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Climate-compatible development in New Zealand
Get PDFLike many countries, New Zealand is grappling with how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while adapting to climate change. We are working through a Zero Carbon Bill and the implications of transitioning to a low-carbon economy. The country is being told it needs a more co-ordinated and effective way to prepare for climate change impacts, as local government is formulating adaptation and mitigation strategies in an uncertain and, as discussed below, at times confusing legal and policy framework. Potentially helpful is a concept evolving internationally, climatecompatible development. This promotes the idea of explicitly combining strategies and policies for emissions reductions and adaptation initiatives while enabling improvements in human wellbeing. This article explores the usefulness of such a concept for New Zealand
Rejuvenating Radical Potential Through Transdisciplinarity: Art and Public Health
Get PDFWe begin this paper with a brief overview of disciplinarity and transdisciplinarity. Complex problems like climate change are one area where a disciplinary approach might compromise our ability to enact radical new ways of thinking. The concept of wicked problems has been developed to describe these kinds of complex issues. We discuss the concept of wicked problems and consider how transdisciplinarity might be a way of responding to these problems. We then turn to look at the discipline of public health, interrogating its radical potential and identifying ways in which it currently falls short of this potential. Having introduced these concepts, we discuss how art and public health might meet in a transdisciplinary manner, offering some examples of artists who are already working in a way that moves towards transdisciplinarity. We finish with a caution to avoid the instrumentalisation of art in this context.
 
Luc Arnault interviews Marc Orlando
No full textMy name is Dr Marc Orlando, I am a French-Australian bi-national, with working experience in France, New Zealand and Australia. I am the current director of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Monash University, in Melbourne, where I lecture in T&I and carry out research on translator and interpreter training and education. I am a firm believer that practice and research can inform each other through training and therefore I still work actively as a conference interpreter (member of AIIC) and as a translator, certified by NAATI
Marco Sonzogni interviews Peter Constantine
No full text"In my view, a translation is the closest possible reading of a text: I think that regardless of how often you read a literary work, or how deeply you study it, you will never be able to experience it as intimately as you will if you set out to translate it. The translator has to weigh every word and every punctuation mark, has to look between the lines for the author’s overt and not so overt intentions. This is a particularly fascinating process when you translate writers who are great literary stylists, such as Chekhov, Machiavelli, or Augustine. Reading between their lines is what interests me the most; that, and trying to recreate their timing and cadences in my English version.
Writing Colonisation Violence, Landscape, and the Act of Naming in Modern Italian and Australian Literature
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Independent scientific research entities in New Zealand: Cawthron Institute as a case study
Get PDFNew Zealand Science Review Vol 75 (1) 20183The Cawthron Institute in Nelson is used as a case study in the history of the management of science in New Zealand, set against the background of the development of DSIR in the 1920s and the science reforms of the 1980s–1990s. The early scientific and managerial successes of the Cawthron scientific research institute enabled it to build relationships with DSIR, while still remaining committed to the application of the research undertaken to its region. The latter commitment has endured, and so the Institute is able to occupy the middle ground between the ‘industrial science’ of the Crown research institutes and the ‘academic’ science of universities, as do some individual scien-tists as contractors
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