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Item Attitudes towards Inclusion of Sustainability Characteristics within New Zealand’s Eating and Activity Guidelines by Professionals in the Agriculture, Environment and Health Sectors(MDPI, 13/03/2019) Jones R; Burlingame B; Wham C; Brown, R; Mackay, S; Eyles, HBackground: Globally, adverse health and environmental changes are occurring associated with changes in the food and nutrition system. The FAO has called for sustainable diets which are “protective of biodiversity and ecosystems, culturally acceptable, accessible, affordable, nutritionally adequate, safe and healthy; while optimising natural and human resources”. The inclusion of sustainability characteristics in New Zealand’s Eating and Activity Guidelines (EAGs) has become compelling. This study aimed to evaluate the agreement for inclusion of sustainability characteristics within the guidelines among sectoral professionals. Methods: Agriculture, environment and health sector professionals were invited to complete an online survey to establish agreement to sustainability characteristics using a 20 item Likert scale. Participant gender, age and education level were determined. Results: Overall, 298 (65% female) respondents completed the survey (37%, 22% and 41% from the agriculture, environment and health sectors respectively). Two thirds (66%) of respondents were over 35 years and 90% had a tertiary education. Most (76%) respondents disagreed New Zealand’s current food system is sustainable; health (77%), environment (78%) sectors had greater disagreement than agriculture (35%) (p ≤ 0.001). 73% of respondents agreed that sustainability characteristics should be included in the guidelines; health (90%) and environment (84%) sectors agreed more than agriculture (48.2%) (p ≤ 0.001). Most respondents tended to agree with the inclusion of the 15 individual sustainability characteristics in the guidelines except “Purchase and support for organic food produce” was low (35%). Agreement for nine sustainability characteristics was higher among the health and environment sectors versus the agricultural sector (p < 0.05) whereas sector agreement for “diet diversity”, “recommended serves of dairy products”, “sustainable seafood consumption”, “reduction of food waste” and “sustainable lifestyle behaviours” was unanimous (p > 0.05). Conclusion: Professionals from the agriculture, environment and health sectors largely support the inclusion of sustainability characteristics in the New Zealand’s EAGs.Item Proceedings of the 7th New Zealand Built Environment Research Symposium(School of Built Environment, Massey University, 17/02/2022) Shahzad, WM; Rasheed, E; Rotimi, JItem Plastic Packaging in the Marine Environment(Department of Conservation, 1989) McNeill, JItem Management of unwanted agricultural chemicals(Environmental Science, University of Auckland, 1992) McNeill, J; Brodnax, RItem Qualitative evaluations of new scientific concepts: Accurate, fast, easy and inexpensive(ANZMAC, 19/02/2016) Feetham, PM; Wright, MJ; Teagle, DH; Comrie, MA; Sinha, A; Cadeaux, J; Bucic, TEvidence confirming the robustness of qualitative methodologies in marketing research is scarce. Instead, quantitative methodologies dominate publications in marketing journals, a stark contrast to other academic disciplines where qualitative research is the dominant approach. This research reports a case where the findings of an independent qualitative study were clearly supported by subsequent quantitative research. Applied in the context of a new technological science, the qualitative phase treated climate engineering techniques as brands with core concepts and a range of related memory associations. Attributes associated with climate engineering were elicited using Kellys’ Repertory Grid or choosing from a pre-determined list of 30 attributes during 30 depth interviews. The qualitative results illustrated an overall negative reaction to the four concepts tested with solar reflection techniques viewed more negatively than carbon dioxide removal techniques. Large online surveys across two countries gave strikingly similar results, verifying the robustness of the qualitative study.Item Can we get more out of Net-Promoter Data?(ANZMAC, 19/02/2016) Mecredy, P; Feetham, PM; Wright, MJ; Sinha, A; Cadeaux, J; Bucic, TNet-Promoter Score (NPS), a loyalty measure, is used extensively in commercial market research due to its simplicity of use and ease of understanding, despite criticism of the metric. Given the widespread use of NPS commercially, it is important to understand whether applying alternative loyalty measures has any advantages over Net-Promoter. This paper aims to demonstrate whether a likelihood mean and Polarization Index, φ, provide different results to Net-Promoter. These three measures were applied to data collected from an on-line survey of 1,818 participants who evaluated brands in a service industry. The findings show that all three measures provided similar variations in loyalty across brands and regions. The likelihood mean and NPS are strongly correlated, indicating that no one measure is more superior to the other at measuring loyalty within a service industry in New Zealand. However, the Polarization Index appears to assess loyalty differently to the likelihood mean and NPS.Item Collaborative activity in an online bilingual exchange: Social presence in an emergent collaborative community(Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), 19/10/2015) Walker, UGThe paper explores the discursive construction of social presence in an international online collaboration of distributed language learners from different cultural, institutional and linguistic backgrounds. It utilizes and extends Galley et al.’s (2014) ‘community indicators’ as an explanatory framework relatively new to the second language acquisition context. Tentative findings from this research in progress highlight the prominent role of discursively constructed social presence as a building block in constructing and maintaining cohesive social ties. It is argued that collaborative floor and playful conduct are key contributors to cohesion and the development of community.Item The Development of a Decision-Support System (DSS) for Selecting Best-Fit Zero-Carbon Building Materials; The Cases of Iran and New Zealand Building Industries(18/02/2022) Araghi Hashemi, A; Rasheed, E; Vishnu, PA zero-carbon building is a green and environmental-friendly structure designed and functioning with the primary objective of eliminating or reducing carbon dioxide, thereby positively impacting natural resources and climate change. The current worldwide focus on sustainability and decreasing carbon emissions has significant consequences for the construction sector. The purpose of this qualitative study is to determine the factors that influence the decision making involved in material choice for zero-carbon buildings by senior construction professionals. In addition, this study seeks to provide mechanisms to overcome the barriers for stakeholders to meet the sustainability challenges in the industry. The research investigates decision-making changes between conventional and sustainable construction and provides a pathway for zero-carbon construction. It will be essential to develop insights into responsible sourcing as an area of growing industry relevance and compare the influence of these factors between New Zealand and Iran. Comparing these two countries with quite different building materials and construction practices could show some interesting emergent properties that both countries could benefit from. The culture of using these materials and the reasons behind their use can advance the body of knowledge in the construction sector. The scope of this proposal is sufficiently well-defined to make the project feasible in the time allocated. The findings of this study will be beneficial to society, considering that zero-carbon buildings play an important role in the move to a more sustainable future. The greater demand for greenhouses for individuals and companies justifies more effective constructional approaches. Thus, government, businesses, and individuals that apply the recommended approach derived from the results of this study will be able to sustain the environment better. The New Zealand and Iranian construction industry stakeholders, will be guided on what materials should be used to improve resources efficiency. For researchers, the study provides insight into critical areas that have received limited attention in zero-carbon construction and renewable construction materials.Item An introductory course with a humanitarian engineering context(University of Calgary, 18/06/2017) Shekar, A; Tunnicliffe, MC; Brennan, R; Edstrom, K; Hugo, R; Rosslof, J; Songer, R; Spooner, DThe Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Design Challenge is an excellent example of how universities from across the globe allow students to engage with humanitarian engineering. Massey University has been utilising the EWB Design Challenge as a framework to introduce engineering practice to first year students, and this has led to our teams winning multiple regional and international prizes. This article shares our experience of the design and teaching of this first year course and provides engineering educators with a successful example of how students learn about engineering practice in product, process, and system building, as well as their personal and interpersonal skills. We highlight how, by using a humanitarian engineering context, we embed CDIO thinking. Our case study illustrates how we project manage this process using Stage-Gate™; support students to conduct reflective practice by using logbooks; include practising engineers as consultants; and provide detailed assessment guidelines and rubric examples to guide students through the myriad challenges during engineering practice. This case study shows that the implementation of the EWB Design Challenge has been successful in providing a useful framework to introduce engineering practice. It is particularly effective in exposing students to a number of ethically driven social competencies required for the global engineer. It is hoped that by sharing our experience of operating this course that engineering faculty may take on-board some of our learning and assessment practices to improve the offering of an introductory design project at their institutionItem The applications of building information modelling for the lifecycle performance of green buildings: a systematic literature review(Massey University, 17/02/2022) Peng, W; Feng, Z
