The origin of Taranaki Bay in early NewZealand maps
This article reviews previous explanations and ideas on the origin of Taranaki Bay in early NewZealand maps. The bay was first depicted on an 1826 French map drawn by Jules de Blosseville.
L'Atlas comporte 108pages de texte, 73pages de photographies et seulement 80pages de cartes, plus ou moins réussies. Compte rendu très critique dans NewZealand Geog., 1977, vol.33, n2, p. 96. (ALH).
Comparative biogeography of native Apoidea of NewZealand and New Caledonia
The differential radiation of the Colletidae and Halictidae in NewZealand and New Caledonia probably reflects the interactions between the different biologies of the 2 bee families, and the markedly divergent geomorphology, soil structure, climate
A new system of horizon notation for NewZealand soils based on that used in England and Wales is outlined. Like the latter, it gives specific definitions of the letter combinations used to label the most commonly occurring horizons, but it differs
in providing more additional suffixes to designate supplementary properties. Other major changes and new concepts, that give the system a separate identify, are enumerated.
The changes in NewZealand's international trading relationships are discussed against the backdrop of evolving international agreements. In considering the nature of these globalising processes, emphasis is placed upon the growing alliance between
the interests of trans-national corporations and government policy. Growing inter-penetration of Australian and NewZealand markets is highlighted.
Direct investment ; Economy ; Firm strategy ; International relations ; International trade ; Japan ; NewZealand
NewZealand's relations with Japan have to be considered in the context of Japan's role and relationships within the Asian region. The corollary of continuing regional economic integration is the emergence of local spheres of influence within Asia
, which may be sub-national or trans-national. They may be best comprehended in terms of emerging urban axes, with the Kansai Region. The consequences for NewZealand exchange with Japan are described in terms of changes in trade.
The paper uses ideas drawn from the international food regimes literature to explore NewZealand's position as a food and fibre exporter. The British connection and its demise are discussed in the context of the decline of the second food regime
. Some current difficulties and future possibilities for agricultural and forestry production are also discussed. Some of the possibilities for NewZealand's engagement with Pacific Asian economies in terms of a third food regime are raised.
NewZealand's position outside major trading blocks is problematic at a time of declining terms of trade for agro-commodities. The strategies pursued to improve NewZealand's trading position are considered with special reference to the Uruguay
Economic geography ; Geopolitics ; International relations ; National identity ; NewZealand ; Political geography
Political and economic aspects of NewZealand's position in the world are examined. There is a need for a balanced approach to the country's connections with power centres ot the capitalist West, in an emerging multipolar geopolitical environment
. Its national identity and interests have a distinctive South Pacific bicultural context: this is a strong relevance for NewZealand's international profile, especially in relation to Australia.
The paper explores a detailed account of the natural history of a single North Island sheep station written by its owner in 1921. By reading Tutira with a geographical eye, the local dimensions of the floral and faunal invasion of NewZealand
are revealed. It illuminates the biogeographical processes by which NewZealand was transformed and offers insight into an important distinction between natural and environmental history.
Significance of Tethyan fusulinid limestones of NewZealand in Gondwana Five. Selected papers and abstracts of papers.
The fusulinid limestones were deposited in an equatorial belt of open ocean, distant from the NewZealand Gondwana margin, where climate contrasted markedly with the cold environment of continental NewZealand represented by the Parapara Peak
sequence. They were part of a Tethyan area of deposition now widely dispersed in North America, NewZealand, and Southeast Asia by subsequent sea-floor spreading and accretion onto the continents bordering the Paleo-Pacific.
A dinosaur from NewZealand in Gondwana Five. Selected papers and abstracts of papers.
A vertebra from the Mata Series (Upper Cretaceous) of North Island, NewZealand, is identified as a theropod dinosaur caudal. The amphiplatyan centrum with elevated transverse process and other features exclude identification as marine reptile
. Terrestrial tetrapods known or inferred to have lived in NewZealand during the Upper Cretaceous were forms probably widespread throughout Gondwana before NewZealand's isolation. A brief survey of other known Upper Cretaceous insular dinosaur faunas indicates
Few attention has been paid to the forms of expertise and knowledge practices through which the global economy has been constituted as the focus of economic governance. Through a case study of the NewZealand Call Centre Attraction Initiative
, this paper draws from the governmentality literature to show new forms of economic governance can be conceptualised as an assemblage of spaces, subjects, strategies, and numbers. It is argued that far from being a new reality globalisation is a governmental
Doing well out of our doing good: a geography of NewZealand aid
Allocation ; Economic aid ; Economic strategy ; Financial aid ; NewZealand
The paper analyses changes in NewZealand's Official Development Assistance programme over the past 30 years. It outlines how, following a rapid increase in real aid spending in the mid 1970s, much of the subsequent period has been marked by steady
decline. The Pacific Islands have remained the main beneficiaries of the aid. There have been major changes in the past decade and a shift to policies guided by the new neoliberal philosophies of aid.
NewZealand agriculture and changes in the agriculture-finance relation during the 1980s
Agricultural policy ; Capital accumulation ; Capitalism ; Farming;Agriculture ; Finance ; Investment ; Market regulation ; NewZealand ; State control
, is a development of major historical significance in the NewZealand context.
This relation is outlined with a look especially at the state's retreated from lending to agriculture and new possibilities for corporate investment in land-based production. The sale of the government agency to the largest listed corporation
Rethinking the analysis of ethnic residential patterns : segregation, isolation, or concentration thresholds in Auckland, NewZealand ?
Auckland ; Ethnic community ; Ethnic group ; Index ; Measurement ; NewZealand ; Segregation ; Spatial concentration ; Urban area
Data from the 1996 NewZealand Census on ethnicity in Auckland are used to illustrate a new approach to measuring spatial separation. The method is based on thresholds. This provides more detailed information on the geography of ethnic groups