Research on the economic and human toll of natural disasters focuses on the short-term, often ignoring the important long-term impacts of these catastrophic events. The main reason for the lack of empirical research on the ...

For some time now, export incentives to non-traditional exports have been an essential part of the Government's development strategy to restore sustainable levels of growth to the economy. New Zealand has had an indifferent ...

Aftershocks from the magnitude 5.8 ML 1990 Lake Tennyson earthquake recorded at nine temporary portable seismographs have been used to invert travel-time data simultaneously for both hypocentre and velocity parameters ...

This selective annotated bibliography covers initiatives and services to Maori in libraries and the relationship of the library profession with Maori in New Zealand in the period 1991-1993. It follows on from a selective ...

The popularity of mobile phones and text messaging in today's society is ever present, especially among 18 to 30 year olds. For academic libraries where the majority of their users come from this age group, text messaging ...

The title of this thesis is at once grandiose and ironic in its reference to the 1968 Science Fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. 2001: A Space Odyssey (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1968. Director: Stanley Kubrick) The reasons ...

This thesis describes the Magnetotelluric survey undertaken on Mount Ruapehu in 2005. The aim of the survey was to extend the geographical coverage to the southwest of the mountain, to confirm the integrity of previous ...