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Navigating Murky Waters: characterising capture in environmental regulatory systems
Get PDFRegulatory capture is the quest by vested interests to exercise excessive influence on one or more aspects of a regulatory system. While conceptually simple, it is difficult to define and thus hard to diagnose and mitigate. In the environmental arena, sound regulation is at risk from, among other things, amorphous and contested conceptualisations of the ‘public interest’, politically salient asymmetries and scant institutional recognition of the breadth and depth of capture impacts. This article examines some indicative scenarios to illustrate potential impacts of capture and characterise motivations, conditions and outcomes that enable capture. We propose a wide-boundary definition which frames capture as a risk present throughout a regulatory system and delineates several potential types of capture and their characteristics
Drawing upon Covid-19 lessons to equip Aotearoa New Zealand to take bolder climate action
Get PDFThis article highlights challenges in public discourse on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand and explores why framing and narratives matter. Drawing on the country’s Covid-19 experience, it shows how narratives can help unlock climate action (both mitigation and adaptation). It proposes improving climate communications by providing structures to support sense-making and decision making, with more specificity around societal and individual actions. This will give people, businesses and communities more agency to respond to climate change. By fostering narratives that are hopeful, practical and people-centred, and that relate to people’s needs and aspirations, it is possible to build more momentum around climate action
Centennial city: the City of Auckland model
Get PDFAuckland Council is lucky to care for the surviving portion of a city model made for the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition in 1940. The model represents a section of Auckland central, covering the area from Albert Park to Nelson Street, and Waitematā Harbour to what is now Aotea Square. The model was displayed in Dominion Court, one of a dozen models which represented New Zealand's main cities and towns. Fletchersʹ architects Ronald Muston and Lewis Walker were responsible for the design of Dominion Court and the interpretive models and dioramas within. Muston had a special interest in the models and even travelled to Hollywood to learn about current trends in movie model design and advertising techniques.
The ingenuity of the model makers included ships that ʺsailedʺ on the harbours, faux glow worms in the papier mâché Waitomo Caves, and a model of Aoraki/Mount Cook which was over 7.5m high. Thousands of wooden model buildings were made and hand‐painted by artists and technical college students and were based on aerial and street‐level photographs and specific colour palettes for each city. The model came to Auckland City Council after the exhibition closed and has been displayed inside and outside of council. It was recently conserved and is once again on public display
Science interrupted: Tropical cyclone forecasting developments in the Deep South National Science Challenge
Get PDFIn this article I describe the state of understanding at the end of the Deep South National Science Challenge concerning how tropical cyclones - TCs, such as 2023's Gabrielle - may change in the future. TCs are some of the most destructive weather systems on Earth, and understanding how they may change in the future is of enormous societal and economic concern. A state-of-the-art climate model is used, forced with several future climate scenarios to study TCs affecting the New Zealand region. UKESM1 is a coupled atmosphere-ocean earth system model and the TCs predicted by it are found using offline software which tracks the position of simulated pressure lows through time. The software used is validated against the tracks of cyclones from 1968 [Giselle] and 2023 [Gabrielle] as well as a different cyclone tracking software package. The power dissipation index, PDI, gives a first order measure of TC strength and it is found that the average PDI per storm increases with top-of atmosphere radiative forcing by up to 24% under a `fossil-fuelled development' scenario, SSP5-8.5. I conclude with a discussion on New Zealand's future research landscape
New Zealand Nurses: Caring for Our People 1880 – 1950
Get PDFPamela Wood’s New Zealand Nurses: Caring for our People 1880-1950 reveals nursing through the eyes of fierce pioneers of New Zealand nursing. It provides a valuable window on the foundations of professional nursing and is likely to be of interest to nursing scholars and other curious readers. At the same time, however, it is missing the voice of Māori, the tangata whenua of Aotearoa New Zealand. By failing to consider the nursing practices before colonisation, or the impact of colonisation, Wood falls into the trap of colonial nostalgia, focussing on imported systems, rather than on their contextualisation in Aotearoa.  
Let’s NOT Celebrate Cook: Robyn Kahukiwa’s Confrontational 2020 Exhibition
Get PDFThis article examines the provocative exhibition Let’s NOT Celebrate Cook, a selection of paintings by Māori artist Robyn Kahukiwa (Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti, Ngāti Hau, Ngāti Konohi, Whānau-a-Ruataupare) at Mahara Gallery, Waikanae, near Wellington, in 2020.[i] Employing a decolonial lens, it explores the extent to which Kahukiwa’s artistic intervention disrupts the hegemony of Western historical discourse and reclaims an Indigenous narrative. It considers how, in foregrounding an Indigenous perspective, her artworks encourage candid discussion regarding the legacy and impacts of British colonisation in present-day Aotearoa New Zealand.
[i] Following an eighteen-month closure for extensive redevelopment, Mahara Gallery reopened in October 2023 under the new name of Toi MAHARA
Condorcet-Style Paradoxes for Majority Rule with Infinite Candidates
Get PDFThis paper presents two possibility results and one impossibility result about a situation with three voters under a pairwise majoritarian aggregation function voting on a countably infi nite number of candidates. First, from individual orders with no maximal or minimal element, it is possible to generate an aggregate order with a maximal or minimal element. Second, from dense individual orders, it is possible to generate a discrete aggregate order. Finally, I show that, from discrete orders with a particular property, namely the finite-distance property, it is not possible to generate a dense aggregate order
The Metaphysics of Routley Star
Get PDFThis paper investigates two forms of the Routley star operation, one in Routley & Routley 1972 and the other in Leitgeb 2019. We use the background of object theory to define both forms of the Routley star operation and show how the basic principles governing both forms become derivable and need not be stipulated. Since no mathematics is assumed by our background formalism, the existence of the Routley star image s* of a situation s is therefore guaranteed not by set theory but by a theory of abstract objects. The work in the paper integrates Routley star into a more general theory of (partial) situations that has previously been used to develop the theory of possible worlds and impossible worlds
The Calculus of the Compatibility of Propositions
Get PDFIvan Efimovič Orlov’s paper “The calculus of the compatibility of propositions”, published in Russian in 1928, is fascinating for anyone interested in the early history of relevance, modal or intuitionistic logic. This is a translation of that paper
Sir Owen Woodhouse and the Making of New Zealand Law
Get PDFIn the 2022 Sir Owen Woodhouse Memorial Lecture, I considered what it means to make law in New Zealand. Using examples from Sir Owen Woodhouse's illustrious career as a judge and law reformer, I argued that there are important differences in judges' and law reformers' conceptions of "making law". The common law is best seen not as a collection of rules but as a custom as to how to go about recognising what the law is. As a result, it is better to think of what New Zealand judges do as making common law in New Zealand, rather than remaking a New Zealand common law outside pre-existing traditions. The lecture illustrates this point by analysing the Supreme Court's decision in Ellis v R (Continuance), which was decided between the lecture being given in Wellington and its being given in Auckland in October 2022
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