Existing and potential use of Orton Bradley Park, Charteris Bay, New Zealand

Orton Bradley Park (OBP) is a private farm park located 25 kilometres south east of Christchurch in the Lyttelton Harbour basin. The Park is marketed as offering peaceful picnic, BBQ and camping areas, heritage buildings and agricultural relics, as well as extensive walking tracks through regenerating native forest, commercial forest and farmland. Over its forty years of operation, little visitor profile data has been collected, so documented evidence of the Park’s use and users is limited. Despite this lack of information on visitation, recent development proposals have been suggested for the Park, which include family-friendly mountain bike tracks, a café, plant nursery, dog exercise area, historic tours and year-round basic camping facilities. To help evaluate the appropriateness of the proposed Park developments, the purpose of this study was to better understand OBP’s current and potential visitor use and markets in order for the Orton Bradley Park Board to make informed choices about future development and marketing

A bibliographical review of research completed by Nepali students at Lincoln University, New Zealand (1956 - 2022)

Not long after the summiting of Everest in May 1953, Bidur Kumar Thapa, the first recorded Nepali student arrived at the then Lincoln Agricultural College, supported by the Colombo Plan. He graduated in 1956 with a Masters of Agricultural Science with Honours in Soil Science under the supervision of Dr Walker, and went on to publish his findings on grassland soils in the Journal of Soil Science, in 1959. Thapa’s work laid the foundation and pathway for future students from Nepal. In the following years, more than fifty Nepali research students have been recorded in the Lincoln University archives as completing a range of research-based qualifications from across the University, and in many instances going on to publish findings in scholarly journals. This annotated bibliography sets out to collate, review and curate their collective research efforts spanning almost seventy years

The Tourism Adaptation Classification (TAC) framework: An application to New Zealand's Glacier country

Alongside growing awareness of the significance of environmental change for glacier regions, and their tourism-dependent communities, is the realization of the need to adapt to changing conditions. Such adaptation is necessary for tourism operators, managers, and planners as well as the visitors themselves, and is part of building resilient tourism systems. This paper presents a conceptual framework for understanding the possible stages of adaptation in glacier tourism destinations. The Tourism Adaptation Classification (TAC) framework aligns three stages of adaptation (resilience, transition, and transformation) against adaptation strategies implemented by tourism stakeholders and identifies specific characteristics. Using a desk-based case study approach, the framework is illustrated with reference to Glacier Country in New Zealand's Westland/Tai Poutini National Park in relation to three core dimensions of the tourism system: tourism planning and governance; tourism business and operations; and visitor experience

Food security in a COVID-impacted tourism destination: A case study of Queenstown, New Zealand

This report outlines the food (in)security situation in Queenstown, New Zealand in the context of its COVID-affected tourism downturn. It is illustrative of the global pandemic’s disruption to the tourism-dependent town and the ways in which this impacted food security within the community. The project used interview data from 13 interviewees each active in the Queenstown community in food welfare, social support, or local government. Supplementary data was gathered via a desk-based document and media search. Community-based food welfare providers reported high demand for food parcels largely due to COVID-19-related income reductions and job losses. Food welfare demand was strong from the commencement of the nationwide lockdown in March 2020, and remained relatively consistent in subsequent months as national borders remained closed to international visitors. Interviewees reported high numbers of migrants accessing food welfare as the result of tourism job losses, reduced shifts, and loss of access to meals they had received in hospitality roles previously. Many of these migrants were ineligible for government support. COVID-19 food security issues have been exacerbated by high demand for housing and high density living, which has reduced the amount of land available for home vegetable planting. This is limiting own food production and access to affordable high-nutrition foods. Reliance on the food welfare sector as a long term strategy is not sustainable if food security is the goal, however the array of community groups that offer food welfare may be able to proactively bolster food security, concurrent with their food welfare operations, and so enable food welfare recipients to transition to less vulnerability and greater food security in the future. Our findings caution against sectoral ‘self-sufficiency’ because high degrees of independence within sectors can translate to vulnerability in the face of disruption. Inter-sectoral integration – particularly within the agriculture, food and tourism sectors – is one avenue by which each sector could become more resilient. Further research in this area could identify pathways for building resilience

EVIDENCE AGAINST AN INTERACTION OF ANGIOTENSIN II WITH THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM IN MAN

Animal experiments indicate that angiotensin II can, under some circumstances stimulate the sympathetic nervous system at a number of different sites. In order to determine whether such a relationship of the renin-angiotensin and sympathetic nervous system exists in man, we increased (by intravenous infusion), or decreased (by administering the oral converting enzyme inhibitor captopril) circulating angiotensin II levels and monitored plasma adrenaline and nor-adrenaline responses. Angiotensin II infusions did not increase plasma catechol-amines, and lowering of angiotensin II by captopril treatment in patients with severe hypertension or congestive heart failure failed to alter plasma adrenaline or nor-adrenaline levels. Whether physiological levels of angiotensin II are capable of interacting directly with the sympathetic nervous system in man remains to be demonstrated.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/73600/1/j.1365-2265.1981.tb00684.x.pd

Stakeholder perspectives on the implications of increases in tourism on local users of nature-based recreation settings in the Selwyn District, New Zealand

The pre-COVID-19 growth in international tourism to New Zealand and the dispersal of visitors into the regions resulted in pressure at nature-based settings where both recreation and tourism occur. This research used data from interviews with fourteen outdoor recreationists to examine how they were responding to increasing visitor numbers at their favoured nature-based recreation settings. Findings suggested that recreationists have noticed increased tourism in areas used for outdoor recreation, and, although tourism to New Zealand was broadly supported, there were concerns about the negative impacts of tourism. Participants in this study reported displacing from their usual nature-based recreation settings due to tourism, and there was also evidence of the use of cognitive coping strategies. Analysis suggested that stakeholder perspectives align with tourism literature suggesting that tolerance for tourism decreases over time, typically as visitor numbers increase, and in the absence of direct benefits from tourism. This paper reports on phase two of a three-phase research project examining the implications of increases in tourism at nature-based recreation settings in the Selwyn District. Phases one and three (also published in the LEaP series) report on the literature on regional tourism and outdoor recreation, and on the perspectives of nature-based recreationists active in the study area

Looking beyond limitations: Electric vehicle use in New Zealand holidays

EVs are often described as inadequate for long distance holiday trips, and yet increasing numbers of drivers are travelling on holiday in EVs. We talked to 34 New Zealand EV drivers about their experiences of taking an EV on holiday. Although participants did talk about some of the widely reported difficulties or limitations of EV travel (including range, charging, towing, and access to the backcountry), we focus here on less widely reported experiences of actual (and usually successful) holiday trips. A feeling of being adventurous or pioneering, the freedoms associated with driving an EV, and the different sensations, feelings, and driving styles involved in EV travel all feature in this engaging summary of what we found

Tourism at the Glaciers

This presentation is the result of collaboration between researchers from the University of Canterbury and Lincoln University, bringing together our respective interests in the physical changes occurring at the Westland Glaciers and the consequential social effects - especially those related to the perceptions of visitors to the region. The recent changes at Fox and Franz Josef are evident to those who live and work here, and to those who have monitored these features over time. One of the aspects we wanted to explore is how aware visitors might be of changes, how their expectations about the glaciers matched their experiences, and how critical the glaciers themselves were to the ‘value’ of the Westland National Park experience. In addressing these sorts of questions, alongside improving our understanding of the physical conditions, the intention is to add to a database of information that can be used by those who live and work here, to make informed decisions about future delivery of the tourism experience.This on-going work is aligned to international studies of tourism in glacier environments – such as that in Athabasca Glacier, Jasper National Park – also experiencing environmental change

Two Cases of Cerebral Salt Wasting Syndrome Developing after Cranial Vault Remodeling in Craniosynostosis Children

Hyponatremia has been recognized as an important postoperative metabolic complication after central nervous system (CNS) operations in children. If not appropriately treated, the postoperative hyponatremia can cause several types of CNS and circulatory disorders such as cerebral edema, increased intracranial pressure. The postoperative hyponatremia after CNS surgery has been considered as one of the underlying causes of the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH). In some cases, however, the cerebral salt wasting (CSW) syndrome has been detected. CSW syndrome is far less well-known than SIADH and also different from SIADH in diagnosis and treatment. It causes an increase in urine output and urine sodium after a trauma of CNS and dehydration symptoms. The appropriate treatment of CSW syndrome is opposite the usual treatment of hyponatremia caused by SIADH. The latter is treated with fluid restriction because of the increased level of free water and its dilutional effect causing hyponatremia, whereas the former is treated with fluid and sodium resuscitation because of the unusual loss of high urinary sodium. Early diagnosis and treatment of CSW syndrome after CNS surgery are, therefore, essential. We made a diagnosis of CSW syndrome in two craniosynostosis children manifesting postoperative hyponatremia and supplied them an appropriate amount of water and sodium via intravenous route. The hyponatremia or natricuresis of the children improved and neurologic and circulatory sequelae could be prevented

Antecedent hypertension and heart failure after myocardial infarction

AbstractObjectivesWe sought to assess the relationship of antecedent hypertension to neurohormones, ventricular remodeling and clinical heart failure (HF) after myocardial infarction (MI).BackgroundHeart failure is a probable contributor to the increased mortality observed after MI in those with antecedent hypertension. Hence, neurohormonal activation, adverse ventricular remodeling and a higher incidence of clinical HF may be expected in this group. However, no previous report has documented serial postinfarction neurohumoral status, serial left ventricular imaging and clinical outcomes over prolonged follow-up in a broad spectrum of patients with and without antecedent hypertension.MethodsInpatient events were documented in 1,093 consecutive patients (436 hypertensive and 657 normotensive) with acute MI. In 68% (282 hypertensive, 465 normotensive) serial neurohormonal sampling and radionuclide ventriculography were performed one to four days and three to five months after infarction. Clinical outcomes were recorded over a mean follow-up of two years.ResultsPlasma neurohormones were significantly higher in hypertensives than in normotensives one to four days and three to five months after infarction. From similar initial values, left ventricular volumes increased significantly in hypertensives, compared with normotensives. Left ventricular ejection fraction rose significantly in normotensive but not hypertensive patients. Together with higher inpatient (8.1% vs. 4.4%, p < 0.002) and post-discharge mortality (9.5% vs. 5.5%, p = 0.043), hypertensive patients incurred more inpatient HF (33% vs. 24%, p < 0.001) and more late HF requiring readmission to hospital (12.4% vs. 5.5%, p < 0.001). Antecedent hypertension predicted late HF in patients >64 years of age with neurohormonal activation and early left ventricular dilation.ConclusionsAntecedent hypertension interacts with age, neurohumoral activation and early ventricular remodeling to confer greater risk of HF after MI