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Terrestrial Restoration
A critical element in the drive to halt the decline in New Zealand’s indigenous biodiversity is improving management in the human-dominated landscapes of rural and urban environments.
As well as covering the majority of New Zealand’s land area, these landscapes contain distinctive ecosystems and habitats that are poorly represented in the conservation estate, and are most at risk of continuing decline and loss of indigenous components.
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Recent research
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Various papers from The Urban Ecology Conference, Meaning and Design of Nature for the Urban Built Environment, held at Lincoln University, 24–26 August 2005, as part of celebrations for The Year of the Built Environment.
Recent Publications
Ignatieva ME. 2006. Approaches in urban ecology in Russia. In: Geographic approaches to understanding urbanising landscapes and urban ecosystems. AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, March 2006.
Kilvington M, Allen W. 2006. Social aspects of biodiversity in the urban environment.Pp. 29-35.. Greening the city: Bringing Biodiversity Back into the Urban Environment, Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture conference, 21-24 Oct 2003, Christchurch.
Meurk C, Swaffield S. 2006.
Plants are the infrastructure to ecological and cultural integrity.
RNZIH 2006 Conference Abstract.
Available: http://www.rnzih.org.nz/pages/Abstract_Colin_Meurk.htm
Meurk CD. 2006. Cities are cultural and ecological keys to biodiverse futures. The Banks Memorial lecture. Pp. 301-310.. Greening the city: Bringing Biodiversity Back into the Urban Environment, Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture conference, 21-24 Oct 2003, Christchurch.
Stewart GH, Ignatieva ME, Meurk CD. 2006. Approaches and current trends in urban ecology research in New Zealand. In: Geographic approaches to understanding urbanising landscapes and urban ecosystems. AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, March 2006.
Recent Presentations
Hostetler M 2008.
Thoughts, Issues, and Research on Developing Sustainable Communities
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Presentation to Ecan May 2008
Greenaway A 2007.
Low Impact Urban Design and Development
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Presentation to Topenergyand TsingHua, University: Beijing. June 2007.
Meurk C 2007. Urban Space - Making links between people, land & nature or planning & design of restoration at small to large/catchmentscales. Urban catchment connections workshop, 19 May 2007, Kaipatiki
Meurk C 2007.
Urban Space - Making links between people, land & nature or planning & design of restoration at small to large/catchment scales
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Urban catchment connections workshop, 19 May, 2007, Kaipatiki
Colin Meurk 2004.
Designing and planning sustainable habitat configurations in New Zealand's cultural landscapes
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Landcare Research
Links
New Zealand
- Lincoln University – urban ecology
- Department of Conservation
- Biodiversity online – includes the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy
- Ministry for the Environment – Biodiversity
- Centre for Biodiversity & Ecology Research – University of Waikato
International
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Biodiversity Conservation Information System (BCIS)
Primary Contact
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Landcare Research | |
Phone: +64 3 321 9999 | |
| Details: Colin Meurk |
