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BikeNZ Facilities Strategy (working document for Strategy development)
Prepared for BikeNZ by APL Project Management
This report is intended to provide a rationale which will assist BikeNZ in its development of a long term facilities strategy and ensure that its facility requirements are strategically in line... read more
Territorial Authority / School Partnerships: A Guide
Prepared for Sport NZ by Visitor Solutions Ltd.
Facility partnerships are increasingly being considered to meet the sporting and leisure needs of both the wider community and school students. Research from New Zealand and internationally... read more
Contextual influences and athlete attitudes to drugs in sport
Aaron Smith
This article reports on 11 narrative-based case histories which sought to: (1) uncover the attitudes of players and athletes to drugs in sport, and (2) explore contextual factors influencing the... read more
Outdoor Adventures for the Third Age
Mike Boyes
Human life expectancy is rising and there are increasing numbers of people over 65 years of age in society. There are well documented health and lifestyle benefits for the elderly to be physically... read more
Financing Sports Organisations in New Zealand: the impact of governors’ choices
Carolyn Cordery
Funding and financial management are critical issues for the not-for-profit sector. Funding is limited, competitively sought, and differences in funders’ and organisations’ expectations... read more
How safe is adventure tourism in New Zealand? An exploratory analysis.
T Bentley, S Page, D Meyer, D Chalmers and I Laird
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A GIS based walkway management system. Research Report No. 97/08,
Avery, M; Clements, R; Harrison, G; Hughey, K. F. D. and Thompson, M
The Walkway Management System (WMS) uses geographic information system (GrS) software to calculate an estimate for the level of maintenance required for walkway segments. It then assists the user in... read more
Proceedings of the 2007 Conserv‐Vision Conference (2009).
Abbott, M
There is a shift in emphasis in the management of the conservation estate towards fostering people’s participation in the conservation estate. This paper investigates how ‘being... read more
Designing wilderness as a phenomenological landscape: Design‐directed research within the context of New Zealand's conservation estate
Abbott, M
This research operates at both the meeting of wilderness and landscape, and also landscape architecture and design-directed research. It applies a phenomenological understanding of landscape to the... read more
Tauranga District Council: Aquatics Strategy 2012-2022 Discussion Paper
Tauranga City Council
The then Tauranga District Council adopted an Aquatic Strategy in 2001. The strategy was developed to guide the provision of swimming pool facilities in Tauranga. Many of the actions of the... read more