Waikato Region

In today’s modern society New Zealand is a multi-cultural country and different people and cultures over the years have attained cultural attitudes, values and beliefs differently; therefore, multi-cultural characteristics are different to others within New Zealand. In this reflexive journal, my personal model of reflexive communication practice will focus on my understanding of personal, cultural, professional and political practices and how I perceive myself in today’s New Zealand society.…

The demographic includes special interest, incentive trips and people who are choosing to travel without young children. Below I have a graph based on the Rotorua region as Rotorua is roughly an hour and a half away from where Hobbiton is located. It has large amounts of tourist’s attractions in itself and is a popular area for tourists to stay and make a day trip to Hobbiton to then return to their accommodation…

Ethnobotany is the interactions of culture and plants and how the two affect each other over time Cordyline australis also known as ti Kouka or Cabbage Tree is a plant endemic to the New Zealand islands. Often described as out of place among the native fauna of New Zealand it is an iconic symbol of the country. Its uses have changed over the centuries, evolving along with New Zealand as Maori and then Europeans settled New Zealand and the resulting cultural shift that accompanied. Ti…

Water is a significant resource for the country of New Zealand with the country’s population growing, agricultural sector expanding and our climate changing from too dry to too wet and vice versa constantly. For some regions of New Zealand, the water and wastewater sector produce a considerable amount of the local greenhouse gas emissions. Grey water is relatively clean water from showers, baths, and sinks. This water can be cleaned and reused however many homes do not have a greywater system,…

microbiological water quality currently although several tributaries have high numbers of indicator bacteria. The National Policy Statement for fresh water management, 2014, states the need to maintain or improve the overall quality of water within a region by 2030 (2). Therefore, the company is obliged to follow the “Sustainable Dairying Water Accord” which mentions installing irrigation systems…

MSCI 371 Major Assignment Supply Chain Resilience practice in New Zealand Fonterra: Dairy for Life Introduction In this report I will examine the supply chain risks and disruptions, supply chain resilience practices currently in place, as well as discuss the key success factors and potential barriers to a New Zealand company that affect supply chain resilience. The company that I have chosen to examine is Fonterra. Fonterra is a dairy co-operative based in New Zealand, this means that Fonterra…

The Catchment Land Use for Environmental Sustainability model (CLUES), designed by the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd (NIWA), provided the data for both the Nitrogen and the Phosphorus concentrations throughout New Zealand. The development of CLUES was through a consolidation of existing mapping procedures and modelling(EnviroLink, 2012), and contributed to by various research organisations (NIWA, 2016). From this collaboration, the models responsible for the Nitrogen…

The introduction of Christianity impacted greatly of Māori Society. Pre-European Māori religious beliefs and practices did not orientate with the western values and so missionaries such as Samuel Marsden sought to use the introduction of Christianity as a tool to align Māori with the rest of the expanding European world (Walker 1990:85). Retrospectively, we can understand how the core beliefs of Māori differed from those of Christianity, however it was in the initial failings of Europeans to…