Adjunct Professor

Professor Ken Hughey is the Chief Science Advisor for the New Zealand Government’s Department of Conservation in Wellington. Ken is also a Professor of Environmental Management at Lincoln University, Christchurch. Ken’s research focuses on peoples perceptions of the environment, collaborative approaches to environmental management and generally on conservation and environment issues. Ken’s research achievements over the last five years have included playing a role in the development of an Atua (te ao Māori based) framework for thinking about approaches to environmental management, completing the 2019 survey of peoples perceptions of the state of New Zealand’s environment, and understanding how a government agency has responded to COVID-19 and implications for our carbon footprint.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Canterbury; Tch Coll Dipl, Christchurch College of Education; Master of Science, University of Canterbury; Bachelor of Arts (Geography and American History), University of Canterbury.

Memberships

• Chair, Te Waihora-Lake Ellesmere biennial Living Lake Symposium(s) organising committee(s)
• Member, Hurunui-Waiau Zone Committee for the Canterbury Water Management Strategy
• Member, Royal Society of New Zealand
• Member, Geographical Society of NZ
• Member, Waihora Ellesmere Trust Board
• Member, Environmental Institute of Australia and New Zealand, MEIANZ

Key Research Publications

Becken, S., Hughey, K.F.D. 2021. ‘Impacts of changes to business travel practices in response to the COVID-19 lockdown in New Zealand’. Journal of Sustainable Tourism. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2021.1894160

Hughey, K, Jacobson, C & Smith, E. 2017. ‘A framework for comparing collaborative management of Australian and New Zealand water resources’, Ecology and Society, 22(4), pp. 28.

Hughey, K.F.D., Kerr, G.N., Cullen, R. 2019. ‘Public perceptions of New Zealand’s Environment: 2019’. EOS Ecology: Christchurch.

Kerr, G, Hughey, K & Cullen, R. 2016. ‘Ethnic and Immigrant Differences in Environmental Values and Behaviors. Society and Natural Resources, 29(11), pp. 1280-1295.

Nagy, B, Mohsan, M, Hughey, K,F.D. 2017. ‘Flood Frequency analysis for a braided river catchment in New Zealand: Comparing annual maximum and partial duration series with varying record lengths’, Journal of Hydrology, vol. 547, pp. 365-374.

Orchard, S., Hughey, K.F.D., Measures, R. Schiel, D.R. 2020. ‘Coastal tectonics and habitat squeeze: response of a tidal lagoon to co-seismic sealevel change’. Natural Hazards, 103: 3609–3631.

Orchard, S., Hughey, K.F.D., Schiel, D.R. 2020. ‘Risk factors for the conservation of saltmarsh vegetation and blue carbon revealed by earthquake-induced sea-level rise’. Science of the Total Environment. 746 doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.141241.

Tripathi, M., Hughey, K.F.D., Rennie, H.G. 2018. ‘The Role of Sociocultural Beliefs in Sustainable Resource Management: A Case Study of Traditional Water Harvesting Systems in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal’. Case Studies in the Environment. June 2018, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/cse.2017.000851.

Walker, D.P., Ataria, J.M., Hughey, K.F.D., Park, P.T., Katene, J.P. 2021. ‘Environmental and spatial planning with ngā Atua kaitiaki: a mātauranga Māori framework’. New Zealand Geographer. DOI: 10.1111/nzg.12300.

Contact Professor Ken Hughey via email Ken.Hughey@lincoln.ac.nz.