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  • Impacts of Fracking on Indigenous Reservations in Alberta: Internship Report

    Internship project

    Author: Manaia Rehu. Supervisor: Dr Kepa Morgan Hydraulic fracturing or ‘fracking’ is emerging as the future of global energy. Fracking operations are increasing at an alarming rate throughout North America and the rest of the world. However, the process of fracturing fuel-rich subterranean rock deep below the surface to extract oil and gas has great uncertainty surrounding it.

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  • 2013 Seminars

    Impacts of the grounding of the CV Rena

    Associate Professor Paul Kayes, Kia Maia Ellis and James (Hemi) O’Callaghan will discuss the Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga research project they are leading - “An investigation into the fisheries resources and interests of iwi, hapū and marae within Tauranga Moana and the impacts caused by the grounding of the CV Rena”.

  • In the Media

    In New Zealand, this river and park are legal persons | Jacinta Ruru | TEDxChristchurch

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    In 2014, the Te Urewera National Park in New Zealand became recognised as a legal person under the law. In 2017, New Zealand did it again, declaring the Whanganui River as a legal entity. Law professor Jacinta Ruru considers the implications of these historic events in this warm and informative talk.

  • Documentaries

    In Pursuit of the Possible: Indigenous well-being

  • In pursuit of the possible: Indigenous well-being - A study of indigenous hope, meaning and transformation

    We know many of the key elements for social transformation, but what is not known is how to actively stimulate them at the right time, pace and scale, with the appropriate self-correcting mechanisms and forms of resource support provided at moments of need. This research project aims to create a new tool, namely an internationally comparative model of indigenous well-being.

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  • 2006 Conference

    Indicators of human and ecosystem

    Indicators of human and ecosystem by Dr Holly Dublin.