Browse
Recent Submissions
Now showing 1 - 10 of 98
- ItemFrom Precarious Work to Sustainable Livelihoods: Introduction to the Volume(Routledge, 2023-10-05) Carr SC; Hodgetts DJ; Hopner V; Young M; Carr SC; Hopner V; Hodgetts DJ; Young MThis volume further anchors often abstracted, global ideas like “universal decent work” within local situations, everyday work practices, and lived experiences. Relatedly, a historical strength of I/O psychology has been its focus on the diversity of sociocultural values and norms in the workplace, including at national, organizational, and individual levels (for a review). This chapter builds on, but also constructively away from, those foundations. Specifically, this chapter—like the contributions that follow—adds to these sociocultural considerations. We do so by including diversities associated with the various socioeconomic situations of different groups that are omnipresent at the hard edges of the wage, work security, and wellbeing spectra. Finally, this chapter and book take a deep dive into “who” has been systematically excluded from decent work in the past and how they might be systemically included in our collective and sustainable futures.
- ItemTelehealth at home: Co-designing a smart home telehealth system(IOS Press B V, 2021-04-29) Hunter I; Elers P; Lockhart C; Guesgen H; Whiddett D; Singh A; Maeder AJ; Higa C; van den Berg MEL; Claire GIncreasing life expectancy and rates of chronic conditions place increasing demands on aged care health and support services. One response preferred by older adults and seen as cost effective is aging in place, whereby older people remain in their own homes and avoid aged residential care. For this to take place, it is crucial that older people maintain effective relationships with support networks and that older adults and these networks have adequate information to support patient centred health and wellness care at home. This study explored how smart home telehealth, a form of telehealth where health care is provided at a distance using smart home digital technology (sensors), could assist older people to age in place and enhance their health and wellbeing. It was a two-phase project, preceded by a workshop with experts:1) 41 interviews with older adults and their informal support networks, seven focus groups with 44 health providers working with older adults, which informed 2) a pilot implementation of a co-designed telehealth system, addressing key barriers identified in Phase 1. The system used low cost, easily accessible, and commercially available sensors, transferring information via email and/or text messaging. It was successfully piloted with five older adults and twelve of their respective support networks for six months, who reported an increased feeling of security and improved interpersonal communication. The findings indicate that smart home telehealth could assist aging in place, and the study provides insights into successful co-design of smart home telehealth services at scale that could be implemented and deployed in contexts wider than aged care.
- ItemBuilding Urban Resilience for Coastal Urban Communities: The Surprise of Tsunamis with Consideration of Human Factors(Routledge, 2024-05-31) Fathianpour A; Jelodar MB; Evans B; Wilkinson S; Toivonen S; Heinonen S; Verma I; Castaño-Rosa R; Wilkinson SFrequent and intense multi-hazard events are occurring more frequently, making it crucial to prepare in advance and build resilience. Tsunamis, which are massive waves triggered by earthquakes or volcanic eruptions, are particularly devastating and pose significant risks to coastal areas and human life. Therefore, it is essential to be well-prepared for such events. Once the appropriate response to tsunamis is determined, it becomes important to anticipate different scenarios and take proactive measures. The study of evacuation process resilience is considered vital for effective disaster management, with current research and practice placing significant emphasis on the use of simulation models to evaluate tsunami responses. This chapter focuses on the development of an evacuation simulation tool known as MSEM (Micro-Simulation Evacuation Model), which aims to assess the resilience of the evacuation process by considering different evacuation scenarios in the case of tsunami risk. The tool provides insights into long-term planning and suggests improvements for infrastructure and land use. By analysing the simulation outputs, such as survival rates, indicating the number of people who would be safe when the tsunami reaches the shore, the tool helps identify the resiliency level of a city in the face of tsunamis. Napier City, New Zealand, which is vulnerable to various natural hazards, including liquefaction, earthquakes, flooding, volcanoes, and tsunamis, has been chosen as the case study. Based on the city's spatial characteristics and built environment, recommendations are made regarding land use planning and infrastructure upgrades to boost the resiliency level. MSEM can assist decision-makers underscore the need to enhance the transportation system to accommodate mass evacuations effectively. Additionally, it emphasises the importance of educating individuals on the optimal course of action to take during such situations.
- ItemConnecting Forecast and Warning: A Partnership Between Communicators and Scientists(Springer Nature Switzerland AG on behalf of the Met Office, 2022-06-21) Anderson CL; Rovins J; Johnston DM; Lang W; Golding B; Mills B; Kaltenberger R; Chasco J; Pagano TC; Middleham R; Nairn J; Golding BIn this chapter, we examine the ways that warning providers connect and collaborate with knowledge sources to produce effective warnings. We first look at the range of actors who produce warnings in the public and private sectors, the sources of information they draw on to comprehend the nature of the hazard, its impacts and the implications for those exposed and the process of drawing that information together to produce a warning. We consider the wide range of experts who connect hazard data with impact data to create tools for assessing the impacts of predicted hazards on people, buildings, infrastructure and business. Then we look at the diverse ways in which these tools need to take account of the way their outputs will feed into warnings and of the nature of partnerships that can facilitate this. The chapter includes examples of impact prediction in sport, health impacts of wildfires in Australia, a framework for impact prediction in New Zealand, and communication of impacts through social media in the UK.
- ItemWater Supply and Ancient Society in the Lake Balkhash Basin: Runoff Variability along the Historical Silk Road(Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019-08-15) Panyushkina IP; Macklin MG; Toonen WHJ; Meko DM; Yang LE; Bork H-R; Fang X; Mischke SExpansion of agricultural practices from the Fertile Crescent to China during the mid and late Holocene are believed to have shaped the early network of Silk Road routes and possibly regulated the dynamics of trade and exchange in the urban oases along the Silk Road throughout its existence. While the impacts of climate change on the Silk Road are more or less documented for the medieval period, they remain poorly understood for early history of the Silk Road, especially in Central Asia. We analyze hydroclimatic proxies derived from fluvial stratigraphy, geochronology, and tree-ring records that acted on various time scales in the Lake Balkhash Basin to learn how changes in water supply could have influenced the early farmers in the Semirechye region of southern Kazakhstan. Our approach aims to identify short-term and long-term variability of regional runoff and to compare the hydrological data with cultural dynamics coupled with the archaeological settlement pattern and agricultural production. The reconstructed runoff variability underscore the contribution of winter precipitation driven by the interaction between the Arctic oscillation and the Siberian High-Pressure System, to Central Asian river discharge. We show that Saka people of the Iron Age employed extensive ravine agriculture on the alluvial fans of the Tian Shan piedmont, where floodwater farming peaked between 400 BC and 200 BC. The early Silk Road farmers on the alluvial fans favored periods of reduced flood flows, river stability and glacier retreat in the Tian Shan Mountains. Moreover, they were able to apply simple flow control structures to lead water across the fan surface. It is very unlikely that changes in water supply ever significantly constricted agricultural expansion in this region.
- Item"Feeding people's beliefs": Mass media representations of Māori and criminality(Routledge, 2023-07-03) Barnes AM; McCreanor T; Cunneen C; Deckert A; Porter A; Tauri J; Webb RThis chapter examines media constructions of crime and criminalization, and the associated social harms. With a focus on Māori, it explores links between media narratives and how the other is socially constructed as criminal, promoting an entire ethnic group as suspect, to be feared and in need of surveillance. Media are a key pathway through which regimes of representation are enacted and society is polarized such that one group (law-abiding, deserving) requires protection from the criminal violent other. Racism and colonial practices surface, and the ‘threatened’ dominant group enacts a range of measures, including policies of crime control that can be violent in nature. We argue that, in pursuit of equity, justice, and sustainable social relations, media narratives must be challenged and transformed.
- ItemThe Role of Science, Technology, and Innovation for Transforming Food Systems in Asia(Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2023-01-02) Moughan PJ; Chamovitz DA; Ayyappan S; Tanticharoen M; Lal K; Kim YH; von Braun J; Afsana K; Fresco LO; Hassan MHAThis chapter focusses on the role of science, technology and innovation (STI) in transforming the food systems of Asia and the Pacific to achieve long-term environmentally sustainable food and nutritional security (FNS). A “whole of systems” approach is required to address the issues, and that work is urgently needed to define ‘healthy’ diets for different regions, societies and cultures. Emphasis should shift from the provision of calories to the supply of balanced patterns of all essential nutrients, and the ‘holistic’ properties of foods should be recognised. The chapter identifies countries and regions, within Asia, considered to be at particularly high risk for future food insecurity. Systems analysis should be applied across the agricultural and food sectors of these countries to identify the actual technical and other impediments to FNS. It is envisaged that the results from such an analysis would be used to formulate a ‘blueprint’ for agricultural and food STI in Asia. Overarching recommendations are the establishment of a trans-national funding mechanism for the entire region, focussing on targeted interdisciplinary STI, and the establishment of regional centres of excellence for research, education and extension, focussing on the identified key areas of opportunity. It was concluded that there is an urgent need for investment and action.
- ItemThe potential of gender (and intersectional) equality indices: the case of Aotearoa New Zealand’s public service(Edward Elgar Publishing Limited in association with the International Labour Office, 2024-06-07) Parker J; Donnelly N; Sayers J; Loga P; Paea S; Rönnmar M; Hayter SThe COVID-19 pandemic has impacted in a multi-faceted and gendered manner on the labour market in most countries. In Aotearoa New Zealand, high-level gender indices (GIs) have broadly captured this impact, helping to inform sectoral policy reform. However, these indices seldom capture more qualitative, nuanced and connected aspects of (in)equity despite increasing labour market and workplace diversification, and more scholarly attention on how these inequities are created, perpetuated or nuanced. The need for finer-grain analysis of women’s diversity encouraged a transdisciplinary study of working women in several public service agencies in New Zealand. Experts, employees and managers in the sector participated in in-depth interviews to help generate institution-specific gender indices which can be used alongside ‘conventional’ quantitative measures to closely assess workplace (in)equities. This study thus extends the conceptual parameters of GIs applied at national levels; provides a framework of equity considerations and (emergent) indicators for inclusion in organizational-level equity policy development; and briefly assesses meso-level equity indices with respect to the gender-responsive/accommodating/transformative or ‘gender-inclusive’ framework used throughout this volume.
- Item“The Times They Are A-Changin’" but “The Song Remains the Same”: Climate Change Narratives from the Coromandel Peninsula, Aotearoa New Zealand(Berghahn Books, 2022-02-11) Schneider P; Glavovic B; Hoffman SM; Eriksen TH; Mendes P
- ItemContexts, Forms and Outcomes of Mathematics Teacher Collaboration(Springer, 2024) Esteley C; Huang R; Mellone M; Soto G; Eden R; Coles A; Borko H; Potari DThis open access book is the product of an international study which offers a state-of-the-art summary of mathematics teacher collaboration with respect to theory, research, practice, and policy.
