Suzanne Vallance
Biographic Data
| ID | 161623 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Vallance |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Vallance |
| SIGNATURE | VALLANCE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lincoln University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8964-0340 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Women, equity and social reproduction: Retheorising ‘PPRR’ through a gendered lens
It has been argued that too much of our disaster risk analysis is overly focussed on hazards at the expense of processes of social organisation, including gender. In advancing a less myopic research agenda, our qualitative research with women undertaking ‘disaster recovery’ work in Aotearoa New Zealand highlights important, but often overlooked, distinctions between inequality and inequity. This work also shows the importance of women’s social re…
Exploring the role of empathy when intervening at deep leverage points of human–nature relationships
Despite being qualitatively different, wickedly complex problems are often still tackled in the same way as simple challenges. We draw on the concept of leverage points from systems thinking to suggest that simple solutions target shallow leverage points that tend to entrench rather than change policy trajectories, research agendas and practices. What is needed are transcendental changes to system goals at deep leverage points and, as a corollary…
Disaster justice and disastrous governance: What role for risk-based planning
Risk-based planning focuses on consequences (over likelihood) mitigated by land-use planning (over infrastructure). We report on risk-based planning in Aotearoa New Zealand’s amended Resource Management Act (1991) where Rawlsian-style distributive justice for vulnerable groups was promoted through councils’ use of ‘sensitivity classes’ for the infrastructure and assets they use, thereby mitigating exposure. We note, however, that this use may hav…
Urban governance: Public space management and ‘what’s in common’
The move towards more participatory forms of governance has demanded new public space management tools, techniques, practices, and processes, including increased opportunities and avenues for consultation. Somewhat problematically, these formal processes of governance and management do not always help resolve tensions among diverse (potential and active) users, particularly in areas where relationships between inhabitants and urban authorities ar…
Te kapa o Te Reureu: Keeping the home fires burning
Te Matatini has ensured kapa haka is now a well‐recognised form of national entertainment, but this has led to some debate about tradition and contemporaneity, and performance versus deeper politico‐cultural kaupapa. Through a case study based in Te Reureu Valley (Manawatū, Aotearoa/New Zealand), we explore the political potential of kapa haka, and highlight the role of ahi kā in this vital kaupapa. When tended by ahi kā, kapa haka (re)forged tho…
Strategic, tactical, complex and simple changes to farm systems
Pressure has grown to reconfigure commercial farm systems to ameliorate resource degradation as governments have increasingly sought to halt or reverse the damaging effects of agriculture on the environment. Now, climate change is creating additional pressure to redesign farm systems to withstand more variable, and historically more extreme, seasonal conditions. Meeting these pressures is thought to require a combination of responses ranging from…
Enabling nature’s participation in research: An Experiment in Empathy
The sustainable development construct has failed to arrest environmental decline, mitigate species extinction, slow climate change and reduce enormous global waste streams. Many argue this is because sustainable development retains and reinforces society–nature binaries and configures that relationship primarily for our human benefit. A good partner in a reciprocal, respectful and empathetic relationship would act very differently. The research w…
Experimentation Within the Urban Ecosystem: The Case for Cross-Sector Support
Urban experimentation has been identified as a key element of innovative approaches to urban sustainability and emerging practices of entrepreneurial municipalism whereby the public, private, and third sectors cooperate to address wicked problems—biophysical environmental deterioration and social inequality—brought about by neoliberalism. In contrast to vast, pan-state, top-down international programs, urban experimentation exploits interstitial …
Farmer wellbeing and animal welfare: Exploring the connections using the case of facial eczema
Charting New Ground: Between Tactical Urbanism and Strategic Spatial Planning
In this paper, we highlight some of the challenges associated with strategic spatial planning, including long-time frames, limited control, translation and implementation gaps. We then explore how tactical urbanism might, in theory, address these s given its emphasis on small-scale, immediate, experimental action for long-term change. Our research with a Charter-based, principles-led, action-oriented network is then used to test these possibiliti…
A mobile sense of place: Exploring a novel mixed methods user-centred approach to capturing data on urban cycling infrastructure
The paper explores a user-centred methodology for collecting, categorising, visualising, and interpreting data on urban cycling infrastructure and related cycling events. It develops a mobile mixed methods approach combining audio, video, sensor, and geospatial data sources. The method responds to stakeholders’ feedback and related concerns about negotiating engineering, landscape and urban design, planning and policy elements in a way that addre…
Interstitial Silences in Sociotechnical Change: The Case of Genetically Modified ‘Tearless’ Onions
Genetically modified (GM) ‘tearless’ onions were developed in a New Zealand laboratory facility in 2007, but efforts to initiate a field test were unsuccessful, and by 2012 the project had been almost completely dismantled. The overall trajectory of this project was influenced by a collaboration between teams of scientists in Japan and New Zealand; commercial pressures in the New Zealand science system; different regulatory processes that must be…
Building the Foundations of Collaboration: From Housing Development to Community Renewal
While collaborative governance and planning are seen as an improvement on technocratic “top-down” approaches, they are often criticized for exacerbating power imbalances, failing to be inclusive and/or impartial, and for ignoring historical conflict. This paper aims to investigate how strong foundations for collaborative housing renewal may be built so as to facilitate broader community renewal ambitions. Using qualitative methods and based on tw…
The Commons of the Tragedy: Temporary Use and Social Capital in Christchurch’s Earthquake-Damaged Central City
Garrett Hardin’s 1968 essay “The Tragedy of the Commons” famously decried the vulnerability of finite communal resources to overexploitation. Yet collective accessibility to and ownership of resources need not necessarily lead to their mismanagement or abuse; rather, the practice of sharing resources can engender positive environmental, social, economic, and political impacts. Social capital, as both the source and product of relational interacti…
Temporary use and the onto-politics of ‘public’ space
Embodied uncertainty: Living with complexity and natural hazards
In this paper, we examine the concept of embodied uncertainty by exploring multiple dimensions of uncertainty in the context of risks associated with extreme natural hazards. We highlight a need for greater recognition, particularly by disaster management and response agencies, of uncertainty as a subjective experience for those living at risk. Embodied uncertainty is distinguished from objective uncertainty by the nature of its internalisation a…
Expanding the conversational terrain: Using a choice experiment to assess community preferences for post-disaster redevelopment options
Living on the Edge: Lessons from the Peri-urban Village
The idea of an urban renaissance - based on a celebration of city life and its possibilities - is timely given half of the world's population now resides in urban areas. Yet, as appealing as this prospect may be, both in principle and planning theory, it remains at odds with the desires of many residents who seek 'lifestyle living' in low-density suburban or ex-urban settings. This article presents the results of a qualitative investigation of wh…
Almost Invisible: Glimpsing the City and its Residents in the Urban Sustainability Discourse
‘Urban sustainability’ currently receives widespread and generally enthusiastic endorsement, yet concerns are emerging that recent expressions of the concept may actually be working against the city and its residents. Based on research in Christchurch, New Zealand (one of the most urbanised countries in the world), it is argued that the assimilation of social, economic and bio-physical environmental elements that gave the idea much of its origina…
What is social sustainability? A clarification of concepts
Is another city possible? Towards an urbanised sustainability
Sustainable development has proved to be a most compelling concept, generating enthusiasm across the political spectrum, endorsement from various sectors and industries, and high levels of support from certain individuals. As a corollary, one could argue that the city’s right to exist (Catterall, City 12(3), pp. 402–415, 2008) must now be articulated in terms of sustainability; indeed urban sustainability is an alluring goal for many cities. Unfo…
What is social sustainability? A clarification of concepts
Embodied uncertainty: Living with complexity and natural hazards
In this paper, we examine the concept of embodied uncertainty by exploring multiple dimensions of uncertainty in the context of risks associated with extreme natural hazards. We highlight a need for greater recognition, particularly by disaster management and response agencies, of uncertainty as a subjective experience for those living at risk. Embodied uncertainty is distinguished from objective uncertainty by the nature of its internalisation a…
Temporary use and the onto-politics of ‘public’ space
Is another city possible? Towards an urbanised sustainability
Sustainable development has proved to be a most compelling concept, generating enthusiasm across the political spectrum, endorsement from various sectors and industries, and high levels of support from certain individuals. As a corollary, one could argue that the city’s right to exist (Catterall, City 12(3), pp. 402–415, 2008) must now be articulated in terms of sustainability; indeed urban sustainability is an alluring goal for many cities. Unfo…
Almost Invisible: Glimpsing the City and its Residents in the Urban Sustainability Discourse
‘Urban sustainability’ currently receives widespread and generally enthusiastic endorsement, yet concerns are emerging that recent expressions of the concept may actually be working against the city and its residents. Based on research in Christchurch, New Zealand (one of the most urbanised countries in the world), it is argued that the assimilation of social, economic and bio-physical environmental elements that gave the idea much of its origina…
Strategic, tactical, complex and simple changes to farm systems
Pressure has grown to reconfigure commercial farm systems to ameliorate resource degradation as governments have increasingly sought to halt or reverse the damaging effects of agriculture on the environment. Now, climate change is creating additional pressure to redesign farm systems to withstand more variable, and historically more extreme, seasonal conditions. Meeting these pressures is thought to require a combination of responses ranging from…
Expanding the conversational terrain: Using a choice experiment to assess community preferences for post-disaster redevelopment options
Living on the Edge: Lessons from the Peri-urban Village
The idea of an urban renaissance - based on a celebration of city life and its possibilities - is timely given half of the world's population now resides in urban areas. Yet, as appealing as this prospect may be, both in principle and planning theory, it remains at odds with the desires of many residents who seek 'lifestyle living' in low-density suburban or ex-urban settings. This article presents the results of a qualitative investigation of wh…
Is another city possible? Towards an urbanised sustainability
Sustainable development has proved to be a most compelling concept, generating enthusiasm across the political spectrum, endorsement from various sectors and industries, and high levels of support from certain individuals. As a corollary, one could argue that the city’s right to exist (Catterall, City 12(3), pp. 402–415, 2008) must now be articulated in terms of sustainability; indeed urban sustainability is an alluring goal for many cities. Unfo…
What is social sustainability? A clarification of concepts
Almost Invisible: Glimpsing the City and its Residents in the Urban Sustainability Discourse
‘Urban sustainability’ currently receives widespread and generally enthusiastic endorsement, yet concerns are emerging that recent expressions of the concept may actually be working against the city and its residents. Based on research in Christchurch, New Zealand (one of the most urbanised countries in the world), it is argued that the assimilation of social, economic and bio-physical environmental elements that gave the idea much of its origina…
Living on the Edge: Lessons from the Peri-urban Village
The idea of an urban renaissance - based on a celebration of city life and its possibilities - is timely given half of the world's population now resides in urban areas. Yet, as appealing as this prospect may be, both in principle and planning theory, it remains at odds with the desires of many residents who seek 'lifestyle living' in low-density suburban or ex-urban settings. This article presents the results of a qualitative investigation of wh…
Embodied uncertainty: Living with complexity and natural hazards
In this paper, we examine the concept of embodied uncertainty by exploring multiple dimensions of uncertainty in the context of risks associated with extreme natural hazards. We highlight a need for greater recognition, particularly by disaster management and response agencies, of uncertainty as a subjective experience for those living at risk. Embodied uncertainty is distinguished from objective uncertainty by the nature of its internalisation a…
Expanding the conversational terrain: Using a choice experiment to assess community preferences for post-disaster redevelopment options
The Commons of the Tragedy: Temporary Use and Social Capital in Christchurch’s Earthquake-Damaged Central City
Garrett Hardin’s 1968 essay “The Tragedy of the Commons” famously decried the vulnerability of finite communal resources to overexploitation. Yet collective accessibility to and ownership of resources need not necessarily lead to their mismanagement or abuse; rather, the practice of sharing resources can engender positive environmental, social, economic, and political impacts. Social capital, as both the source and product of relational interacti…
Temporary use and the onto-politics of ‘public’ space
Building the Foundations of Collaboration: From Housing Development to Community Renewal
While collaborative governance and planning are seen as an improvement on technocratic “top-down” approaches, they are often criticized for exacerbating power imbalances, failing to be inclusive and/or impartial, and for ignoring historical conflict. This paper aims to investigate how strong foundations for collaborative housing renewal may be built so as to facilitate broader community renewal ambitions. Using qualitative methods and based on tw…
Charting New Ground: Between Tactical Urbanism and Strategic Spatial Planning
In this paper, we highlight some of the challenges associated with strategic spatial planning, including long-time frames, limited control, translation and implementation gaps. We then explore how tactical urbanism might, in theory, address these s given its emphasis on small-scale, immediate, experimental action for long-term change. Our research with a Charter-based, principles-led, action-oriented network is then used to test these possibiliti…
A mobile sense of place: Exploring a novel mixed methods user-centred approach to capturing data on urban cycling infrastructure
The paper explores a user-centred methodology for collecting, categorising, visualising, and interpreting data on urban cycling infrastructure and related cycling events. It develops a mobile mixed methods approach combining audio, video, sensor, and geospatial data sources. The method responds to stakeholders’ feedback and related concerns about negotiating engineering, landscape and urban design, planning and policy elements in a way that addre…
Interstitial Silences in Sociotechnical Change: The Case of Genetically Modified ‘Tearless’ Onions
Genetically modified (GM) ‘tearless’ onions were developed in a New Zealand laboratory facility in 2007, but efforts to initiate a field test were unsuccessful, and by 2012 the project had been almost completely dismantled. The overall trajectory of this project was influenced by a collaboration between teams of scientists in Japan and New Zealand; commercial pressures in the New Zealand science system; different regulatory processes that must be…
Experimentation Within the Urban Ecosystem: The Case for Cross-Sector Support
Urban experimentation has been identified as a key element of innovative approaches to urban sustainability and emerging practices of entrepreneurial municipalism whereby the public, private, and third sectors cooperate to address wicked problems—biophysical environmental deterioration and social inequality—brought about by neoliberalism. In contrast to vast, pan-state, top-down international programs, urban experimentation exploits interstitial …
Farmer wellbeing and animal welfare: Exploring the connections using the case of facial eczema
Urban governance: Public space management and ‘what’s in common’
The move towards more participatory forms of governance has demanded new public space management tools, techniques, practices, and processes, including increased opportunities and avenues for consultation. Somewhat problematically, these formal processes of governance and management do not always help resolve tensions among diverse (potential and active) users, particularly in areas where relationships between inhabitants and urban authorities ar…
Te kapa o Te Reureu: Keeping the home fires burning
Te Matatini has ensured kapa haka is now a well‐recognised form of national entertainment, but this has led to some debate about tradition and contemporaneity, and performance versus deeper politico‐cultural kaupapa. Through a case study based in Te Reureu Valley (Manawatū, Aotearoa/New Zealand), we explore the political potential of kapa haka, and highlight the role of ahi kā in this vital kaupapa. When tended by ahi kā, kapa haka (re)forged tho…
Strategic, tactical, complex and simple changes to farm systems
Pressure has grown to reconfigure commercial farm systems to ameliorate resource degradation as governments have increasingly sought to halt or reverse the damaging effects of agriculture on the environment. Now, climate change is creating additional pressure to redesign farm systems to withstand more variable, and historically more extreme, seasonal conditions. Meeting these pressures is thought to require a combination of responses ranging from…
Enabling nature’s participation in research: An Experiment in Empathy
The sustainable development construct has failed to arrest environmental decline, mitigate species extinction, slow climate change and reduce enormous global waste streams. Many argue this is because sustainable development retains and reinforces society–nature binaries and configures that relationship primarily for our human benefit. A good partner in a reciprocal, respectful and empathetic relationship would act very differently. The research w…
Women, equity and social reproduction: Retheorising ‘PPRR’ through a gendered lens
It has been argued that too much of our disaster risk analysis is overly focussed on hazards at the expense of processes of social organisation, including gender. In advancing a less myopic research agenda, our qualitative research with women undertaking ‘disaster recovery’ work in Aotearoa New Zealand highlights important, but often overlooked, distinctions between inequality and inequity. This work also shows the importance of women’s social re…
Exploring the role of empathy when intervening at deep leverage points of human–nature relationships
Despite being qualitatively different, wickedly complex problems are often still tackled in the same way as simple challenges. We draw on the concept of leverage points from systems thinking to suggest that simple solutions target shallow leverage points that tend to entrench rather than change policy trajectories, research agendas and practices. What is needed are transcendental changes to system goals at deep leverage points and, as a corollary…
Disaster justice and disastrous governance: What role for risk-based planning
Risk-based planning focuses on consequences (over likelihood) mitigated by land-use planning (over infrastructure). We report on risk-based planning in Aotearoa New Zealand’s amended Resource Management Act (1991) where Rawlsian-style distributive justice for vulnerable groups was promoted through councils’ use of ‘sensitivity classes’ for the infrastructure and assets they use, thereby mitigating exposure. We note, however, that this use may hav…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Geography (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Business (6 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (6 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (5 works)