Improving decision making for sustainability: a case study from New Zealand

2009 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Geertshuis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand

Mechanical Handling Engineers—A Case for Engineering Management with Style

1988 ◽  
Vol 202 (3) ◽  
pp. 171-175
Author(s):  
T W Batley
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineer ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Business Management ◽  
Profit Sharing ◽  
Engineering Management ◽  
Engineering Company ◽  
Mechanical Handling

This case study concerns a mechanical engineer who has strong views on business management. He purchased a small engineering company in Dunedin, New Zealand, and put into practice his managerial philosophies of worker participation in decision-making and profit-sharing. The paper reviews the progress of the company during its first three years and then discusses the options for its future development.

scholarly journals Teaching Complexity: The Limits of Evidence and the ‘Prospective’ Case Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Amanda Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Work Environments ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Master Of Public Policy ◽  
Lesson Drawing

Policy practitioner–students in a Master of Public Policy programme in New Zealand describe many problems and processes in their work environments as ‘complex’. Yet, they hold firmly to a belief in the merits of ‘evidence’ to guide their advice and decision making in the face of that complexity. This article examines the aims and pedagogy of a two-course sequence designed to help students replace over-reliance on analysing existing evidence with understanding of the ways complexity concepts can aid in estimating possible outcomes of policy interventions. Starting with identifying evidence challenges, students learn how to compare a status quo situation and a prospective case of that status quo in which a new policy has been implemented. This method draws on existing scholarship in lesson-drawing for policy applications. Students are eased into an appreciation of a variety of complexity frameworks and concepts by looking at a case about which there is, strictly speaking, no evidence. 

An international perspective

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-120
Author(s):  
Kate Parkinson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Original Model ◽  
International Model ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Levels Of Service ◽  
Different Levels

This chapter assesses family group conferences (FGCs) as an international model of decision-making. FGCs are used in at least 20 countries across the globe. They are internationally recognised as an effective way of engaging families in decision-making processes. As the model has been applied in other countries, it has been adapted to reflect the cultures and the historical and policy context of individual countries and jurisdictions. Some of the processes are very similar to the original New Zealand model while others are very different and are hybrids of the original model. The chapter then studies the different levels of service implementation of FGCs and considers some of the outcome studies from seven countries. It also focuses on China as a case study for a country attempting to introduce FGCs as a culturally appropriate method of child protection practice.

Politics, water management and infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 378 (2168) ◽  
pp. 20190208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam Trowsdale ◽  
Kelly Boyle ◽  
Tom Baker
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Residential Development ◽  
Theme Issue ◽  
Urban Flood ◽  
Pipe System ◽  
The Third ◽  
Democratic Systems

While modern water management has been central to the achievement of a range of beneficial social outcomes, it has increasingly drawn criticism for its disconnection from democratic decision-making, hindering efforts to develop more resilient systems. This paper examines how an experiment with more resilient water infrastructure politicized centralized water management focusing, in particular, on a stormwater re-use ‘third-pipe’ system at a large residential development in Auckland, New Zealand. Through analysis of resident and expert views on safety, cost and security, the paper attends (1) to the ways in which techno-managerial water management was contested and, thus, politicized through the implementation of the third pipe, and (2) how the mobilization of techno-managerial discourses by water management authorities delegitimized the third-pipe system, rendering it ultimately inoperable. While our case study was thwarted by the de-politicizing apparatus of water management authorities, such experiments offer precedents, resources and hope for more democratic systems of water management. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Urban flood resilience’.

Everyday experiences of post-politicising processes in rural freshwater management

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1413-1431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda C Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Freshwater Management

There has been a burgeoning of geography literature that draws on post-politics to make sense of trends in Western liberal democracies. This body of literature argues that consensus is constructed around capitalism, and spaces for dissensus are closed off. However, critiques have focused on the state-centric and totalising nature of some of this literature. This article adds nuance and depth to explorations of post-politicising processes. I do this through an empirical case study that demonstrates how dissensus is disavowed through the construction of community, and highlights gendered and classed experiences of this disavowal. In exploring a rural community in Aotearoa New Zealand engaged in catchment-based decision making, I draw on Nancian critical community scholarship to analyse how neoliberal and rural discourses defined belonging. Boundaries, and who could access the catchment committee, were shaped by expectations of economic consumption, spatial membership, gendered behavioural norms and class. The policing of these boundaries became increasingly antagonistic to the point of threats of violence. Accounts by those who experienced this policing demonstrate the embodied and largely banal nature of post-politicising processes. And yet, this case study illustrates how efforts to depoliticise are entangled with politicisation and raises questions about how change unfolds.

scholarly journals Post-earthquake Demolition in Christchurch, New Zealand: A Case-Study Towards Incorporating Environmental Impacts in Demolition Decisions

2021 ◽  
pp. 47-64
Author(s):  
R. E. Gonzalez ◽  
M. T. Stephens ◽  
C. Toma ◽  
K. J. Elwood ◽  
D. Dowdell
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Building Codes ◽  
Earthquake Sequence ◽  
Future Evolution ◽  
Canterbury Earthquake Sequence ◽  
Environmental Considerations

AbstractThe 2010/2011 Canterbury Earthquake Sequence resulted in severe loss and disruption in Christchurch, New Zealand due to liquefaction and damage from strong shaking. Following the earthquake, over 60% of concrete buildings with 3 + stories in the Christchurch CBD were demolished, resulting in a widespread displacement of people and business, an excess of $NZD 40 billion in losses, and significant environmental impacts from the demolition. Following the event, it was revealed that environmental impacts were not a direct consideration in demolition decision making. This paper provides a quantitative evaluation of the environmental impacts of the demolitions in Christchurch to highlight the importance of including environmental considerations when deciding between repair or demolition of a damaged building. First, the quantitative and qualitative factors that led to the demolitions following the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence are discussed to provide context for the argument that environmental impacts should be included in such considerations. Next, the environmental impacts of building demolitions in Christchurch are presented in terms of the embodied CO2 and energy in the building materials; the demolition process and waste disposal are not considered in this initial evaluation. Finally, a brief discussion on incorporating environmental impacts into the demolition decision making paradigm is presented. Moreover, consideration of environmental impacts of demolitions supports the need to move toward low-damage design in the future evolution of building codes.

Blockchain in Supply Chain: Case Study of Lottemart Ciputat

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. K. Handoyo ◽  
M. R. Mashudi ◽  
H. P. Ipung
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chain Management ◽  
Information Asymmetry ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Chain Management ◽  
Production Processes

Current supply chain methods are having difficulties in resolving problems arising from the lack of trust in supply chains. The root reason lies in two challenges brought to the traditional mechanism: self-interests of supply chain members and information asymmetry in production processes. Blockchain is a promising technology to address these problems. The key objective of this paper is to present qualitative analysis for blockchain in supply chain as the decision-making framework to implement this new technology. The analysis method used Val IT business case framework, validated by the expert judgements. The further study needs to be elaborated by either the existing organization that use blockchain or assessment by the organization that will use blockchain to improve their supply chain management.

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