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Creating the pathways towards sustainable development requires a deep understanding of people, organisations and communities, of how values, identities and behaviors are formed and the social processes required for transformative change. Global forces such as resource scarcity and climate change create greater uncertainly of what the future holds for New Zealand, Landcare Research is increasingly focusing on how to build adaptability and resilience into our society.

This portal provides direct access to Landcare Research’s publications, tools and services relating to:

Community resilience and social capital,
Sustainable consumption and behavioral change, and
Tools and processes that support collaboration and social interaction in natural resource management.

Online publications and tools

Free of charge online Landcare Research publications and tools

Sustainable consumption and behavioral change

Motivating sustainable consumption is incredibly complex, requiring the understanding of the relationship between an individual’s behavior and their social and institutional context.

Frame, B.; Newton, B. 2007: Promoting sustainability through social marketing: Examples from New Zealand. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 31, 571-581. This paper investigates the social marketing of sustainability in New Zealand and examines the usefulness of advertising campaigns to enlist and empower people, towards environmental care....
Frame, B. 2004: The Big Clean Up: Social Marketing for the Auckland Region. Local Environment Vol 9 No 6, 507-526. The Big Clean Up (BCU) started in 2001 as Auckland Regional Council’s (ARC) sustainability social marketing project and arose from catalysts for change that occurred within ARC in the late 1990s leadership, training, partnerships and values…..

Community resilience and social capital

Community resilience is the capacity of a community to adapt and influence the course of environmental, social and economic change. In New Zealand, community resilience is commonly studied in relation to disaster management, but internationally resilience is being increasingly considered in the context of economic and community development.

Papers to come

Social processes

Research that identifies factors, tools and processes that support constructive collaboration and social interaction in natural resource management.

Services

Landcare Research consultancy services.

Analysis of alternative consumption patterns. Measuring the environmental impacts of different products and lifestyle using life cycle assessment and carbon foot-printing techniques.
Input-output analysis to assess production and consumption impacts to support sustainable consumption and production programmes.
Strategy and research development for increasing sustainable living through community development and social marketing programmes.
Collaborative learning processes. Tools and processes for enabling collective decision-making.
Collaborating with iwi. Landcare Research can provide support in the design, implementation and evaluation of iwi engagement initiatives.
Community vulnerability modeling. Mapping specific communities current status against sustainability indicators and their vulnerability to impacts such as rising oil process and climate change

Contacts

Behavioral change and social marketing programmes

Collaborative learning

	Claire Mortimer Email
	Landcare Research Private Bag 92170 Auckland Mail Centre Auckland 1142
	Phone: +64 9 574 4100 DDI: +64 9 574 4186 Mobile: 027 292 0006 Fax: +64 9 574 4101

	Will Allen Email
	Landcare Research P.O. Box 40 Lincoln 7640
	Phone: +64 3 321 9999 Fax: +64 3 321 9998

Collaborating with iwi

Community vulnerability modeling

	Garth Harmsworth Email
	Landcare Research Private Bag 11052 Manawatu Mail Centre Palmerston North 4442
	Phone: +64 6 353 4800 DDI: +64 6 353 4972 Fax: +64 6 353 4801

	Oscar Montes De Oca Email
	Landcare Research Private Bag 11052 Manawatu Mail Centre Palmerston North 4442
	Phone: +64 6 353 4800 Fax: +64 6 353 4801

Input – output analysis

Sustainable Futures

	Sarah McLaren Email
	Landcare Research P.O. Box 10 345 The Terrace Wellington 6143
	Phone: +64 4 382 6649 Fax: +64 4 913 9977

	Bob Frame Email
	Landcare Research P.O. Box 40 Lincoln 7640
	Phone: +64 3 321 9999 DDI: +64 3 321 9673 Mobile: 027 478 4123 Fax: +64 3 321 9998

Research programmes

Building capacity for sustainable development
This programme aims to strengthen the capacity and capability to support sustainable development within government (central and local), throughout business, and within New Zealand’s communities.
Outline of all of Landcare Research’s current research programmes including FRST funded programmes.