Sustainability and Society
Introduction
Recycling bins and Mt Cook. Image – Susanne Becken.
This team investigates the long-term effects of society on the environment. It focuses on ecosystem services and environmental management systems, sustainable development (policy, management and practice), ecological economics, climate change and tourism, and collaborative learning.
Research themes
- Business & sustainability
Primary contact: Jonathan King
The Business & Sustainability team work at the interface between research and consultancy where our focus is corporate sustainability. - Collaborative learning
Primary contact: Will Allen
Research in this area identifies factors, tools and processes that support constructive collaboration and social interaction in natural resource management. - Ecological Economics
Primary contact: James Lennox
Our research in this area explores links between the environment, economy and people, with a strong emphasis on quantitative analysis. Much of this research is conducted under the auspices of the New Zealand Centre for Ecological Economics, a joint venture between Landcare Research and Massey University. - Governance and sustainability
Primary contact: Bob Frame
Focussing on governance issues and decision-making processes that link together growth, innovation and sustainability as the key to New Zealand’s future success.
Tools & Services
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carboNZero certification programme
The carboNZero programme encourages and supports organisations and businesses, products and services, conferences and events, travel and tourism, and households and individuals to minimise their climate change impacts by providing the tools for them to measure, manage and mitigate their greenhouse gas emissions. -
Collaborating with iwi
Outlines key ingredients of successful collaborative research with iwi. It also describes some of the barriers to, and difficulties in, setting up collaborative research projects with Māori. -
EBEX21®
Emissions/Biodiversity Exchange in the 21st century. Generate carbon credits from forest regeneration projects. -
Enviro–Mark®NZ
Internet–based five–step certification programme that makes appropriate health, safety and environmental management achievable by organisations of all sizes -
Greening the Screen environmental toolkit
Our Greening the Screen programme encourages and supports screen companies and productions to identify their impacts and develop opportunities for improving environmental and social performance. -
Sustainability reporting
An advisory service concept that widens the scope of traditional management and reporting to include the social, environmental, and economic performance of an organisation.
Science leader
 | Michael Krausse Email  |
Landcare Research | |
Phone: 09 574 4100 |