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- ItemNew Zealand Home Affordability Report: Quarterly Survey Q1 2024(Massey University Real Estate Analysis Unit (MUREAU), 2024-04-15) Javed A
- ItemNew Zealand Home Affordability Report: Quarterly Survey Q2 2024(Massey University Real Estate Analysis Unit (MUREAU), 2024-07-15) Javed A
- ItemNew Zealand Home Affordability Report: Quarterly Survey Q3 2024(Massey University Real Estate Analysis Unit (MUREAU), 2024-10-01) Javed A
- ItemLife cycle assessment and environmental footprinting of sectors and products in the New Zealand economy(Massey University, 2024) Patterson, M. G.; Kim, Joon-Hwan; McDonald, Garry; Grimson, Duncan; McDonald, Nicola; Monge, Juan J.Environmental policies rewarding the efficient use of natural resources as well as limiting current levels of pollutant are both profitable alternatives and costly constraints to some of New Zealand’s major economic contributors. Hence, more emphasis is being placed on identifying the sectors that are either the most efficient users of the nation’s precious natural resources or the most polluting ones contributing to both local problems like lake eutrophication and globally to challenges such as climate change. This publication contributes to our understanding of these issues, by undertaking input-output based life cycle assessment and environmental footprinting of 32 sectors in the New Zealand economy. This covers utilisation of natural resources (energy, land, freshwater, ecosystem services) and the pollutants (nitrogen, phosphorus, greenhouse gases, wastewater, landfill wastes). In total, 335 life-cycle assessment diagrams that quantify the direct and indirect natural resources or pollutants emitted from each sector. As well as being of practical use to life-cycle assessment and footprinting practitioners, these LCA diagrams should help better visualise the indirect impacts on the environment of sectors in New Zealand economy.
- ItemSummary for Policymakers of the Thematic Assessment Report on the Interlinkages among Biodiversity, Water, Food and Health of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services.(2024-12-16) McElwee PD; Harrison PA; van Huysen TL; Alonso Roldán V; Barrios E; Dasgupta P; DeClerck F; Harmáčková Z; Hayman D; Herrero M; Kumar R; Ley D; Mangalagiu D; McFarlane RA; Paukert C; Pengue WA; Prist PR; Ricketts TH; Rounsevell MDA; Saito O; Selomane O; Seppelt R; Singh PK; Sitas N; Smith P; Vause J; Molua EL; Zambrana-Torrelio C; Obura D
- ItemDigital Council for Aotearoa New Zealand. (2020). Towards trustworthy and trusted automated decision-making in Aotearoa.(Toi Āria: Design for Public Good, 2021-04-16) Brown A; Law M; Mark S; Parkin T; Reade A; Shibata S; Tobin AWe spoke to over 180 people throughout Aotearoa about different situations where ADM has specific impacts on the lives of individuals, whānau and communities. We heard loud and clear that ADM and other decision-making systems should be built for — and with — the people who are impacted. This is essential for ensuring trusted and trustworthy systems. When workshop participants talked about ADM, they focused on more than the technology itself. Instead, they talked about algorithms as being part of a much wider system that also included the way data is collected and used, the people and organisations that develop the systems, and the interventions resulting from decisions. Participants thought that ADM, with its ability to process data fast and at scale, is well suited to some situations. However, they were clear that it can be harmful in other situations and can intensify pre-existing bias and discrimination — especially when the decision has major impacts on the lives of individuals and their whānau. Participants provided clear and concise suggestions of what would make them feel more comfortable in situations where ADM is used. They want systems that are built to meet the needs and reflect the values of the communities impacted. To achieve this, it is important to participants that people who have similar lived experience to them are involved in the development of decision-making systems and the interventions that result from them. Participants told us they would be more comfortable if there was transparency and clear communication about how the government uses ADM and how it is used to make decisions. We took these clear and urgent suggestions and used them as a basis to develop a set of recommendations to the government. We looked at work already underway and the barriers preventing systemic change, and gathered input from experts to inform our thinking
- ItemUnlocking Transport Innovation: A Sociotechnical Perspective of the Logics of Transport Planning Decision-Making within the Trial of a New Type of Pedestrian Crossing(Building Better Homes, Towns, and Cities (BBHTC) National Science Challenge, 2018-06-01) Opit S; Witten KThis paper considers the proposal to install a novel type of pedestrian crossing, as part of a neighbourhood intervention, to investigate the architecture of decision-making that influences the delivery and outcomes of our urban environments. While political and policy-making directions often signal a movement towards providing better active transport options and safer urban environments for pedestrians and cyclists, delivering projects that achieve such goals can prove challenging, time-consuming and be marred by conflict. Innovative projects can stagnate, diminish in scale or fail to be realised entirely. The exact causes of these less than ideal outcomes are difficult to determine as they involve a complex sociotechnical assemblage of various actors, institutions, resources and logics. The architecture of decision-making that surrounds these projects is created through a myriad of de jure and de facto actors that, in concert, affect the material construction of neighbourhoods and shape our homes, towns and cities In Auckland, the regional Road Controlling Authority (RCA), ‘Auckland Transport’ (AT), dedicates a chapter in its ‘code of practice’ outlining its commitment to enabling innovative solutions where appropriate. Yet, as political demands for a modal shift towards active and public transport have gradually intensified, the organisation has sometimes struggled to adapt from ‘business-as-usual’ practices that prioritise goals associated with the private motor vehicle, such as road network capacity and flow efficiency (particularly, alleviating peak hour congestion problems).
- ItemReview Report on Tokelau's Clinical Health Services and Patient Referrals Scheme(Massey University, 2019-11-21) Mafile'o T; Foliaki S; Koro T; Leslie H; Redman-MacLaren M; West C; Roskruge MImproving Tokelau’s clinical health services and the Tokelau Patient Referrals Scheme (TPRS) patient referral scheme is the key purpose of this independent review. The objectives were to: 1. Review the relevance and effectiveness of clinical health services on Tokelau. 2. Review the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, impact and sustainability of the Tokelau patient referral scheme (TPRS). 3. Determine the funding required to deliver adequate levels of health service, and the potential budget impacts of the growing incidence of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). 4. Identify the key changes needed to deliver and sustain improved results from health services delivered on Tokelau, and through its patient referral scheme. Covering the period July 2014 to June 2018, the review focused on services in Tokelau and services received by Tokelau’s referred patients in Tokelau, Apia and New Zealand.
- ItemSummary report: Developing community: Following the Waimahia Inlet affordable housing initiative(Building Better Homes, Towns, and Cities (BBHTC) National Science Challenge, 2019-01-01) Witten K; Opit S; Ferguson E; Kearns RThis brief report summarises findings of a longitudinal case study of the Waimahia Inlet housing development. A more detailed analysis can be found in Witten, Opit, Fergusson and Kearns (2018). Waimahia Inlet is an affordable housing development located in Weymouth on an estuary of the Manukau Harbour, 23 km south of the Auckland CBD and 5km southwest of Manukau City centre. It was developed by Tāmaki Makaurau Community Housing Limited (TMCHL), an incorporated body comprising the Tāmaki Collective, Te Tumu Kāinga, Community of Refuge Trust (CORT) and the New Zealand Housing Foundation. This consortium of Māori organisations and community housing providers (CHPs) shared a mission to provide affordable, good-quality housing, with a focus on meeting the housing needs of Maori and Pasifika families. Waimahia is an interesting case study of affordable housing provision for a number of reasons: • its 295 dwellings make it Aotearoa’s largest third sector housing development; • the complementary expertise of the consortium partners enabled an innovative organisational structure to be developed to finance and deliver the development; • it is a mixed tenure neighbourhood with 70% of homes either assisted home-ownership (shared equity and rent-to-buy/home saver) or retained by the community housing providers as affordable rentals; and • 50 % of households are Māori and 15% Pasifika.
- ItemPerinatal caprine milk oligosaccharides consumption alters maternal and offspring liver gene expression(2020-01-02) Thum C; Young W; Roy N; McNabb W
