2016 Landscapes and People: New Zealand and the Cook Islands"Landscapes and People: New Zealand & Cook Islands" will allow you to explore the changing landscapes of two areas of the South Pacific. The first part of the program will be a voyage of discovery in the Southern Alps of the South Island of New Zealand, one of the most significant high-mountain environments of the Southern Hemisphere. You will learn about a wide variety of environmental processes and the opportunities and risks these have provided for the earliest (Maori and European) and present human inhabitants of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Several case studies will be employed including the rebuilding of Christchurch following the devastating Canterbury earthquakes of 2010-2011, the highly active nature of geologic and geomorphic processes in the Southern Alps, the history and environmental impacts of pastoral land use in the Southern Alps, the hydrological resources of the Southern Alps and how these are being impacted by climate change, and the management of mountain hazard risks in New Zealand. Program Type:
Group Study Program (GSP) |
