Long term and intergrated thinking
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Landcare Research is exploring the factors which make sustainability strategies effective for government and the public. To achieve sustainability in New Zealand we believe we need to adopt new ways of working and thinking and we are developing tools and process to support this.
This portal provides direct access to Landcare Research’s publications, tools and services on:
- futures thinking,
- sustainability assessment and reporting, and
- integrated and collaborative decision-making
Online publications and tools
Free of charge online Landcare Research publications and tools
Futures thinking
Foresight and responsiveness are critical characteristics of societies who can adapt and capitalize on long term change and cope with sudden shocks.- Seriously sustainable? - The sustainability challenge. Asia 2000’s Seriously Asia Conference, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, 2003 .
- Frame, B.; Marquardt, M. 2006: Implications of the Sustainable Development Programme of Action.
. Evaluation of the Government’s Sustainable Development Programme of Action. - Frame, B. Wicked’, ‘messy’ and ‘clumsy’: Long-term frameworks for sustainability.
Examination of the development of the Auckland Sustainability Framework. Society requires new forms of science and technology to productively accommodate the intrinsic value-laden judgments needed to manage the high uncertainties and considerable long-term impacts of sustainable urban planning…. - Frame, B.; Brown, J. 2008: Developing Post-normal Sustainability technologies. The last two decades have seen the development of an array of techniques and practices aimedat promoting sustainability. For many, results have been disappointing. There are charges thatsupposedly new organisational approaches remain embedded in managerialist, functionalistand anti-dialogic frameworks that are a significant part of the problem.
- Bebbington, J.; Frame, B. Towards governmentalities for sustainable development. National sustainable development strategies are used to explore sustainable development policy in two countries, Scotland and New Zealand….
Sustainability assessment and reporting
Methods of understanding, monitoring and reporting the cultural, economic, environmental, and social performance of such things as different urban forms, organisations and production patterns , with the broad goal of fostering sustainable development in NZ.- Sadler, B.; Ward, M.; Frame, B. 2008: A Framework for Sustainability Appraisal in New Zealand . The purpose of this think piece is to unpack the building blocks of sustainability appraisal, linking the international and New Zealand literature….
- Bebbington, J.; Brown, J.; Frame, B.; Thomson, I. 2007: Theorizing Engagement: The Potential of a Critical Dialogic Approach. This paper documents organisations’ self descriptions of why they initiated sustainable development reporting and explore these explanations using an institutional theory framework
- O’Connor, M. Frame, B. In a Wilderness of Mirrors: Complexity, Confounded Meta-narratives and Sustainability Assessment. The paper addresses methodological debates about indicators and valuation in sustainability assessment (SA). We decentre and reframe some aspects of existing practices, highlighting multi-actor multi-criteria evaluation SA as practices that articulate competing, unreconciled and often unreconcilable claims for sustainability.
- Bebbington, J.; Brown, J.; Frame, B. 2007: Accounting Technologies and Sustainability Assessment Models. Within ecological economics there is recognition of the need for new approaches to decisionmaking to support sustainable development initiatives. There is an increasing acknowledgement of the limitations of cost–benefit analysis approaches as a measure of the (un)sustainability of organisational activities.
- Bebbington, J.; Frame, B.; Higgins, C.P. Initiating sustainable development reporting: evidence from New Zealand .
- Cavanagh, J.; Frame, B.; Lennox, J. 2006: The Sustainability Assessment Model (SAM): Measuring Sustainable Development Performance . The Sustainability Assessment Model (SAM) is a tool for engaging people within organisations in sustainable development thinking and to evaluate the sustainability of projects. This article provides an overview of the SAM and presents a preliminary assessment of how it was used to assess organic waste processing options for a local council in New Zealand.
- Democracy, Sustainability and Accounting Technologies: The Potential of Dialogic Accounting. . Initiating sustainable development reporting: evidence from New Zealand.
- Frame, B.; Cavanagh, J. Experiences of sustainability assessment: an awkward adolescence
- Frame, B. 2005: Corporate Social Responsibility: A challenge to the donor community,
Collaborative and integrated decision-making
Social or collaborative learning acknowledges that each interest group brings different information, values, perspectives, methods of learning, and stores of historical experience to any problem situation. In essence collaborative learning is integration of these diverse knowledge bases in ways that advance the collective decision-making capability of all.- Monitoring and adaptive management: addressing social and organisational issues to improve information sharing. Natural Resources Forum 25(3)
- Getting technical environmental information into watershed decision making . Chapter 3 in Ed. J.L. Hatfield "The Farmers' Decision: Balancing Economic Successful Agriculture Production with Environmental Quality".
- Using participatory and learning-based approaches for environmental management to help achieve constructive behaviour change .
- Collaborating with iwi
Outlines key ingredients of successful collaborative research with iwi. It also describes some of the barriers to, and difficulties in, setting up collaborative research projects with Māori. - Stakeholder analysis
A brief outline and guide for conducting an effective stakeholder analysis - Team–building evaluation guide
A checklist for evaluating team performance - Frame, B.; Taylor, R. 2005: Partnerships for Sustainability: Effective Practice? Local Environment 10 (3), 275-299.
This paper presents as case studies some New Zealand local government sustainable development initiatives in cleaner production and civic building design. From a series of structured interviews with key players, it describes key motivators and demotivators and puts these in the context of behaviour change theory…
Services
Landcare Research consultancy services- Sustainability reporting
An advisory service concept that widens the scope of traditional management and reporting to include the social, environmental, and economic performance of an organisation. - Sustainable futures – provision of tools and processes to facilitate thinking around preferred futures and long term strategic planning.
- Collaborative learning processes. Tools and processes for enabling collective decision-making.
- Community vulnerability modeling. Mapping specific community’s current status against sustainability indicators and their vulnerability to impacts such as rising oil process and climate change
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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.