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Otago Regional Council’s Response to Lake Snow: A Planners Evaluation
No full textRegionals Council ability to response to invasive species under the Biosecurity Act 1993 is essential to protecting New Zealand’s economy, environment and society. Otago Regional Council response to usual phenomenon lake snow in Otago is investigated as a case study approach through triangulation of document analysis and informal discussions. The findings highlight the implementation ‘gaps’ and challenges encountered by one regional council through identification, researching and managing the nuisance algae
The New Zealand Geographical Society/Institute of Australian Geographers Conference 2018
No full textLincoln Planning Review 9(1-2) 2018 Special Issue on Building Better Towns and Communities
No full textViridiana: Plant Life and Landscape Aesthetics
No full textJulian Raxworthy’s new book advances an intriguing, well-researched treatise about the design of gardens. I found that, like some old book of philosophy, it lays out not so much a thesis as a guide for living, a practice doctrine, a set of rules, the divinations of a magus. After reading it, I found myself rethinking the spells in my own personal witchcraft. My review of Raxworthy’s book is a transcript of this rethinking operation. It, too, is about gardens
Questioning Tenets of Landscape Architecture
No full textConstructed Ecologies: Critical Reflections on Ecology with Design is a critical narrative that questions long-held beliefs and ideas in landscape architecture. According to Margaret Grose, our foundational knowledge in landscape architecture has shifted from horticulture to ecological systems, requiring some updating of our scientific understanding and viewpoints. While some may adhere to a love–hate relationship between landscape architecture and ecological science (Hoefer, 2015), Grose sees the importance of building a stronger relationship between theory (ideas) and data (evidence) to inform our future thinking in the discipline and profession.Grose expands the debate about how ecological scienc
Valuing the Discipline: Refrains and Riffs
No full textThe number of landscape architecture theory books published over the past few years1 suggests an increasingly complex level of self-reflection within the profession. Three edited volumes in particular – The New Landscape Declaration, Thinking the Contemporary Landscape and Values in Landscape Architecture– debate and define the value of landscape architecture as a profession and discipline
The Forest, the Trees and the Science of Scenery
No full textIt is not every day that you get to review someone’s life work. Dr Andrew Lothian’s The Science of Scenery certainly qualifies as a life work. It offers almost500 pages on everything you wanted to know about scenic beauty, and then a few things besides that in its encyclopaedic approach to the issues of scenery and landscape quality. The subtitle, How We See Scenic Beauty, What It Is, Why We Love It, and How to Measure and Map It, leaves little to the imagination. In this review, I describe and evaluate the content of the book and place it in a wider context of philosophical thought on landscape beauty by confronting it with the work of environmental philosophers, particularly Canadian philosopher Allen Carlson