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Great expectations for collective management: the mismatch between supply and demand for catchment groups Open

Jim Sinner, Marc Tadaki, Margaret Kilvington, Edward Challies, Paratene Tane , et al. · 2025

Globally, agri-environmental policies targeting individual farmers have made little progress on the problem of diffuse water pollution, leading to increased demand for collective approaches to manage cumulative effects. To understand the e…

Perceptions of the ‘good farmer’ and social licence to operate in Aotearoa New Zealand Open

Pamela Booth, Martin Espig, Nicholas Kirk, Jim Sinner, Hugh Campbell , et al. · 2024

Over the past 50 years, farming practices and public perceptions of farming in Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ) have changed substantially. These changes raise questions over the future relationship between farming communities and the public. R…

Dissecting the discourse of social licence to operate Open

Jim Sinner, Mark Newton, Tom Farrelly · 2024

This poster summarises our research into how and by whom the term 'social licence' is being used in New Zealand, and its implications for industry-community relations.

Crafting Collective Management Institutions in Messy Real-World Settings: A Call for Action Research Open

Jim Sinner, Marc Tadaki, Edward Challies, Margaret Kilvington, Paratene Tane , et al. · 2022

There is considerable interest in collective management as a potential solution to complex environmental problems, but existing research offers little guidance for the messy real-world task of creating new institutions. Research on collect…

Four propositions about how valuation intervenes in local environmental politics Open

Marc Tadaki, Jim Sinner, Charlotte Šunde, Annabelle Giorgetti, Bruce Glavovic , et al. · 2020

Environmental valuation provides a way of soliciting and organising information about how people relate to their environments. By canvassing a broad spectrum of human–nature relationships, valuation practice seeks to make environmental dec…

Measuring social licence: What and who determines public acceptability of aquaculture in New Zealand? Open

Jim Sinner, Mark Newton, Jaye Barclay, James Baines, Trisia Farrelly , et al. · 2020

Environmental valuation involves political choices that must be justified. Open

Marc Tadaki, Jim Sinner, Charlotte Šunde, Annabelle Giorgetti, Bruce Glavovic , et al. · 2020

National Estuary Dataset Open

Anna Berthelsen, D. E. Clark, Eric Goodwin, Javier Atalah, Murray Patterson , et al. · 2020

Cawthron Institute (Cawthron) has recently compiled a national dataset containing ecological estuary monitoring data (2001 to 2016) largely acquired from councils and unitary authorities (councils) around New Zealand. The dataset comprises…

Discourse, agency, and social license to operate in New Zealand’s marine economy Open

Mark Newton, Trisia Farrelly, Jim Sinner · 2020

The construction of discourse through choice of wording and sentence structure can affect power relations between people and groups. Social license to operate (SLO), broadly defined as the public’s acceptance or approval of a company and i…

Collaboration and modelling – tools for integration in the Motueka catchment, New Zealand Open

Andrew Fenemor, Neil Deans, Tim Davie, Will Allen, J. R. Dymond , et al. · 2019

A conceptual model of integrated catchment management (ICM) is presented in which ICM is defined as a process to achieve both ecosystem resilience and community resilience. It requires not only biophysical knowledge developed by hydrologis…

New Zealand estuary benthic health indicators summarised nationally and by estuary type Open

Anna Berthelsen, Javier Atalah, D. E. Clark, Eric Goodwin, Jim Sinner , et al. · 2019

Ecological data are often collected at small geographic scales. However, analysing data collectively over wider scales can reveal results and patterns not shown in the smaller-scale data. We summarised data for intertidal benthic ecologica…

Valuation as destruction? The social effects of valuation processes in contested marine spaces Open

Charlotte Šunde, Jim Sinner, Marc Tadaki, Janet Stephenson, Bruce Glavovic , et al. · 2018

National Estuary Dataset Open

D. E. Clark, Anna Berthelsen, Eric Goodwin, Javier Atalah, Murray Patterson , et al. · 2018

Cawthron Institute (Cawthron) has recently compiled a national dataset containing ecological estuary monitoring data (2001 to 2016) largely acquired from councils and unitary authorities (councils) around New Zealand. The dataset comprises…

2016 Subtidal Ecological Survey of Tauranga Harbour and development of benthic health models Open

Dana Clark, Caine Taiapa, Jim Sinner, Vanessa Rona Taikato, David Culliford , et al. · 2018

This report summarises the results of biological and physical data collected from a broad-scale subtidal survey of Tauranga Harbour conducted between March and May 2016. The survey was designed to understand more fully the role of various …

Correction: Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays Open

Gerald G. Singh, Jim Sinner, Joanne Ellis, Milind Kandlikar, Benjamin S. Halpern , et al. · 2017

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182233.].

Multiple stressor effects on marine infauna: responses of estuarine taxa and functional traits to sedimentation, nutrient and metal loading Open

Joanne I. Ellis, D. E. Clark, Javier Atalah, Weimin Jiang, Caine Taiapa , et al. · 2017

Group elicitations yield more consistent, yet more uncertain experts in understanding risks to ecosystem services in New Zealand bays Open

Gerald G. Singh, Jim Sinner, Joanne I. Ellis, Milind Kandlikar, Benjamin S. Halpern , et al. · 2017

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182233.].

Making sense of environmental values: a typology of concepts Open

Marc Tadaki, Jim Sinner, Kai M. A. Chan · 2017

Debates about environmental values and valuation are perplexing, in part because these terms are used in vastly different ways in a variety of contexts. For some, quantifying human and ecological values is promoted as a useful technical ex…

Factors influencing successful collaboration for freshwater management in Aotearoa, New Zealand Open

Nicholas A. Cradock-Henry, Suzie Greenhalgh, Philip Brown, Jim Sinner · 2017

Public participation in freshwater management has been widely advocated as an effective way to resolve the tensions between contested values and objectives while maintaining ecological integrity. However, questions remain regarding which p…

Community perceptions of collaborative processes for managing freshwater resources Open

Jim Sinner, Philip Brown, Mark Newton · 2016

Six of New Zealand's 16 regional councils are trialling collaborative planning as a means of addressing complex challenges in freshwater management. Although some work has been undertaken to evaluate similarities and differences across tho…

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