GENED 101G Global Issues, Sustainable Futures

Faculty of Engineering
Associate Professor Carol Boyle has been working in the field of sustainability engineering for the past 12 years, both as a researcher and a lecturer at The University of Auckland.

• Her main research focus is on understanding and applying the science and engineering needed to achieve sustainability.
• Her current research projects include sustainability of small island states, urban metabolism, green infrastructure and sustainable buildings.
• Currently, she is Chair of The Sustainability Society and has organised and chaired four International Conferences on Sustainability Engineering and Science held in Auckland in 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2010, with another planned for November, 2012.
• She has organised and taught courses of over 550 students, has been awarded a Top 20 Teaching Award three times and her courses receive high evaluations from students, with an average of 8.6/10 since 2005.
• She is a member of the Teaching and Quality Learning Committee and the Teaching Excellence Committee for the Faculty.

Faculty of Business
Associate Professor Manuka Henare joined the Department in 1996 as a Senior Lecturer in Mâori Business Development.

• He is currently Associate Dean Māori and Pacific Development; founder Director of the Mira Szászy Research Centre and Co-ordinator, Huanga Māori Masters Programme, Graduate School of Business.
• He is a Board member of the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA) and Chair of its Audit and Risk Committee.
• Manuka is a member of the Institute of Directors and consultant.
• He has advised government departments, local authorities and other institutions on bicultural policies and has also served on government advisory committees on development assistance, peace and disarmament, archives, history and social policy.
• He was previously a lecturer in Māori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, where he taught courses on the Treaty of Waitangi, Māori culture and society and tribal histories.
• He also lectured in the Masters of Development Studies on culture, religion and economic development.
• Prior to his university career he was CEO of two national non-government organisations involved in international development, justice and peace, and has travelled extensively throughout Asia and the Pacific.

Department of Psychology
Niki Harré is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology where she has taught for thirteen years. In 2009 she received a university award for sustained excellence in teaching.

• Her recent research projects have focused on sustainable communities and schools, positive youth development and political activism.
• In 2007 Niki edited, with Quentin Atkinson, the book Carbon Neutral by 2020: How New Zealanders Can Tackle Climate Change.
• Niki is an active member of the Pt Chevalier Transition Town.
• She has just completed a book called Psychology for a Better World: Strategies to Inspire Sustainability. It is free to download from www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/psychologyforabetterworld.
• Her email address is n.harre@auckland.ac.nz.

Faculty of Science
Professor Glenn McGregor is Director of the School of Environment.

• His research area is climate and society especially climate variability and change, climate and health and climate and water resources.
• As well as researching and teaching in the field of climatology, Professor McGregor is:
  • Chief Editor of the International Journal of Climatology.
  • The World Meteorological Organisation’s Commission for Climatology Lead Expert on Climate and Health.
  • The 2011 President elect of the International Society of Biometeorology.
  • A lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
• Before joining The University of Auckland in 2008 he taught at universities in the UK, Hong Kong and Papua New Guinea.

Faculty of Law
Professor Klaus Bosselmann, Faculty of Law, is the founding director of the New Zealand Centre for Environmental Law since its inception in 1999.

• His teaching and research areas include international environmental law, sustainability law and governance, comparative law and legal theory.
• He has published twenty-five books and numerous articles in these areas and is an active member of several national and global networks promoting sustainability policies, law and governance.
• Klaus has taught a number of large class courses including Law and Society, Jurisprudence and others in the Law School and in the General Studies programme of the Faculty of Engineering.

Market Economics
Dr Garry McDonald is founding director of Market Economics Ltd, a Takapuna based economics consultancy employing 18 people.

• Since inception in 2001, Market Economics Ltd has completed over 1,200 consultancy projects for a range of public and private sector clients along with work undertaken for non-governmental organisations.
• These clients include central government agencies, regional government and local councils, private businesses and developers, universities and research institutions.
• Predominantly the consultancy work is New Zealand-focused, although some projects are undertaken overseas.
• Collaborative international research links have been developed through active participation in research networks, international staff exchanges, conference presentations and constant dialogue with the international ecological economics community.
• He has a PhD in Ecological Economics, is an Honorary Research Fellow of Massey University and a 2008/10 Invited Professor of Universite de Versailles, Paris.
• He is a provider of research services to the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Formerly FRST), specialising in Ecological Economic modelling, urban dynamics and environmental and natural hazard planning.

Dr Catherine Murray
Dr Catherine Murray is a consultant at Market Economics Ltd.

• Prior to this, she worked in local government in New Zealand, during which time she focused on urban change and city-region economies.
• She has worked as a researcher in the European Union specialising in integrated policy and institutional analyses, while managing an EU project workstream on social capital, governance and rural innovations in Central and Eastern Europe.
• She has a background in resource planning and rural economics, with a PhD in institutional economics.
• The consideration of governance structures affecting economic outcomes is a challenging research perspective, given the multitude of rules or institutions that operate at any one time. Peeling back the complex layers of rules that define social interaction enables a greater understanding of individual and collective motivation. The integration of the economic and social disciplines leads to an appreciation of economic outcomes, given the complexity of social structures that underpin the economy.

National Centre of Creative Arts and Industries
Dr Tricia Austin is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning.

• Her research interests are in the development and implementation of policies, strategies, plans and designs for more sustainable cities and communities.
• This research encompasses planning for more affordable and sustainable housing; designs to minimise pedestrian risk and encourage walking; and assessing policies to reduce transport carbon emissions across an urban region, for improved strategic planning.
• Whilst the largest class she has taught has been 80 students, Tricia is recognised as an excellent teacher and was one of the first recipients of The University of Auckland Distinguished Teaching Award in the inaugural year 1993.