title: Civil strategies for future generations

authors: Daya-Winterbottom, Trevor

abstract: This paper will examine the barriers to implementing climate justice from a New Zealand perspective. In particular, the paper will focus on the governance arrangements for implementing the Paris Agreement, administrative justice and the potential for activist NGO strategies following the majority Supreme Court decision in Buller Coal, and the role of the next generation in reconfiguring how we conceive environmental law and institutions in the remainder of this century.
These themes will be interrogated through a critical analysis of deliberate political choice in framing climate change response legislation, the need to guarantee administrative justice through effective judicial remedies, the differing perceptions of the next generation about how to address climate change articulated via the most recent report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, emerging new generational ways of holding government and institutions to account advanced by the Sarah Thomson judicial review proceedings before the High Court, and the vision for a new political agenda to confront the challenge of climate change imagined by Max Harris.

text: Civil strategies for future generations This paper will examine the barriers to implementing climate justice from a New Zealand perspective. In particular, the paper will focus on the governance arrangements for implementing the Paris Agreement, administrative justice and the potential for activist NGO strategies following the majority Supreme Court decision in Buller Coal, and the role of the next generation in reconfiguring how we conceive environmental law and institutions in the remainder of this century.
These themes will be interrogated through a critical analysis of deliberate political choice in framing climate change response legislation, the need to guarantee administrative justice through effective judicial remedies, the differing perceptions of the next generation about how to address climate change articulated via the most recent report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, emerging new generational ways of holding government and institutions to account advanced by the Sarah Thomson judicial review proceedings before the High Court, and the vision for a new political agenda to confront the challenge of climate change imagined by Max Harris.

year: 2018

title: Control-theoretical stress-testing for cross-platform compliance

authors: McCarthy, Harry George Andrew

subjects: LQR

abstract: Modern systems are required more and more to be able to provide performance reliability qualities for not just one system but cross platform as well. Stress testing applications allow for performance testing of a system, however, when applied across different platforms the performance of the application is not a one to one comparison. This thesis introduces the idea of applying control theory to provide consistent resource percentage utilisation when stress testing cross platform. Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) control, Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) control and a PID Assisted LQR control were utilised as three control system in this thesis. While the PID controller provided the best results across multiple platforms, its inability to control all the variables in the system along with multiple different state
objectives (CPU and memory) leads to the need for a system model approach. LQR controllers provide this model based approach but at the cost of being unable to adapt across different platforms and to unpredictability in the system. Finally, a combined approach PID Assisted LQR control. PID Assisted LQR control gave the best of both PID and LQR control approach and had improvements in the case of where the system was most unpredictable but lacked any significant improvements in areas where the model gave an accurate representation of the system.

text: Control-theoretical stress-testing for cross-platform compliance Modern systems are required more and more to be able to provide performance reliability qualities for not just one system but cross platform as well. Stress testing applications allow for performance testing of a system, however, when applied across different platforms the performance of the application is not a one to one comparison. This thesis introduces the idea of applying control theory to provide consistent resource percentage utilisation when stress testing cross platform. Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) control, Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) control and a PID Assisted LQR control were utilised as three control system in this thesis. While the PID controller provided the best results across multiple platforms, its inability to control all the variables in the system along with multiple different state
objectives (CPU and memory) leads to the need for a system model approach. LQR controllers provide this model based approach but at the cost of being unable to adapt across different platforms and to unpredictability in the system. Finally, a combined approach PID Assisted LQR control. PID Assisted LQR control gave the best of both PID and LQR control approach and had improvements in the case of where the system was most unpredictable but lacked any significant improvements in areas where the model gave an accurate representation of the system.

year: 2020

title: Māori and indigenous views on R and R: Resistance and Resilience

authors: Penehira, Mera

subjects: resilience

abstract: This article explores the development of Mäori and Indigenous frameworks of resilience, considering the impact of engaging with largely State- led notions of resilience on Mäori development. We highlight the closely linked notion of resistance, asserting the necessity of a fi rm political analysis from Indigenous researchers engaged in this discourse. One of the Indigenous criticisms of resilience theories is that by defi nition they assume an acceptance of responsibility for our position as disadvantaged individuals. That is, by examining and developing theories and models of resilience we buy into the idea that this is the way it is and we need simply to get better at bouncing back and being resilient. Resistance, however, represents an approach of collective fi ght- back, exposing the inequitable distribution of power, and actively opposing negative social, political and economic infl uences. This article represents a Mäori Indigenous political response to the resilience discourse.

text: Māori and indigenous views on R and R: Resistance and Resilience This article explores the development of Mäori and Indigenous frameworks of resilience, considering the impact of engaging with largely State- led notions of resilience on Mäori development. We highlight the closely linked notion of resistance, asserting the necessity of a fi rm political analysis from Indigenous researchers engaged in this discourse. One of the Indigenous criticisms of resilience theories is that by defi nition they assume an acceptance of responsibility for our position as disadvantaged individuals. That is, by examining and developing theories and models of resilience we buy into the idea that this is the way it is and we need simply to get better at bouncing back and being resilient. Resistance, however, represents an approach of collective fi ght- back, exposing the inequitable distribution of power, and actively opposing negative social, political and economic infl uences. This article represents a Mäori Indigenous political response to the resilience discourse.

year: 2014