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    Applying Materiality Judgements
    (SSRN, 2023-11-10) Botica Redmayne N; Ehalaiye D; Ahmad F; Edeigba J; Laswad F
    This is a research report prepared for the New Zealand Accounting Standards Board (NZASB) of the External Reporting Board (XRB) on how the International Accounting Standards Board's (IASB's) requirements and guidance on materiality are applied to improve disclosures in general purpose financial statements.
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    The New Zealand Workplace Barometer: Psychosocial safety climate and worker health – findings from the 2019 NZ Workplace Barometer.
    (2020-08-03) Tappin D; Forsyth D; Gardner D; Ashby L; Bentley T; Bone K; Catley B; D’Souza N; Blackwood K; Port Z; Brougham D; Cordier J
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    Tackling plastic pollution in the commercial fishing industry (fin-fish supply chain). Case Study: Moana New Zealand
    (Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2020-09-10) Croft F; Farrelly T
    This report provides an examines the ways in which plastics are used throughout the daily fin fish operations (fin fish) at Moana FisheriesNew Zealand. It explores current global, regional and national policies, as well as current initiatives that are seeking to minimise marine plastic pollution, and how these may be implemented in this context. This study also acknowledges the significant role that industry can play to improve management of plastics by working towards the top of the Zero Waste Hierarchy (redesign/rethink/reduce and reuse).
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    Proactive post-occupancy evaluation
    (Build Magazine, 2021-08-02) Rasheed E; Rotimi J; Vilasini N; Weerasinghe A
    A digital post-occupancy evaluation system for checking the operational performance of commercial buildings will be a useful tool as New Zealand faces the need to meet stringent carbon targets.
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    Severity Testing: A Primer
    (2020-04-01) Perezgonzalez J
    This is a primer on Mayo's severity testing technology, briefly explaining step by step the implications of severity in the context of rejection and retention of point nil hypotheses, of (conceptually broader) null hypotheses, and of confidence intervals. I finish proposing the use of a confidence interval heuristic for assessing Mayo's severity straightforwardly. In the present article we shall not concern ourselves with wars, whether statistical or philosophical. Instead, we shall work on a philosophical concept being put forth by Mayo in the last two decades (e.g., Mayo, 1983, 1991, 1996; Mayo & Spanos, 2006, 2010), more recently so with her book Statistical Inference as Severe Testing (Mayo, 2018). Severity testing stands for a procedure a researcher can avail of to falsify (frequentist) hypotheses; yet it may spill beyond that bin to become a broader philosophical approach that can serve to also falsify (Bayesian) models (Gelman & Shalizi, 2013), even entire theories. The article I present here is going to be a primer on Mayo’s severity concept in the frequentist realm. However, I sympathise with Gelman and reckon the unstated goal is to advance such primer as a step towards using severity in line with Gelman’s ideas and further, including Taleb’s own use of falsification as a tool to get more acquainted with what our models and theories prevents us from learning, such as about extreme events and Black Swans (e.g., Taleb, 2005, 2010).
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    Plastic pollution prevention in Pacific Islands: Gap Analysis of Current Legislation, Policies and Plans
    (EIA, 2020-08-01) Farrelly T; Borrelle S; Fuller S
    Using a gap analysis, this study aims to identify the current limitations in national plastic pollution policy for preventing plastic pollution. It also explores the potential to implement best practice for the reduction of plastic pollution and the promotion of a safe circular plastics economy.
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    Towards an equitable approach to marine plastic pollution
    (Ocean Nexus Center, University of Washington. Washington, US., 2022-01-01) Vandenberg J; Yoshi O; Farrelly T
    Current forms of marine plastic pollution and waste governance can, in some cases, exacerbate their inequitable burdens, and these burdens are likely to increase as plastics production continues to grow and be mismanaged. Marine plastic pollution adversely impacts humans and the environment (including food security, livelihoods, physical and mental health, and cultural practices and values), and it disproportionately impacts the lives and livelihood of more marginalized populations.
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    Plastic Pollution Prevention in Timor-Leste: Gap Analysis of Current Legislation, Policies, and Plans
    (SPREP, 2023-06-01) Steenhagen E; Sascha F; Farrelly T; Stephanie B; Ana R-G
    Plastics comprise sixty to eighty percent of all marine litter globally, with millions of metric tonnes originating from land-based sources every year (Borrelle et al., 2020; PEMSEA, 2020). An estimated 11% of plastic waste generated globally are mismanaged and enter freshwater and marine environments, equating to 86,740 metric tonnes (Mt) every day (Borrelle et al., 2020). If current production and waste management trends continue, roughly 12,000 Mt of plastic waste will be in landfills or in the natural environment by 2050 (Geyer, Jambeck & Law, 2017, p. e1700782). Small Island Developing States (SIDS) such as Timor-Leste are disproportionately impacted. Timor-Leste is currently experiencing disastrous impacts to marine ecosystems, health related problems and destruction of biodiversity due to the alarming increase of land- and marine-based plastic pollution. In Timor-Leste, approximately thirteen percent of the waste stream is made up of plastic. The Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) estimated that approximately 20.7Mt of plastic waste was released in the waters around Timor-Leste in 2010, with the amount expected to rise to 64.2Mt by 2025 (PRIF, 2018). Mismanaged plastic waste because of poor waste infrastructure and failed landfills is transported by wind, waste-water outfalls, and inland rivers, much of which eventually enters waterways, land and soil, and the marine environment (PRIF, 2018). Consequently, the government committed to eliminating plastics from the natural environment by 2023 through the ambitious ‘Zero Plastic Timor-Leste’ campaign. It was a goal in name only, as it is not close to being achieved as of 2023. This report aims to provide insight into Timor-Leste's capacity to implement plastic pollution reduction measures by providing a gap analysis of its current legislation, plans and policies. The research finds significant gaps in all analytical categories. Most alarming are the gaps that exist under the waste prevention, microplastics, and protection of human health themes. Findings suggest that the current institutional framework cannot protect human and environmental health, including human rights and biological diversity. The protection of Timor-Leste’s environment through the elimination of the discharges of plastics into the environment will only be possible through extensive amendments to legislation and policy frameworks that prioritise prevention through strict import rules, and supported by an effective international global treaty on plastic pollution that mandates that mandates core obligations, control measures, and impPlastics comprise sixty to eighty percent of all marine litter globally, with millions of metric tonnes originating from land-based sources every year (Borrelle et al., 2020; PEMSEA, 2020). An estimated 11% of plastic waste generated globally are mismanaged and enter freshwater and marine environments, equating to 86,740 metric tonnes (Mt) every day (Borrelle et al., 2020). If current production and waste management trends continue, roughly 12,000 Mt of plastic waste will be in landfills or in the natural environment by 2050 (Geyer, Jambeck & Law, 2017, p. e1700782). Small Island Developing States (SIDS) such as Timor-Leste are disproportionately impacted. Timor-Leste is currently experiencing disastrous impacts to marine ecosystems, health related problems and destruction of biodiversity due to the alarming increase of land- and marine-based plastic pollution. In Timor-Leste, approximately thirteen percent of the waste stream is made up of plastic. The Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) estimated that approximately 20.7Mt of plastic waste was released in the waters around Timor-Leste in 2010, with the amount expected to rise to 64.2Mt by 2025 (PRIF, 2018). Mismanaged plastic waste because of poor waste infrastructure and failed landfills is transported by wind, waste-water outfalls, and inland rivers, much of which eventually enters waterways, land and soil, and the marine environment (PRIF, 2018). Consequently, the government committed to eliminating plastics from the natural environment by 2023 through the ambitious ‘Zero Plastic Timor-Leste’ campaign. It was a goal in name only, as it is not close to being achieved as of 2023. This report aims to provide insight into Timor-Leste's capacity to implement plastic pollution reduction measures by providing a gap analysis of its current legislation, plans and policies. The research finds significant gaps in all analytical categories. Most alarming are the gaps that exist under the waste prevention, microplastics, and protection of human health themes. Findings suggest that the current institutional framework cannot protect human and environmental health, including human rights and biological diversity. The protection of Timor-Leste’s environment through the elimination of the discharges of plastics into the environment will only be possible through extensive amendments to legislation and policy frameworks that prioritise prevention through strict import rules, and supported by an effective international global treaty on plastic pollution that mandates that mandates core obligations, control measures, and impPlastics comprise sixty to eighty percent of all marine litter globally, with millions of metric tonnes originating from land-based sources every year (Borrelle et al., 2020; PEMSEA, 2020). An estimated 11% of plastic waste generated globally are mismanaged and enter freshwater and marine environments, equating to 86,740 metric tonnes (Mt) every day (Borrelle et al., 2020). If current production and waste management trends continue, roughly 12,000 Mt of plastic waste will be in landfills or in the natural environment by 2050 (Geyer, Jambeck & Law, 2017, p. e1700782). Small Island Developing States (SIDS) such as Timor-Leste are disproportionately impacted. Timor-Leste is currently experiencing disastrous impacts to marine ecosystems, health related problems and destruction of biodiversity due to the alarming increase of land- and marine-based plastic pollution. In Timor-Leste, approximately thirteen percent of the waste stream is made up of plastic. The Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) estimated that approximately 20.7Mt of plastic waste was released in the waters around Timor-Leste in 2010, with the amount expected to rise to 64.2Mt by 2025 (PRIF, 2018). Mismanaged plastic waste because of poor waste infrastructure and failed landfills is transported by wind, waste-water outfalls, and inland rivers, much of which eventually enters waterways, land and soil, and the marine environment (PRIF, 2018). Consequently, the government committed to eliminating plastics from the natural environment by 2023 through the ambitious ‘Zero Plastic Timor-Leste’ campaign. It was a goal in name only, as it is not close to being achieved as of 2023. This report aims to provide insight into Timor-Leste's capacity to implement plastic pollution reduction measures by providing a gap analysis of its current legislation, plans and policies. The research finds significant gaps in all analytical categories. Most alarming are the gaps that exist under the waste prevention, microplastics, and protection of human health themes. Findings suggest that the current institutional framework cannot protect human and environmental health, including human rights and biological diversity. The protection of Timor-Leste’s environment through the elimination of the discharges of plastics into the environment will only be possible through extensive amendments to legislation and policy frameworks that prioritise prevention through strict import rules, and supported by an effective international global treaty on plastic pollution that mandates that mandates core obligations, control measures, and implementation measures for the elimination of plastic pollution at all stages of the plastics life cycle.
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    Custody Messaging Evaluation - Hawke’s Bay Custody Unit
    (2022-02-22) Elers S; Spence C