scholarly journals Taming COVID-19 through Social Resilience: A Meta-Capability Policy Framework from Australia and New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Menzies ◽  
Matevz Raskovic
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Social Resilience

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scholarly journals Developing a Policy Framework with Indicators for a ‘Just Transition’ in Aotearoa New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominic White ◽  
Catherine Leining
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Integrated Policy ◽  
Principles Of Justice

As Aotearoa New Zealand responds to climate change, policymakers are being challenged to ensure a ‘just transition’ for workers, households and communities. However, no domestic consensus exists about how to define, measure, monitor or manage a ‘just transition’. Maintaining public support for ambitious domestic decarbonisation will require an integrated policy framework which operationalises principles of justice and safeguards wellbeing. This article examines the concept of a ‘just transition’ for climate change and explores three tools for improving policy: inclusive, informed and iterative processes for decision making; an assessment framework for social resilience to change; and progress indicators.

scholarly journals The evolution of Risk from Landslides: Concepts and Applications for Communities in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gabriele Hufschmidt
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Landslide Hazard ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Absolute Level ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Elements At Risk

<p>The aim of this research is to identify temporal changes of risk from landsliding for several locations in New Zealand (the Western Hutt Hills, close to Wellington; Te Arai, close to Gisborne; Mt.Cook/Aoraki Village, South Island). While risk analysis usually targets a particular point in time, this research includes several five-year intervals (based on census years) starting in 1981 until 2006. The scale of this analysis is the community level. Risk is not expressed as an absolute level of loss, for example a dollar value or the number of fatalities. Risk is rather considered as the probability and extent of adverse effects on a community inferred from landsliding. As such, risk is relative: the aim is to quantify risk for a community relative to another point in time, and relative to other communities. In addition, the degree to which risk levels vary between communities is quantified. The objectives of the risk analysis are to: 1. establish landslide hazard, i.e. the frequency and magnitude of landsliding for each location, 2. develop an index of social vulnerability per census year and community, 3. develop an index of social resilience per census year and community, 4. combine 1.-3. and, together with exposure ('elements at risk'), determine risk from landsliding for each community through time.</p>

Tourism, Public Policy and Regional Development: A Turn from Neo-liberalism to the New Regionalism

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 290-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Shone ◽  
P. Ali Memon
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Regional Development ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Regional Government ◽  
New Regionalism ◽  
Tourism Planning

The use of tourism as a driver of economic development is widely acknowledged. In New Zealand and internationally, tourism is used overtly as a mechanism by which governments are able to address a variety of national, regional and local development objectives. In this paper, we present a critique of recent responses in New Zealand to the task of guiding tourism development from a strategic and collaborative sustainable development perspective. As argued in this paper, the roles and responsibilities of government in tourism were reinvented during the 1980s and 1990s. These changes, inspired by a neo-liberal political ideology to deregulate the New Zealand economy and to restructure the state sector and local government, ultimately included the tourism sector. More recently, however, public sector policy initiatives indicate a shift towards a more pro-active role for the local state (local and regional government) in managing tourism development. This shift, informed by a New Regionalism policy framework, anticipates a devolved tourism planning mandate that fosters longer-term strategic and collaborative planning of the sector in order to enhance the contribution of tourism to sustainable community wellbeing. We reflect on the likely effectiveness of a devolved tourism planning mandate and interrogate the role and potential of tourism to contribute to regional development, as framed by the political philosophies of the New Regionalism.

scholarly journals The evolution of Risk from Landslides: Concepts and Applications for Communities in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gabriele Hufschmidt
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Adverse Effects ◽  
Social Vulnerability ◽  
Landslide Hazard ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Absolute Level ◽  
Risk Levels ◽  
Elements At Risk

<p>The aim of this research is to identify temporal changes of risk from landsliding for several locations in New Zealand (the Western Hutt Hills, close to Wellington; Te Arai, close to Gisborne; Mt.Cook/Aoraki Village, South Island). While risk analysis usually targets a particular point in time, this research includes several five-year intervals (based on census years) starting in 1981 until 2006. The scale of this analysis is the community level. Risk is not expressed as an absolute level of loss, for example a dollar value or the number of fatalities. Risk is rather considered as the probability and extent of adverse effects on a community inferred from landsliding. As such, risk is relative: the aim is to quantify risk for a community relative to another point in time, and relative to other communities. In addition, the degree to which risk levels vary between communities is quantified. The objectives of the risk analysis are to: 1. establish landslide hazard, i.e. the frequency and magnitude of landsliding for each location, 2. develop an index of social vulnerability per census year and community, 3. develop an index of social resilience per census year and community, 4. combine 1.-3. and, together with exposure ('elements at risk'), determine risk from landsliding for each community through time.</p>

scholarly journals Broadcasting Policy Advice 1986-88: a Critical Evaluation of New Zealand's Broadcasting Policy Framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
David Robert Hay
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Market Mechanism ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Broadcasting Policy ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right

<p>In August 1988, the Labour Government announced its policy to deregulate the broadcasting industry. The policy was comprised two of major initiatives; 1. Commercialising the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, and 2. Creating property rights out of the right to broadcast and establishing a market mechanism to allocate these. The policy was based on an economic analysis of "the Economics of Broadcasting and Government Intervention" presented to the Royal Commission on Broadcasting and Related Telecommunications in a submission devised and presented independently of any political authority or mandate by the New Zealand Treasury. This thesis is presented as a piece of "public" policy analysis, in the sense that it seeks to explain, to a non-expert audience, the strengths, weaknesses and ethical implications of Treasury's analysis as well as the outcomes or effects that deregulation has had for New Zealand society. In doing this, it seeks also to explain to the community of policy analysts and advisors - using, as much as possible, the language of modern public administration and economics - the limitations of applying 'orthodox' economic theory to the role the media plays in mediating the relationship among audiences, the state, the market and society.</p>

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