Another question I was asked in my most recent interview, on RadioLIVE, was, given the more 100-odd years of abuse suffered by many of...

Things looked a bit dicey there for a while, in the wake of the 7.8 magnitude Kaikoura earthquake the week before. But luckily there were...

I have compiled a slideshow of all the great pictures of people mingling over wine and nibbles at the launch of New Zealand's Rivers at...

The launch of New Zealand's Rivers at Scorpio Books in Christchurch was a great success, and an immensely enjoyable evening. Canterbury...

In my last post, I wrote about how environmental history can help us to progress discussions about fresh water today - one of the...

Perhaps nowhere tells more starkly of the duality in our relationship towards the natural environment than Taranaki: the dichotomy of the...

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...

I have just been reading Rebecca Macfie's Listener article about the Waitaha River, on the West Coast of the South Island, almost...

If you haven't received your invitation yet, and would like to come along, please RSVP to Canterbury University Press by 10th November....

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...