title: Specification and interpretation issues in behavioural models used for environmental assessment

authors: Hess, Stephane

subjects: transport

abstract: While the environmental damage caused by transport is the direct result of engineering design – the use of mechanical vehicles largely propelled by fossil fuels – it is human behaviour that influences the way transport is used and the infrastructure that is provided. There has been a tendency in the past to seek technological solutions to environmental problems, and there is clearly a continuing role for policies that foster this approach. But more recently, over the past 20 years or so, there has been a recognition that changing the ways transport is used, as well as the physical nature of the hardware, is at least as important. In both cases, however, there is a need to understand the responses of society to alternative policies. This entails, at one level, insights into the likely reaction of people to alternative policies – basically good forecasting models. At another level, that of project and policy evaluation, there is a need to understand the values that society puts on environmental improvement.

text: Specification and interpretation issues in behavioural models used for environmental assessment While the environmental damage caused by transport is the direct result of engineering design – the use of mechanical vehicles largely propelled by fossil fuels – it is human behaviour that influences the way transport is used and the infrastructure that is provided. There has been a tendency in the past to seek technological solutions to environmental problems, and there is clearly a continuing role for policies that foster this approach. But more recently, over the past 20 years or so, there has been a recognition that changing the ways transport is used, as well as the physical nature of the hardware, is at least as important. In both cases, however, there is a need to understand the responses of society to alternative policies. This entails, at one level, insights into the likely reaction of people to alternative policies – basically good forecasting models. At another level, that of project and policy evaluation, there is a need to understand the values that society puts on environmental improvement.

year: 2010

title: Morphological evolution of creek networks in 10 restored coastal wetlands in the UK

authors: Chirol, Clementine

subjects: Science & Technology

abstract: Coastal wetlands provide crucial ecosystem services including flood protection and carbon storage, but are being lost rapidly worldwide to the combined effects of sea-level rise, erosion and coastal urbanisation. Managed Realignment (MR) aims to mitigate for these losses by restoring reclaimed land to tidal influence. Data of creek evolution is critical to assess the performance of design strategies and improve design and implementation practices. This data descriptor provides a dataset of the horizontal morphological evolution of creek systems from various initial conditions in 10 MR schemes across the UK. Using a semi-automated workflow, morphological creek parameters were extracted from 52 lidar datasets at 1 m horizontal resolution spanning 2 to 20 years post-breach. This constitutes the most comprehensive systematic monitoring of MR creek morphology to date. The dataset will assist future MR design and provide baseline morphological information for ecological and biogeochemical surveying.

text: Morphological evolution of creek networks in 10 restored coastal wetlands in the UK Coastal wetlands provide crucial ecosystem services including flood protection and carbon storage, but are being lost rapidly worldwide to the combined effects of sea-level rise, erosion and coastal urbanisation. Managed Realignment (MR) aims to mitigate for these losses by restoring reclaimed land to tidal influence. Data of creek evolution is critical to assess the performance of design strategies and improve design and implementation practices. This data descriptor provides a dataset of the horizontal morphological evolution of creek systems from various initial conditions in 10 MR schemes across the UK. Using a semi-automated workflow, morphological creek parameters were extracted from 52 lidar datasets at 1 m horizontal resolution spanning 2 to 20 years post-breach. This constitutes the most comprehensive systematic monitoring of MR creek morphology to date. The dataset will assist future MR design and provide baseline morphological information for ecological and biogeochemical surveying.

year: 2022

title: The reform of Maori land tenure and the quest for sustainability in New Zealand

authors: Jay, Grace Mairi M.

subjects: geography

abstract: Many of the countries of the Pacific region (including Australia and New Zealand) have a British colonial legacy. This history has had wide implications for the development of the region: economically, politically and socially. The cadastral (property based) systems in these countries have been influenced by British land conveyance and registration practices, and by colonial history. To date, Australia and new Zealand are still trying to resolve land tenure and information problems which are steeped in historical and ethnic dimensions. Land is the single most important factor for Maori development in New Zealand, and has great implications for the development of this country.

text: The reform of Maori land tenure and the quest for sustainability in New Zealand Many of the countries of the Pacific region (including Australia and New Zealand) have a British colonial legacy. This history has had wide implications for the development of the region: economically, politically and socially. The cadastral (property based) systems in these countries have been influenced by British land conveyance and registration practices, and by colonial history. To date, Australia and new Zealand are still trying to resolve land tenure and information problems which are steeped in historical and ethnic dimensions. Land is the single most important factor for Maori development in New Zealand, and has great implications for the development of this country.

year: 1997