The first part of the book covers income tax, rents, woodlands. heritage land. partnerships and c... more The first part of the book covers income tax, rents, woodlands. heritage land. partnerships and companies. and the full range of capital taxes. The second examines tax planning in the contexts of farm finance, business development and capital transfer. The book also has useful things to say about tenure change. It represents an excellent reference source for those researching into the management of the countryside.
Perception and Environment: The World of the Pastoral Nomads
New Zealand Journal of Geography, May 15, 2008
... (Kräder 1981, 74-75) TABLE II RESISTANCE OF ANIMALS TO THIRST, HUNGER AND FATIGUE: THE TEL TA... more ... (Kräder 1981, 74-75) TABLE II RESISTANCE OF ANIMALS TO THIRST, HUNGER AND FATIGUE: THE TEL TAMASHEQ EXAMPLE Animal Max. no. ... The Tel Tamasheq described by Susan Smith are a specific example of the more general type shown by Johnson in Figure 5b. ...
... were worked out by Hobson, British Resident Busby and Missionary Williams and a meeting calle... more ... were worked out by Hobson, British Resident Busby and Missionary Williams and a meeting called of all the Chiefs and GARTH CANT is ... From these middens scientists like Dr Janet Davidson of the Auckland Institute and Dr Atholl Anderson of the University of Otago are able to ...
Toi tu te marae o Tane Toi tu te marae o Tangaroa Toi tu te iwi Aotearoa/New Zealand in Context T... more Toi tu te marae o Tane Toi tu te marae o Tangaroa Toi tu te iwi Aotearoa/New Zealand in Context The geographical context is a long, narrow and mountainous land, broadside on to the westerly variables, the coldest and most distant part of Polynesia; discovered and settled a thousand years ago by the ancestors of Maori people, discovered again and, over the last 153 years, colonised by the ancestors of pakeha people (Figure 1). The culture and political context is two peoples, unevenly and ambiguously linked by a treaty signed in 1840, struggling to work out new resource and decision making relationships in the 1980s and 1990s. Tipene O'Regan, historian, negotiator, Chairman of the Ngai Tahu Maori Trust Board and presenter of the television series Manawhenua, draws deeply on traditional and academic knowledge to unroll the experience of the Polynesian encounter with this new and distant landJ The ancestors arrived from a world of tropical seas and small islands where Tangaroa, the Atua of the oceans and the fishes, was bountiful. They carried with them very intentional cargoes of people, plants and animals; artefacts; technologies in the mind; spiritual wisdom in the legends, the prayers and the genealogies. The ancestors landed adjacent to bays, river mouths, lagoons and estuaries; they explored, named and came to grips with the new environment by unrolling their legends on the new landscape, by exposing their plant and animal materials to the cold and the seasons and by adapting their technologies to new opportunities. The world of Tangaroa provided more familiar bounty; by contrast the world of forests, birds and insects-the extended family of the Atua Taneprovided new bounties and new problems of seasonal food supply. The environmental lessons were gradually learnt and the new world interwoven with tribal and subtribal identity. Long before the arrival of Tasman and Cook, the Maori iwi and hapu, tribes and subtribes, were established as those who nurtured and were nurtured by the land. They were tangata whenua, people of the land; they were the peoples who exercised kaitiakitanga or guardianship over its resources and its stories. These islands were also the last and most distant outliers of European exploration and settlement. Abel Tasman arrived from Batavia in the Netherlands East Indies in 1632 and placed New Zealand on the global map (Figure 2).
Famine in the Sahel: Natural Disaster or Structural Violence?
New Zealand Journal of Geography, May 15, 2008
... GARTH CANT is Reader in Geography, University of Canterbury, and was formerly on the staff of... more ... GARTH CANT is Reader in Geography, University of Canterbury, and was formerly on the staff of Westland High School. ... Basil Davidson's presentations fill out in detail and substance an extended period of history which Amin conveys briefly in broad brush terms (Davidson 1984 ...
Journal for The Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Jan 17, 2008
In African American Environmental Thought: Foundations, Kimberly Smith argues that black American... more In African American Environmental Thought: Foundations, Kimberly Smith argues that black American writing regarding the environment is rich, complex, and deserving of a place in 'the canon of American environmentalism' (p. 3). The foundations of black environmental thought, she maintains, rest mainly on theories of the proper relationship of black individuals to land marked by the history of oppression and theories of cultural vitality in light of biological determinism and scientific racism (pp. 7-8). As Smith admits, her book is limited in scope to elite male discourse and does not deeply explore other related subjects such as folk practices and religion. Despite these limitations, African American Environmental Thought is a necessary, well-written, and carefully argued work, providing a solid foundation for future study of this important but long overlooked subject. African American Environmental Thought unfolds chronologically, beginning in the mid-nineteenth century and concluding with the early twentieth-century work of Alain Locke and W.E.B. Du Bois. The first three chapters focus mainly on ideas concerning the interrelations between social freedom, land ownership, and responsible resource use in the Civil War and Reconstruction Era South. Slavery, Smith argues, generated a powerful ambivalence toward nature among black Americans. Most slaves were forced into tightly controlled contact with the natural environment but were at the same time barred from owning land. By removing creativity from the process of farming and connecting it with punishment, the slave system created a profound sense of emotional alienation among slaves from a formerly uplifting, community-building process. Black American environmental history, Smith continues, 'is a history of struggle against these forces of alienation and dispossession' (p. 12). Chapters 2 and 3 explore various responses to these conditions of alienation and dispossession, primarily those inspired by the democratic agrarian tradition. Democratic agrarians, like Thomas Jefferson, tied individual and community morality to owning and working the land. Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington, among others, drew upon this tradition and argued that personal freedom and the establishment of vital communities required uncoerced management of the land. Working the land under conditions of true social freedom helped redeem lands tainted by oppression and to fulfill the biblical calling to 'finish Creation' (p. 66). This call to finish Creation required 'not a blind mastery but a creative response' to the world (p. 97), and remained a central religious element to African American environmental ethics. Following the Civil War, social and economic conditions in the South led many black Americans to the more industrialized northern cities. Chapters 3, 4, and 5 focus
Ashley Dene: Lincoln University Farm: the first 100 years edited by DickLucas, NeilGow and AlistairNicol (eds), Lincoln University, Canterbury, 2012. 146 pp. ISBN 978-0-86476-250-4
A carefully crafted overview of the contribution that Dame Evelyn Stokes has made to geography an... more A carefully crafted overview of the contribution that Dame Evelyn Stokes has made to geography and to New Zealand society is already in the public record (
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