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Funding Climate Change Adaptation: the case for a new policy framework
No full textAdapting to climate change poses unprecedented technical, administrative and political challenges for which New Zealand’s current planning, regulatory and funding frameworks are illequipped. Without reform, they will deliver neither efficient nor equitable outcomes. Indeed, they will encourage governmental delay, incentivise sub-optimal solutions, increase future burdens, and reduce societal resilience. For sound anticipatory governance, our current frameworks need reform. This article summarises the nature of the adaptation challenges facing New Zealand, outlines the problems with current policy settings, identifies principles and considerations that should guide the reform agenda, and reviews several policy options. On balance, we favour creating a new national institution mandated to fund or co-fund, in accordance with statutory criteria, the major costs of adaptation
Keywords: Post-fascism
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The spectre of fascism currently haunts liberal democracy. This ‘keywords’ entry explores the expansion of Right-populism, white nationalism, and the alt-Right, examining the consolidation of a ‘post-fascist constellation’. I outline a five-featured ideal-type of fascism, before turning to explore post-fascism’s utopian dimensions, drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch. Against liberal attempts to mock, pathologise, or re-educate post-fascists, I argue we must attend to both the multitude of fears and the figures of a better world expressed within this formation of thought.
 
Rethinking Relationships
Get PDFThe Property (Relationships) Act 1976 is generally regarded as progressive and inclusive. The Act applies an equal property sharing regime to married spouses, civil union partners and de facto partners. It does not, however, recognise other sorts of close domestic relationships such as those between a parent and adult child or between siblings. This is in contrast to Australia where a number of jurisdictions have conferred relationship status on domestic relationships. This article considers whether there is a similar case to be made in New Zealand for extending property rights to people in domestic relationships
The Refugee Convention in the 21st Century
Get PDFOver the last decade a series of humanitarian crises such as the Syrian conflict has seen an explosion in the number of refugees and internally displaced persons around the world. The resulting unprecedented movement of people has placed a strain on the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. This article discusses the operation of the Convention in the 21st century, with a particular focus on the position of women and children. It analyses whether the Convention is adequately protecting the needs of the world's refugees in light of the current crises and other challenges such as climate change. Alternative international initiatives are also discussed.  
Trade in War's Darkest Hour: Churchill and Roosevelt's Daring 1941 Atlantic Meeting that Linked Global Economic Cooperation to Lasting Peace and Security
Get PDFA single page of text from the 1941 Atlantic Charter is a powerful reminder that the desire for peace and security drove the creation of today's global economic system. The global rules that underpin our multilateral economic system were a direct reaction to the Second World War and desire for it never to repeat
A quick look at prime numbers
Get PDFSince the time of the ancient Greeks, and probably long before then, we have been fascinated by prime numbers. One possible reason for our fascination with prime numbers is that the in-ter-relationships between them and the patterns that they appear to create are so difficult to understand. Another possible reason is that the primes appear to exhibit both deterministic behaviours (i.e. fully determined on the basis of naturally-occurring relationships) and random behaviours (i.e. occurring by chance). Nobody has succeeded in creating mathematical models that predict the magnitudes of prime numbers exactly or the numbers of prime numbers up to a given natural number. Other reasons for our fascination with primes may involve unexpected and quite exquisite relationships between prime numbers and certain mathematical functions and the seemingly disconnected islands of prime numbers, each surrounded by a sea of numbers that are not prime but which are related mysteriously to one another
Rolling back Modernity: Selective Tradition and Contemporary Literary Politics in the South Pacific
Get PDFThis article relates Raymond Williams’s concept of “selective tradition” to the shaping of literary history in Aotearoa New Zealand. It makes the case for the ongoing salience of Williams’s narrative of modernity as a “long revolution,” and his sense of the threats to democratic and cultural participation around the turn of the 21st century, as a framework for situating recent cultural politics. The article closes with some suggestions for possible future directions for the development of locally-based materialist literary criticism
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