Richard Le Heron
Biographic Data
| ID | 174467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Le Heron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Le Heron |
| SIGNATURE | LE HERON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2194-8653 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 89 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 602 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Why do we argue about risk? The invisibility of worldviews in marine decision-making
The paper asks “why are we always arguing about risk?” It explores what drives risk perception in decision-making processes in Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine environment. The research’s holistic framing shows that the prevailing concern with risk and uncertainty (RU) issues in government and managerial settings deflects attention from and hides the background influences of worldviews. After introducing the invisibilities around RU and outlining wo…
Kia aiō ngā ngaru, kia hora te marino: Smoothing the waters in natural resource management to mitigate risk and uncertainty
Aotearoa (New Zealand) is undertaking reforms in natural resource management, and there are promising signals that Indigenous perspectives will be included alongside science for decision-making. Any resource management system is underpinned by worldviews, from which values stem and then risk and uncertainty derive. Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) and Eurocentric notions of risk and uncertainty are fundamentally different because kno…
Rent as a regional asset: Rent platforms and regional development in Kaikōura, Aotearoa New Zealand
This paper reinterprets rent as geographical rent and argues that it can be mobilized as an asset to drive regional development in the form of geographical rent platforms (GRPs). Framing diverse regional development initiatives in Kaikōura, New Zealand (Aotearoa) as GRPs, the paper illustrates the potential of collectively developed and oriented place-based initiatives to enact futures from regional resourcefulness. It has particular value for re…
Social–ecological connections across land, water, and sea demand a reprioritization of environmental management
Despite many sectors of society striving for sustainability in environmental management, humans often fail to identify and act on the connections and processes responsible for social–ecological tipping points. Part of the problem is the fracturing of environmental management and social–ecological research into ecosystem domains (land, freshwater, and sea), each with different scales and resolution of data acquisition and distinct management appro…
Methodological sensitivities for co-producing knowledge through enduring trustful partnerships
Indigenous ways of caring for the environment have long been marginalised through research methodologies that are blind to a range of ways of knowing the world. Co-production of knowledge across Indigenous knowledge systems and Western scientific approaches is receiving attention both internationally and within the science system in Aotearoa New Zealand. Addressing power asymmetries as part of the co-production process is also slowly gaining reco…
What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes
Le Heron, E., W. Allen, R. Le Heron, M. J. Logie, B. Glavovic, A. Greenaway, D. Hikuroa, K. K. Davies, and P. Blackett. 2021. What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes. Ecology and Society 26(1):29. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12211-260129
Remaking ocean governance in Aotearoa New Zealand through boundary-crossing narratives about ecosystem-based management
Despite international advances in linking ecosystem knowledge and ecosystem-based management (EBM) frameworks, progress in Aotearoa New Zealand to develop holistic ocean management has been hesitant and slow. The paper explores ocean governance by combining enactive narratives and boundary-crossing thinking. Strategic use of narratives can energise different collective imaginaries for holistic ocean governance at various scales. The narrative res…
Navigating collaborative networks and cumulative effects for Sustainable Seas
New Economic Spaces: New Economic Geographies
Describing, studying, and creating new economic spaces, James W. Harrington and Richard Le Heron Network, embeddedness, and cluster processes of new economic spaces in Korea, Sam Ock Park High tech 'Large Firms' in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia: congregation without clustering?, Roger Hayter, Kevin Rees and Jerry Patchell Geographic context and radical innovation: the formation of knowledge in the American and Japanese electronic musical in…
Further assembly work: A mountains to seas Blue Economy imaginary
In response to the suggestions of our commentators, we sketch in some new directions for geographic assembly work aimed at developing situated holistic Blue Economy imaginaries. We focus on several interlinked provocations: conceptualizing mountains to seas imaginaries, centring water, rethought relations of governmentality and governance derived from new ethically informed behaviours, strategies for transitioning conceptions into new policy mode…
Assembling a Blue Economy moment? Geographic engagement with globalizing biological-economic relations in multi-use marine environments
In the 2010s, the ‘Blue Economy’ has been widely advocated by a spectrum of interests as a strategy to save the world’s oceans and water. This article explores what the Blue Economy moment is and how geographers can engage with it. It acknowledges recent efforts by geographers to understand Blue Economy but goes further by outlining the European Union’s Blue Economy programmes and by discussing these in relation to recent agenda setting in marine…
Geographers at work in disruptive human–biophysical projects
Enacting BAdairying as a system of farm practices in New Zealand
This chapter provides two sorts of contextual information to help depict the active material, and discursive agency of environment in which farmers were contemplating to commit to stewarding their soil, land and land uses differently. It addresses an operational fusion of BA and dairying, an assembled approach to farming that is motivated by soil issues, and future possibilities of soil tended differently. The chapter explores the BAdairying phen…
Conclusion
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a site where scholars from many parts of the world might bring together a cluster of ideas around the intellectual project of biological economies. It examines the potential of biological economies as an academic project a place where linked ideas come to be placed together, reworked and reassembled into new ways of c…
Assembling generative approaches in agri-food research
This introduction presents on overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explores new practices and categories of knowledge making and new possibilities for transformative scholarship. It describes in assembling potentially co-productive lines of thinking that might foster a new moral economy of agri-food and build a platform for a new generation of more disruptively productive agri-food scholarship. The …
Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems: Markets and Livelihoods
Conclusion: Embodied Risks of Exchange Relations
Economic Spaces of Pastoral Production and Commodity Systems: Markets and Livelihoods has been a co-learning project, and related to it, a politics of knowledge project. The collective learning project has been to probe deeply and disturb, especially through empirics, the idea in much contemporary thought that markets and livelihoods can ontologically be separated. The partitioning breaks down when these categories are theorised from a perspectiv…
Biological Economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers
Agri-food ‘systems’ are exemplary of multiple realities, from that of traditional to modern, to alternative, among which contestation often occurs in a fight for political power. In a political economy narrative – mobilized by right- or left-leaning scholars – the credit (or blame) is by and large put on humans and institutions as the sole source of agency. These points of view, however, fail to address the complexity of human–nature relationship…
Addressing surprise and uncertain futures in marine science, marine governance, and society
Thrush, S. F., N. Lewis, R. Le Heron, K. T. Fisher, C. J. Lundquist, and J. Hewitt. 2016. Addressing surprise and uncertain futures in marine science, marine governance, and society. Ecology and Society 21(2):44.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08574-210244
Geographies of Food: Politics, Place, Power Reprised
Cultivating critical practices in physical geography
Fundamental changes in the meaning and practice of environmental science are affecting - and are affected by - the theoretical, technological, pedagogical and institutional projects of physical geography. These changes have given rise to a range of 'integrative' (or integration-directed) disciplinary narratives which articulate a role for physical geographers within an engaged project of societal relevance and transformation. In this context, we …
Improving ecosystem service frameworks to address wicked problems
Davies, K. K., K. T. Fisher, M. E. Dickson, S. F. Thrush, and R. Le Heron. 2015. Improving ecosystem service frameworks to address wicked problems. Ecology and Society 20(2): 37. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07581-200237
Michael Carolan's Embodied Food Politics
Rethinking the geography PhD in New Zealand: Navigating through contexts, circumstances and challenges
Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography
This paper emerged from discussions held over a two-day symposium hosted by the University of Western Sydney and the Institute of Australian Geographers in December 2011. Drawing on contemporary themes in economic geography around postcolonial theory and a concern with the histories of the sub-discipline, the symposium sought to triangulate these discourses using Raewyn Connell’s (2006, 2007a, 2007b) concept of ‘Southern Theory’ as a means of beg…
The Spaces and Subjects of a Globalising Economy: A Situated Exploration of Method
In this paper we aspire to develop a situated method in order to interrogate the spaces and subjects of the globalising economy. In our brief review of the social science literatures on economic globalisation, we identify a promising intellectual convergence around the theme of imaginaries. We develop an argument that global imaginaries involve both discourses and practices that are, in turn, constitutive of new spaces and subjects. We identify t…
From economic globalisation to globalising economic processes: Towards post-structural political economies
Cultivating critical practices in physical geography
Fundamental changes in the meaning and practice of environmental science are affecting - and are affected by - the theoretical, technological, pedagogical and institutional projects of physical geography. These changes have given rise to a range of 'integrative' (or integration-directed) disciplinary narratives which articulate a role for physical geographers within an engaged project of societal relevance and transformation. In this context, we …
The New Zealand designer fashion industry: Making industries and co‐constituting political projects a
This paper uses the New Zealand designer fashion industry as an analytical lens through which to examine the co‐constitution of political projects in what we label ‘after‐neoliberalism’. The paper begins by tracing the making of New Zealand designer fashion as an industry, and relates this process to four political projects in which designer fashion is understood to have different possibilities – globalisation, the knowledge economy, creative cit…
Co-learning: Re-linking Research and Teaching in Geography
What might geography in ‘the universities’ look like if geographers seriously confronted the growing dichotomy between research and teaching? This challenge goes to the heart of ‘the university’ as a site of learning. The authors argue that the globalizing character of higher education gives urgency to re-charting the university as an environment that prioritizes co-learning as the basis for organizing educational activities in geography and pote…
Assembling a Blue Economy moment? Geographic engagement with globalizing biological-economic relations in multi-use marine environments
In the 2010s, the ‘Blue Economy’ has been widely advocated by a spectrum of interests as a strategy to save the world’s oceans and water. This article explores what the Blue Economy moment is and how geographers can engage with it. It acknowledges recent efforts by geographers to understand Blue Economy but goes further by outlining the European Union’s Blue Economy programmes and by discussing these in relation to recent agenda setting in marine…
Nature, culture, and the work of physical geography
Human–environment relationships are increasingly regarded as complex and worthy of interdisciplinary scrutiny. In this context, several physical geographers have made calls for their subdiscipline to take a ‘cultural turn’ and engage more fully with human elements of environmental change. However, despite sharing a general commitment to thinking about the material implications of human behaviours, definitions proposed for a cultural physical geog…
Creating food futures: Reflections on food governance issues in New Zealand's agri-food sector
Geographies of food: Afters
This third and final 'Geographies of food' review is based on an online blog conversation provoked by the first and second reviews in the series (Cook et al., 2006; 2008a). Authors of the work featured in these reviews - plus others whose work was not but should have been featured - were invited to respond to them, to talk about their own and other people's work, and to enter into conversations about - and in the process review - other/new work w…
Biological Economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers
Agri-food ‘systems’ are exemplary of multiple realities, from that of traditional to modern, to alternative, among which contestation often occurs in a fight for political power. In a political economy narrative – mobilized by right- or left-leaning scholars – the credit (or blame) is by and large put on humans and institutions as the sole source of agency. These points of view, however, fail to address the complexity of human–nature relationship…
Rapid Reregulation, Agricultural Restructuring, and the Reimaging of Agriculture in New Zealand1
As a member of the Cairns Group, New Zealand is an excellent case for investigation of the impacts of market-based restructuring and the emergence of new mechanisms for regulation. The paper examines how agriculture in New Zealand has been impacted by economic reforms that have fundamentally changed the nature and interrelations of regulatory arrangements and economic processes. The paper sketches the origins of New Zealand's agricultural crisis …
Rooms and moments’ in neoliberalising policy trajectories of metropolitan Auckland, New Zealand: Towards constituting progressive spaces through post‐structural political economy
This paper seeks to open up what economic geographers think they can do as academics engaging in the policy realm. It draws on the author's role as an academic and his policy persona as academic expert and academic with expertise that has been guided by post‐structural political economy (PSPE) thinking. It is Auckland‐centred, situated in three trajectories: PSPE thought and practice developing at the University of Auckland, the Auckland Regional…
Living local, growing global: Renegotiating the export production regime in New Zealand’s pipfruit sector
Globalizing Economic Geographies in the Context of Globalizing Higher Education: Editorial
This editorial sits appropriately between the JGHE Symposium: Teaching Economic Geography and the JGHE Symposium: Geography's Place in Higher Education. We begin with a proposition that relates directly to geographical pedagogy and to promises and prospects for the subject; depending on one's research, the conferences we attend, the sessions we participate in, who comes into the room, and who is able to have a say makes worlds of difference to ho…
New value from asking ‘Is geography what geographers do?’
The rural state? Limits to planning in rural society
Towards governing spaces sustainably—reflections in the context of Auckland, New Zealand
Pluriactivity: An exploration of issues with reference to New Zealand's livestock and fruit agro-commodity systems
Neither here nor there or always here and there? Antipodean reflections on economic geography
This paper emerged from discussions held over a two-day symposium hosted by the University of Western Sydney and the Institute of Australian Geographers in December 2011. Drawing on contemporary themes in economic geography around postcolonial theory and a concern with the histories of the sub-discipline, the symposium sought to triangulate these discourses using Raewyn Connell’s (2006, 2007a, 2007b) concept of ‘Southern Theory’ as a means of beg…
Growing discipline through total quality management in a New Zealand horticulture region
Globalization, Sustainability, and Apple Orcharding, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
The political economy of agriculture literature increasingly focuses research on production-consumption relations of different agro-food systems. This paper examines contextual pressures facing orchardists in the globally oriented apple complex of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The paper details the emerging political economy of orcharding in the crisis conditions of the 1990s under the joint influences of globalization forces, interest in sustainabil…
An Inter national Perspective on Developing Skills through Geography Programmes for Employability and Life: Narratives from New Zealand and the United States
If there is a universal question that most academic geographers have been asked by students, it is “What can I do with geography?”. We argue in this paper that an important dimension of quality improvement in geography education is closing the gap between the perceived social usefulness of the subject (suggested by evidence to be relatively low) and the realities of what a subject offers as preparation for workplace roles (rated on evidence as re…
Food and fibre production under capitalism: A Conceptual Agenda
Improving ecosystem service frameworks to address wicked problems
Davies, K. K., K. T. Fisher, M. E. Dickson, S. F. Thrush, and R. Le Heron. 2015. Improving ecosystem service frameworks to address wicked problems. Ecology and Society 20(2): 37. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07581-200237
Regional Economic Policy 'In-the-Making: Imaginaries, Political Projects and Institutions for Auckland's Economic Transformation
This paper explores the utility of investigating regional economic policy (REP) as constituted through the interplay of imaginaries, political projects, and institutional arrangements. It frames REP in process terms-as continually 'in-the-making' and emerging out of the intersecting trajectories of ideas, policy, individuals, and other resources. The empirical focus is economic governance in Auckland, New Zealand, in the years following the widel…
Food and fibre production under capitalism: A Conceptual Agenda
The Internationalisation of New Zealand Forestry Companies and the Social Reappraisal of New Zealand's Exotic Forest Resource
Industrial geographers are beginning to address country-specific changes in the wider setting of restructuring in the world economy. Developments in the New Zealand forestry sector are conceptualised as historically specific responses to structural processes, operating at global, national, and local scales. In this paper the changing state-economy relations associated with afforestation of exotic softwoods in New Zealand are examined, and forest …
A political economy perspective on the expansion of New Zealand livestock farming, 1960–1984 — Part II. Aggregate farmer responses — Evidence and policy implications
In the New Zealand government's indicative planning of national development in the 1960s and 1970s the nation's livestock industries (sheep/beef and dairying) were expected to make a major contribution to foreign exchange earnings. This paper focuses on aggregate farmer responses in the policy environment and the policy implications of information on changes in the nation's livestock system. Evidence on four matters is presented: (1) changes in n…
A political economy perspective on the expansion of New Zealand livestock farming, 1960–1984 — Part I. Agricultural policy
Policies and plans for rural people: An international perspective
Reglobalisation of New Zealand's food and fibre system: Organisational dimensions
Towards a Geography of Political Economy Perspective on Rural Change: The Example of New Zealand
In this paper it is argued that recent applications of the political economy perspective in wider social science have a strong relevance to the understanding of change in rural areas. In it is outlined what are seen as some of the main concepts needed to study economic, social, political and environmental change, and changes in the agricultural sector on which some contemporary rural areas, such as those in New Zealand continue to depend heavily.…
The rural state? Limits to planning in rural society
Capital, Labour and State Relations in the Analysis of Enterprises and Restructuring: An Australasian Debate
The paper arises out of the debate of a group of Australian and New Zealand geographers who attended a workshop in ‘Enterprises and Restructuring’ held in Canberra in September 1988. The paper outlines a framework for a political economy analysis of processes at the heart of economic restructuring and examines the units of analysis, concepts and approaches used by geographers bringing different philosophic positions to the investigation of econom…
New Zealand Agriculture and Changes in the Agriculture-Finance Relation during the 1980s
In the 1980s New Zealand agriculture was reinserted into the global economy by state policy which favoured global capital at the expense of other capital fractions. An important aspect to the latest internationalisation of agriculture are changes in the agriculture-finance relation, specifically the institutional arrangements through which capital is allocated to and appropriated from agriculture and agricultural processing. The developments in t…
The dairy industry. An international comparison
Fragmenting Societies? A Comparative Analysis of Regional and Urban Development
Preface, 1. Introduction, 2. The New International Division of Labour, The Restructuring and fragmentation of Capitalism, 3. Economic and Employment Changes, 4. The Nation State, 5. Regions and Bargaining Power, 6. Restructuring of State Provision: Case Studies of Change, 7. Home Ownership and Consumption Sectors, 8. Localities, 9. Re-assessment, Bibliography, Index
Pluriactivity: An exploration of issues with reference to New Zealand's livestock and fruit agro-commodity systems
The farm family business
Sustainability, corporate growers, regionalisation and Pacific‐Asia links in the Tasmanian and Hawkes Bay apple industries
This paper examines the differing modes of insertion of the Australian and New Zealand apple industries into world apple markets, part of the evolving global fresh fruit complex. It is argued that the mix and behaviours of key actors in the global apple industry are realigning market links and production systems. Industry actors in Australia and New Zealand are confronting issues of quality and sustainability as a result of pressures from consume…
The greening of agricultural policy in industrial societies. Swedish reforms in comparative perspectives
Family agriculture. Tradition and transformation
The Asian Pacific Rim and Globalization: Enterprise, Governance and Territoriality
Geographies of globalization industrialization policy and the role of the state - newly industrializing economies reinterpreting the miracle - regulation perspectives on post-1945 Japanese growth and crisis keeping their miracles going - questioning big firms in Korea and small firms in Taiwan Japanese structures - integrating state and corporate strategies integration through trade and direct investment - Asian Pacific patterns Japanese integrat…
Globalization, Sustainability, and Apple Orcharding, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
The political economy of agriculture literature increasingly focuses research on production-consumption relations of different agro-food systems. This paper examines contextual pressures facing orchardists in the globally oriented apple complex of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The paper details the emerging political economy of orcharding in the crisis conditions of the 1990s under the joint influences of globalization forces, interest in sustainabil…
Greening the Gatt, trade, environment and the future
European agriculture: Policies, production and trade
Growing discipline through total quality management in a New Zealand horticulture region
Sustaining the fruits of labour: A comparative localities analysis of the integrated fruit production programme in New Zealand's apple industry
Obituary: Keith Westhead Thomson CMG, MBE, 1924–1997
Making Fruitful Comparisons: Southern Hemisphere Producers and the Global Apple Industry
Apples along with bananas and oranges are major constituents of a global fresh fruit and vegetable complex (FFV). This paper adopts Philip McMichael's ideas of singular incorporated comparison within a food regimes framework as a means of examining the major Southern hemisphere apple exporting countries. A high level of differentiation among apple exporting countries is revealed in the way in which various producers are integrated into the global…
Geography (58 works) · Economics (51 works) · Political science (46 works) · Sociology (44 works) · Business (29 works) · Economic geography (22 works) · Politics (20 works) · Rural development and sustainability (20 works) · Ecology (18 works) · Social science (17 works)