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Biological Economies Team

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Hugh Campbell is Professor of Sociology at the University of Otago. He was previously Director of the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment (CSAFE), where he had a leading role in a series of research programmes into the farm- and orchard-level dynamics of agricultural sustainability. He has been concerned with the social and economic development of the kiwifruit industry since a study of possible grower responses to potential ‘greening’ of˜the industry in 1996. He has maintained an interest in the great kiwifruit ‘experiment’ with new forms of governance.

Matthew Henry is a Senior Lecturer in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, Palmerston North. As a human geographer, he is interested in how worlds are created out of spatial, temporal and material relationships. His research revolves around how information and material objects are used in technopolitical projects, and focuses on the long-term role of measurement, grading and quality systems in fashioning New Zealand’s global agrifood relationships. His recent work has examined taste projects in the meat industry.

Erena Le Heron is a Research Fellow in the School of Environment, University of Auckland. She is involved with the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge, examining the effectiveness of participatory processes in advancing new sustainable practices, and the ways that interactions between humans and their environments can produce outcomes that are different from our assumptions. She is fascinated by thinking of economies as resources that need continual work to hold them together, and about connections and flows rather than categories.

Richard Le Heron is Professor in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland, and formerly Vice President of the Royal Society of New˜ Zealand. He is currently focused on new knowledge possibilities and new-generation collective frameworks for the redirection of agri-culture and food production in conditions of reduced state involvement. His book Globalized Agriculture: Political Choice (Pergamon, 1993) foresaw emerging dilemmas from unrestrained market solutions in agriculture and food. He˜has recently completed a seven-year term as founding co-editor of Dialogues in Human Geography.

Katharine Legun is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Otago. She has been examining changes in the apple industry since 2008, where her research focused primarily on the ways that plants shape economic life. She is particularly interested in how characteristics of plants contribute to the organisation of food production, and how they might inspire new ways of organising our food system. Her˜work also extends to agri-environmental governance, where she has focused on the intersections between technology, practice and knowledge in light of the emergence of new sustainability-monitoring programmes.

Nick Lewis is Associate Professor in the School of Environment at the University of Auckland. In his research as an economic geographer, he is particularly interested in the limits that established narratives impose on economic imagination in public discussion, investment practice and policy formation. He works with a range of economic actors including regional development agencies, industry associations and policy offcials, especially in relation to agrifood and blue-economy futures. He is now a member of the science leadership team of the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge.

Eric Pawson is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Canterbury, and Past President of the Ako Aotearoa Academy of national tertiary teaching awardees. His research and writing interests focus on environmental history, rural landscape change and active learning pedagogies. He is coeditor with Tom Brooking of the Environmental Histories of New Zealand volumes (Oxford University Press, 2002; Otago University Press, 2013), and has worked in recent years on developing research and learning opportunities in post-earthquake Christchurch.

Harvey C. Perkins is Emeritus Professor of Planning at the University of Auckland and Past President of the New˜Zealand Geographical Society. He˜was formerly Professor of Human Geography at Lincoln University. His research and writing interests focus on urban and rural change. He˜is coauthor with David Thorns of Place, Identity and Everyday Life in a Globalizing World (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He is involved in the Building Better Homes, Towns and Cities National Science Challenge, co-leading a study of local regeneration initiatives in mid-sized rural settlements.

Michael Roche is Professor of Geography in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, Palmerston North. He is an historical geographer by background, with interests in the development of New Zealand agriculture and the pipfruit industry, as well as the fate of pastoral farming during and a˛er the removal of subsidies in the 1980s. He has also written critically about agricultural productivism, enabling him to bring a longer-term perspective to the Biological Economies project.

Christopher Rosin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Society at Lincoln University. He is a geographer conducting research that focuses on human–environment relationships in the primary sector, spanning from small-farmer political ecology in South America to audited best-practice schemes in New Zealand pastoral and horticultural commodity chains. More recently, his interests have broadened to include producer responses to climate change and utopian politics as an approach to global food security.

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Biological Economies Team

Biological Economies Team

The New Biological Economy: How New Zealanders are Creating Value from the Land