How we divide our landscapePerhaps nowhere tells more starkly of the duality in our relationship towards the natural environment than Taranaki: the dichotomy of the...
How we 'denature' natureThe 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 NovemberIf 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...