How we divide our landscape
Perhaps nowhere tells more starkly of the duality in our relationship towards the natural environment than Taranaki: the dichotomy of the...
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How we 'denature' nature
The fact that a 'drain' is a 'waterway' first occurred to me when I was in my late 20s, when I worked in an industrial part of...
How much do we care about nature we can't see?
I have just been reading Rebecca Macfie's Listener article about the Waitaha River, on the West Coast of the South Island, almost...
You are invited to New Zealand's Rivers launch - 17 November
If you haven't received your invitation yet, and would like to come along, please RSVP to Canterbury University Press by 10th November....
What's in Rivers?
A few people have asked what New Zealand's Rivers is about - which is a reasonable question. By way of answering this, here is a...
'Rivers' has arrived, and it looks great!
This week a preview copy of my new book New Zealand's Rivers: An environmental history, arrived from the printing press overseas. It...
Manawatu River history talk
I will be doing a talk about my book Ravaged Beauty, with a focus on the Manawatu River, at the historic Ashhurst Community Library (see...
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