Journal Articles (Earth and Atmospheric Sciences)
Items in this Collection
- 2Climate change
- 2Greenhouse gas emissions
- 1Adaptive capacity
- 1Carbon management
- 1Climate change mitigation
- 1Communities for Climate Protection
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Carbon management in New Zealand local government: Co-benefits of action and organizational resolve in the absence of government support
Download2014
In an effort to promote public sector carbon management, in 2004, New Zealand’s (NZ) Labour-led government funded local government membership in the Communities for Climate Protection - New Zealand (CCP-NZ) program, the NZ arm of ICLEI’s Cities for Climate Protection campaign. In late 2008 the...
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Evolution of the New Zealand voluntary carbon market: An analysis of CarboNZero client disclosures
Download2015
Milne, Markus J., Murphy, Maya, Birchall, S. Jeff
Climate change has the potential to dramatically change the world as we know, both in terms of the environment and the way in which societies operate. Public policy responses to climate change continue to evolve, with many western economies proposing mechanisms for emission reductions, for...
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Social vulnerability and climate change adaptation: The critical importance of moving beyond technocratic policy approaches
Download2021-10-01
Kehler, Sarah, Birchall, S. Jeff
Planning policy can play a key role in effective, equitable climate change adaptation; however, its capacity remains undermined by technocratic approaches reliant on hard measures, discounting significant research on addressing sources of social vulnerability for successful adaptation policy. Not...