced glaciation, ...
Effect of the Kaikōura Earthquake on Velocity Changes In and Around the Ruptured Region: A Noise Cross-Correlation Approach

Kortink, Megan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Seismic velocity changes before and after large magnitude earthquakes carry information about damage present within the faults in the surrounding region. In this thesis, temporal velocity changes are measured before and ...
Development of an improved ramped pyrolysis method for radiocarbon dating and application to Antarctic sediments

Reeve, Simon (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Archives of the retreat history of the Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum (~20,000 years ago) are preserved in marine sediment cores from around the margins of Antarctica, but accurate dating methods remain ...
You Eat What You Are: The Role of Identities and Socioeconomic Factors in Meat Consumption and Acceptance of Protein Alternatives

McKay-Valentine, Aaron (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The consumption of meat has serious implications for environmental issues. It contributes to carbon emissions, soil degradation, and habitation loss. Meat consumption also has negative impacts on health, and animal ethics. ...
Outlet Glacier and Landscape Evolution of Victoria Land, Antarctica

Whitmore, Ross (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Terrestrial cosmogenic exposure studies are an established and rapidly evolving tool for landscapes in both polar and non-polar regions. This thesis takes a multifaceted approach to utilizing and enhancing terrestrial ...
The Thermal Stability of the Naphthalene Sulfonic Acids Under Geothermal Conditions

Sajkowski, Lucjan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

A primary goal of this thesis was to obtain kinetic data on the breakdown and isomerisation reactions of naphthalene disulfonate (NDS) and naphthalene sulfonate (NSA) compounds under geothermal conditions. A secondary aim ...
Seismic anisotropy and velocity structure in North Island, New Zealand

Zal, Hubert (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis investigates crustal and upper mantle seismic anisotropy, via shear wave splitting (SWS) analysis, across the Hikurangi subduction zone of the North Island, New Zealand. Seismic anisotropy is defined as a ...
The influence of culture on ethnic women's use of microfinance for empowerment in Luang Namtha Province, Laos

Tongnamavong, Souasong (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The empowerment of women is essential but remains challenging globally. It has been supported by microfinance projects, particularly in recent decades across poor countries. Yet the contribution of microfinance to women’s ...
'Ni Una Menos': A women's social movement contesting gender-based violence in Arequipa, Peru

Infantes Abril, Nadia Yris (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Ni Una Menos (NUM) is a social movement that since 2015 has spread through Latin America as a response to continuing problems of femicides and gender-based violence. NUM challenges gender power relations embedded in the ...
New Zealand Aid and Dairy Development in Sri Lanka

Edwards, Jasmine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

New Zealand’s aid investment in dairy development is seen, on the one hand, as a means to improve economic, health and food security issues in developing countries. Dairy development, further, is linked to New Zealand’s ...
Crystal-specific insights from rhyolite eruptive deposits into volatile element transfer in the magmatic system below Taupō volcano

Sharpe, Max (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Knowledge on the chemical pathways of volatiles in large silicic magmatic systems, from the parental mantle-derived mafic magmas to their more evolved silicic derivatives, is central to understanding a range of topics from ...
Indo-Fijian Fishing Communities: Relationships with Taukei in Coastal Fisheries

Reddy, Chinnamma (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

In the Pacific, customary marine tenure-ship and management has been practised for centuries. Community based marine resource management (CBMRM) initiatives have seen governments, local communities and non-government ...
Toward Inclusive and Equitable Education for All: Lessons from the experiences of New Zealand refugee background university students

Willette, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The ability of education to transform individuals' lives, and by extension those of their communities and societies, is well documented. As such, education is at the heart of the United Nations’ (2015) Sustainable Development ...