Ralph Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3776445 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ralph Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ralph |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3437-8525 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 26 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A Scoping Review
The role of public housing in improving wellbeing for tenants and society is an important public policy issue. Public housing tenants in Aotearoa New Zealand have constrained incomes and their mode of transport has implications for their budgets, their wellbeing, and carbon emissions. Tenants’ daily life choices and wellbeing are influenced by the set of transport options available to them and the constraints and opportunities these options entai…
Travel Behaviour and Carbon Emissions of Residents of Public Housing Areas in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Public housing tenants in many countries have multiple challenges, often including socioeconomic disadvantage, family health and disability limitations, and compromised potential to earn income. An understanding of this group’s travel behaviours is particularly salient when policies to limit carbon emissions are being considered because such policies can exacerbate transport inequities. The current study makes use of an ongoing national travel su…
Resolution and resistance
Climate Belief and Issue Salience
Does reframing urban policy around wellbeing support carbon mitigation
New Zealand (‘Aotearoa’) is a highly urbanised country with one of the first governments in the world to adopt a wellbeing budget framework. That framework, in combination with the architecture for decarbonisation provided by New Zealand’s 2019 ‘Zero Carbon’ Act, means there are now institutional and policy incentives in place, and developing incrementally, to combine the pursuit of wellbeing and decarbonisation. These incentives also align with …
To what extent do interest group messages shape the public’s climate change policy preferences
Public opinion on climate change
Climate policy across the developed world remains inadequate, despite high levels of concern about climate change among the public. Yet public opinion on climate change is complex, with individuals differing on three key opinion dimensions: belief and concern, issue salience, and support for government action. In this study, we investigate how these dimensions intersect at the individual level. Based on data from an online survey conducted in 201…
A Cost Benefit Analysis of an Active Travel Intervention with Health and Carbon Emission Reduction Benefits
Active travel (walking and cycling) is beneficial for people’s health and has many co-benefits, such as reducing motor vehicle congestion and pollution in urban areas. There have been few robust evaluations of active travel, and very few studies have valued health and emissions outcomes. The ACTIVE before-and-after quasi-experimental study estimated the net benefits of health and other outcomes from New Zealand’s Model Communities Programme using…
How Economic Analysis Can Contribute to Understanding the Links between Housing and Health
An economic analysis of housing's linkages to health can assist policy makers and researchers to make better decisions about which housing interventions and policies are the most cost-beneficial. The challenge is to include cobenefits. The adoption in 2015 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals underscores the importance of understanding how policies interact, and the merit of comprehensively evaluating cobenefits. We explain our approach to the…
Investigating recruitment and completion mode biases in online and door to door electronic surveys
Electronically assisted survey techniques offer several advantages over traditional survey techniques. However, they can also potentially introduce biases, such as coverage biases and measurement error. The current study compares the relative merits of two survey distribution and completion modes: email recruitment with internet completion; and door to door recruitment with either tablet or internet completion. Presentation mode is held constant …
Streamlining urban housing development
New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, is currently facing a housing affordability crisis. Policy makers have attempted to address housing supply issues by creating Special Housing Areas (SHAs), intended to streamline consent processes and fast-track development. SHAs are predicted to accommodate around 40,000 additional dwellings over 10 or more years. This study evaluates the impact of the SHAs on measures of environmental sustainability. Using …
Increasing active travel
BACKGROUND: There is increased interest in the effectiveness and co-benefits of measures to promote walking and cycling, including health gains from increased physical activity and reductions in fossil fuel use and vehicle emissions. This paper analyses the changes in walking and cycling in two New Zealand cities that accompanied public investment in infrastructure married with programmes to encourage active travel. METHOD: Using a quasi-experime…
Renewable energy leapfrogging in China's urban development? Current status and outlook
Increasing active travel
This multidisciplinary study provides a strong design for evaluating an intervention to increase walking and cycling in a developed country with relatively low baseline levels of active travel. Its strengths include the use of data from control cities as well as intervention cities, an extended evaluation period with a reasonable response rate from a random community survey and the availability of instrumental variables for sensitivity analyses
Warm homes for older people
The clinical trial registration is http://NCT01627418
Valuing social housing needs to take a broader view
Tenements were viewed as plague houses in nineteenth century industrial cities such as Glasgow, London, New York and Berlin. Replacing the tenements with social housing was seen as a key marker of social progress in the late 19th and 20th centuries. But as austerity budgets have spread across national and local governments in the 21st century, public expenditure on social housing, like other collective services, is not necessarily protected. Yet …
Tackling cold housing and fuel poverty in New Zealand
Health co-benefits from housing-related policies
Climate change, powerlessness and the commons dilemma
Retrofitting houses with insulation
BACKGROUND: Housing is an important environmental influence on population health, and there is growing evidence of health effects from indoor environment characteristics such as low indoor temperatures. However, there is relatively little research, and thus little firm guidance, on the cost-effectiveness of public policies to retrospectively improve the standards of houses. The purpose of this study was to value the health, energy and environment…
Transitioning to Low-Carbon Urban Form and Transport in New Zealand
There is a growing sense of urgency internationally about cutting greenhouse gas emissions. If New Zealand is to continue to position itself as a truly sustainable nation, it will need to take radical and effective steps to reduce its transport-related carbon dioxide emissions. Even if New Zealand were not to take early action, it is likely that it would come under strong international pressure to stay in step with progressive countries. The gove…
Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether insulating existing houses increases indoor temperatures and improves occupants' health and wellbeing. DESIGN: Community based, cluster, single blinded randomised study. SETTING: Seven low income communities in New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: 1350 households containing 4407 participants. INTERVENTION: Installation of a standard retrofit insulation package. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Indoor temperature and relative humidity,…
Accountability
The outcome of the Symposium reported in AJPA 58(1) is said by the convenors to be that there are many different kinds of accountability and that there may be clashes between them. This paper suggests one possible reason is that the Westminster label hides the potential tensions between the increasing demands for accountability, more responsiveness and responsibility, the new public management and the institutional framework. Everyone wishes to c…
Federalism
Journal Article Federalism Get access Federalism. Edited by Graham Smith. London: Longman. 1995. 314pp. Index. £38.00; ISBN 0 582 22579 5. Pb.: £16.99; ISBN 0 582 22578 7. Ralph Chapman Ralph Chapman 1University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 555–556, https://doi.org/10.2307/2625559 Published: 01 July 1996
Studying the States
The Bannon Decade: The Politics of Restraint in South Australia. Edited by A ndrew P arkin & A llan P atience Trials in Power: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982–1992. Edited by M ark C onsidine & B rian C ostar Keeping them Honest: Democratic Reform in Queensland. Edited by A ndrew H ede , S cott P rasser & M ark N eylan The Tasmanian Parliamentary Accord & Public Policy: Accommodating the new politics? Edited by M arcus H award & P eter L armour Af…
Climate change, powerlessness and the commons dilemma
Climate Belief and Issue Salience
Public opinion on climate change
Climate policy across the developed world remains inadequate, despite high levels of concern about climate change among the public. Yet public opinion on climate change is complex, with individuals differing on three key opinion dimensions: belief and concern, issue salience, and support for government action. In this study, we investigate how these dimensions intersect at the individual level. Based on data from an online survey conducted in 201…
Retrofitting houses with insulation
BACKGROUND: Housing is an important environmental influence on population health, and there is growing evidence of health effects from indoor environment characteristics such as low indoor temperatures. However, there is relatively little research, and thus little firm guidance, on the cost-effectiveness of public policies to retrospectively improve the standards of houses. The purpose of this study was to value the health, energy and environment…
Investigating recruitment and completion mode biases in online and door to door electronic surveys
Electronically assisted survey techniques offer several advantages over traditional survey techniques. However, they can also potentially introduce biases, such as coverage biases and measurement error. The current study compares the relative merits of two survey distribution and completion modes: email recruitment with internet completion; and door to door recruitment with either tablet or internet completion. Presentation mode is held constant …
Health co-benefits from housing-related policies
Resolution and resistance
Streamlining urban housing development
New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, is currently facing a housing affordability crisis. Policy makers have attempted to address housing supply issues by creating Special Housing Areas (SHAs), intended to streamline consent processes and fast-track development. SHAs are predicted to accommodate around 40,000 additional dwellings over 10 or more years. This study evaluates the impact of the SHAs on measures of environmental sustainability. Using …
Transitioning to Low-Carbon Urban Form and Transport in New Zealand
There is a growing sense of urgency internationally about cutting greenhouse gas emissions. If New Zealand is to continue to position itself as a truly sustainable nation, it will need to take radical and effective steps to reduce its transport-related carbon dioxide emissions. Even if New Zealand were not to take early action, it is likely that it would come under strong international pressure to stay in step with progressive countries. The gove…
Does reframing urban policy around wellbeing support carbon mitigation
New Zealand (‘Aotearoa’) is a highly urbanised country with one of the first governments in the world to adopt a wellbeing budget framework. That framework, in combination with the architecture for decarbonisation provided by New Zealand’s 2019 ‘Zero Carbon’ Act, means there are now institutional and policy incentives in place, and developing incrementally, to combine the pursuit of wellbeing and decarbonisation. These incentives also align with …
Accountability
The outcome of the Symposium reported in AJPA 58(1) is said by the convenors to be that there are many different kinds of accountability and that there may be clashes between them. This paper suggests one possible reason is that the Westminster label hides the potential tensions between the increasing demands for accountability, more responsiveness and responsibility, the new public management and the institutional framework. Everyone wishes to c…
The Tasmanian Public Service and the Future
State governments in Australia have been regarded essentially as service deliverers, with the result that the specialist heads of public organizations, although technically competent, have rarely questioned the need for their activities. Nor does the argument that such questioning is the responsibility of the politician take account of the inertia of the existing system; an analysis of the activities which the Tasmanian government has undertaken …
Studying the States
The Bannon Decade: The Politics of Restraint in South Australia. Edited by A ndrew P arkin & A llan P atience Trials in Power: Cain, Kirner and Victoria 1982–1992. Edited by M ark C onsidine & B rian C ostar Keeping them Honest: Democratic Reform in Queensland. Edited by A ndrew H ede , S cott P rasser & M ark N eylan The Tasmanian Parliamentary Accord & Public Policy: Accommodating the new politics? Edited by M arcus H award & P eter L armour Af…
Federalism
Journal Article Federalism Get access Federalism. Edited by Graham Smith. London: Longman. 1995. 314pp. Index. £38.00; ISBN 0 582 22579 5. Pb.: £16.99; ISBN 0 582 22578 7. Ralph Chapman Ralph Chapman 1University of Tasmania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 1996, Pages 555–556, https://doi.org/10.2307/2625559 Published: 01 July 1996
Accountability
The outcome of the Symposium reported in AJPA 58(1) is said by the convenors to be that there are many different kinds of accountability and that there may be clashes between them. This paper suggests one possible reason is that the Westminster label hides the potential tensions between the increasing demands for accountability, more responsiveness and responsibility, the new public management and the institutional framework. Everyone wishes to c…
Effect of insulating existing houses on health inequality
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether insulating existing houses increases indoor temperatures and improves occupants' health and wellbeing. DESIGN: Community based, cluster, single blinded randomised study. SETTING: Seven low income communities in New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS: 1350 households containing 4407 participants. INTERVENTION: Installation of a standard retrofit insulation package. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Indoor temperature and relative humidity,…
Transitioning to Low-Carbon Urban Form and Transport in New Zealand
There is a growing sense of urgency internationally about cutting greenhouse gas emissions. If New Zealand is to continue to position itself as a truly sustainable nation, it will need to take radical and effective steps to reduce its transport-related carbon dioxide emissions. Even if New Zealand were not to take early action, it is likely that it would come under strong international pressure to stay in step with progressive countries. The gove…
Retrofitting houses with insulation
BACKGROUND: Housing is an important environmental influence on population health, and there is growing evidence of health effects from indoor environment characteristics such as low indoor temperatures. However, there is relatively little research, and thus little firm guidance, on the cost-effectiveness of public policies to retrospectively improve the standards of houses. The purpose of this study was to value the health, energy and environment…
Climate change, powerlessness and the commons dilemma
Tackling cold housing and fuel poverty in New Zealand
Health co-benefits from housing-related policies
Warm homes for older people
The clinical trial registration is http://NCT01627418
Valuing social housing needs to take a broader view
Tenements were viewed as plague houses in nineteenth century industrial cities such as Glasgow, London, New York and Berlin. Replacing the tenements with social housing was seen as a key marker of social progress in the late 19th and 20th centuries. But as austerity budgets have spread across national and local governments in the 21st century, public expenditure on social housing, like other collective services, is not necessarily protected. Yet …
Renewable energy leapfrogging in China's urban development? Current status and outlook
Increasing active travel
This multidisciplinary study provides a strong design for evaluating an intervention to increase walking and cycling in a developed country with relatively low baseline levels of active travel. Its strengths include the use of data from control cities as well as intervention cities, an extended evaluation period with a reasonable response rate from a random community survey and the availability of instrumental variables for sensitivity analyses
Increasing active travel
BACKGROUND: There is increased interest in the effectiveness and co-benefits of measures to promote walking and cycling, including health gains from increased physical activity and reductions in fossil fuel use and vehicle emissions. This paper analyses the changes in walking and cycling in two New Zealand cities that accompanied public investment in infrastructure married with programmes to encourage active travel. METHOD: Using a quasi-experime…
Streamlining urban housing development
New Zealand's largest city, Auckland, is currently facing a housing affordability crisis. Policy makers have attempted to address housing supply issues by creating Special Housing Areas (SHAs), intended to streamline consent processes and fast-track development. SHAs are predicted to accommodate around 40,000 additional dwellings over 10 or more years. This study evaluates the impact of the SHAs on measures of environmental sustainability. Using …
How Economic Analysis Can Contribute to Understanding the Links between Housing and Health
An economic analysis of housing's linkages to health can assist policy makers and researchers to make better decisions about which housing interventions and policies are the most cost-beneficial. The challenge is to include cobenefits. The adoption in 2015 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals underscores the importance of understanding how policies interact, and the merit of comprehensively evaluating cobenefits. We explain our approach to the…
Investigating recruitment and completion mode biases in online and door to door electronic surveys
Electronically assisted survey techniques offer several advantages over traditional survey techniques. However, they can also potentially introduce biases, such as coverage biases and measurement error. The current study compares the relative merits of two survey distribution and completion modes: email recruitment with internet completion; and door to door recruitment with either tablet or internet completion. Presentation mode is held constant …
A Cost Benefit Analysis of an Active Travel Intervention with Health and Carbon Emission Reduction Benefits
Active travel (walking and cycling) is beneficial for people’s health and has many co-benefits, such as reducing motor vehicle congestion and pollution in urban areas. There have been few robust evaluations of active travel, and very few studies have valued health and emissions outcomes. The ACTIVE before-and-after quasi-experimental study estimated the net benefits of health and other outcomes from New Zealand’s Model Communities Programme using…
Public opinion on climate change
Climate policy across the developed world remains inadequate, despite high levels of concern about climate change among the public. Yet public opinion on climate change is complex, with individuals differing on three key opinion dimensions: belief and concern, issue salience, and support for government action. In this study, we investigate how these dimensions intersect at the individual level. Based on data from an online survey conducted in 201…
To what extent do interest group messages shape the public’s climate change policy preferences
Does reframing urban policy around wellbeing support carbon mitigation
New Zealand (‘Aotearoa’) is a highly urbanised country with one of the first governments in the world to adopt a wellbeing budget framework. That framework, in combination with the architecture for decarbonisation provided by New Zealand’s 2019 ‘Zero Carbon’ Act, means there are now institutional and policy incentives in place, and developing incrementally, to combine the pursuit of wellbeing and decarbonisation. These incentives also align with …
Climate Belief and Issue Salience
Transport and Wellbeing of Public Housing Tenants—A Scoping Review
The role of public housing in improving wellbeing for tenants and society is an important public policy issue. Public housing tenants in Aotearoa New Zealand have constrained incomes and their mode of transport has implications for their budgets, their wellbeing, and carbon emissions. Tenants’ daily life choices and wellbeing are influenced by the set of transport options available to them and the constraints and opportunities these options entai…
Travel Behaviour and Carbon Emissions of Residents of Public Housing Areas in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Public housing tenants in many countries have multiple challenges, often including socioeconomic disadvantage, family health and disability limitations, and compromised potential to earn income. An understanding of this group’s travel behaviours is particularly salient when policies to limit carbon emissions are being considered because such policies can exacerbate transport inequities. The current study makes use of an ongoing national travel su…
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