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- ItemCentring Localised Indigenous Concepts of Wellbeing in Urban Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation: Case-Studies from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands(Frontiers Media SA, 2024-02-02) Mihaere, Shannon; Holman-Wharehoka, Māia-te-oho; Mataroa, Jovaan; Kiddle, Gabriel Luke; Pedersen Zari, Maibritt; Blaschke, Paul; Bloomfield, SibylNature-based solutions (NbS) offer significant potential for climate change adaptation and resilience. NbS strengthen biodiversity and ecosystems, and premise approaches that centre human wellbeing. But understandings and models of wellbeing differ and continue to evolve. This paper reviews wellbeing models and thinking from Aotearoa New Zealand, with focus on Te Ao Māori (the Māori world and worldview) as well as other Indigenous models of wellbeing from wider Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Oceania. We highlight how holistic understandings of human-ecology-climate connections are fundamental for the wellbeing of Indigenous peoples of Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Oceania and that they should underpin NbS approaches in the region. We profile case study experience from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Cook Islands emerging out of the Nature-based Urban design for Wellbeing and Adaptation in Oceania (NUWAO) research project, that aims to develop nature-based urban design solutions, rooted in Indigenous knowledges that support climate change adaptation and wellbeing. We show that there is great potential for nature-based urban adaptation agendas to be more effective if linked closely to Indigenous ecological knowledge and understandings of wellbeing.
- ItemEmerging Transitions in Organic Waste Infrastructure in Aotearoa New Zealand(Wiley, 2023-03-13) Diprose, Gradon; Dombroski, Kelly; Sharp, Emma; Yates, Amanda; Peryman, Bailey; Barnes, MartineAotearoa New Zealand is at a critical juncture in reducing and managing organic waste. Research has highlighted the significant proportion of organic waste sent to landfills and associated adverse effects such as greenhouse gas emissions and loss of valuable organic matter. There is current debate about what practices and infrastructure to invest in to better manage and use organic waste. We highlight the diversity of existing organic waste practices and infrastructures, focusing on Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. We show how debates about organic waste practices and infrastructure connect across three themes: waste subjectivities, collective action in place and language.
- ItemImpact Assessment of Climate Change on Energy Performance and Thermal Load of Residential Buildings in New Zealand(Elsevier, 2023-07-17) Jalali, Z; Shamseldin, AY; Ghaffarianhoseini, AWhile it is evident that climate change will have an impact on the energy demand for heating and cooling in buildings, the exact extent of this impact is not yet fully understood. Quantification of future cooling and heating need in buildings provides a basis for taking appropriate measures for building climate change adaptation. The focus of this study is to examine how future climate change scenarios will impact the heating and cooling of residential buildings across different climatic regions in New Zealand. The future weather data under changing climate were generated for six climatic zones of New Zealand employing the statistical downscaling method. The study used various climate change scenarios, which represent concentration pathways (RCPs), to generate weather data. Specifically, the RCP8.5 and RCP4.5 scenarios were employed in the building performance simulations for different prototypes of residential buildings. The results showed there would be a significant change in the thermal performance of residential buildings, with a noticeable increase in cooling load and a decrease in heating load. These changes include a maximum thermal load change of 3 kWh/m2 in Auckland by 2090, 2.7 kWh/m2 in Hamilton, 8.3 kWh/m2 in Wellington, 4.2 kWh/m2 in Rotorua, 11 kWh/m2 in Christchurch, and 11.6 kWh/m2 in Queenstown. The warmer climatic zones are expected to change from a heating dominated to a cooling-dominated zone. The results indicated the importance of considering present and future climatic conditions in design and establishing a foundation for actions for the resilience of buildings to climate change.
- ItemRegenerative-Based Green Supply Chain Management Model for the Construction Industry(IOP Publishing, 2022-01-01) Oyefusi, ON; Enegbuma, WI; Brown, A; Zari, MPGreen Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is considered to be the most effective management tool that aims to integrate environmental sustainability thinking into the built environment. This is in relation to its ability to substantially reduce greenhouse emissions, energy consumption, pollution, and other drivers of negative environmental change in the built environment. Despite the implementation of GSCM practices, climate change continues to occur with a steady rise in greenhouse gas emissions per year that are associated with the built environment. Hence, there is a need for a proactive regenerative approach that focuses not only on reducing negative environmental footprints but also aims to create net positive impacts on the environment. This study aims to address this issue by first identifying the dominant forms of construction GSCM practices and their performance limitations through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR). The result revealed that regenerative factors were lacking in current GSCM practices. To further explore the nature of expanding current GSCM practices, a regenerative-based GSCM model was developed that demonstrates the relationship between regenerative and GSCM practices. This research addresses the gaps in current GSCM practices which could serve as a strategic response to climate change in terms of both mitigation and adaptation responses.