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| Name 3 policy dichotomies in NZ. |
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1. Small is beautiful v. Think Big
2. National planning v. regional planning
3. Old left v. new right |
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| Name 3 arguments against industrial protection. |
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1. Drives up prices
2. less consumer choice
3. Doesn't encourage export to developing nations |
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| Name 2 characteristics of think big. |
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1. Large industrial energy developments
2. Capital intensive. |
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| Name 3 characteristics for industrial protection. |
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1. it conserves foreign exchange
2. employment
3. the factor share |
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| Why was the industrial sector described as the worst affected by neoliberal reforms? |
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Definition
| because it suffered the most job losses. |
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| Which change in the transport industry created the largest increase to GHG emissions? |
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| Massive increase in cars, trucks and vans. |
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| Why does wgnt make better use of it's PT than Auck? |
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Definition
| Concentration of employment and the three well established corridors. |
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| What was the major policy mechanism responsible for the end of many railways in NZ? |
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| The end of the 150km road freight restrictions? |
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| What was the major irony of the privatisation of the air and rail networks in NZ? |
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| they were both bough re-nationalised. |
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| Name two major influences on the NZ train network. |
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Definition
1. Geology
2. Public preception |
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| What is the EEZ? And why is it significant to NZ? |
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| Economic exclusive zone, and because it is one of the largest in the world. |
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| What is the maori name for Mt Cook? |
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| Where is the Faveaux Straight? |
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| Between Stuart Island and the South Island. |
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| Name NZ's largest national park. |
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| What two Mts boarder the Tongariro Crossing? |
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| Mt Tongarirp and Mt Ngarahoe |
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| Name the coal mine that had NZ's most recent mining tradgety and the NP it is in. |
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| Name the two main lakes in Nelson Lakes NP. |
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| Lakes Rotoiti and Rotoroa |
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| Where do these tracks start and finish? Heaphy and routbourne. |
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H. Karamea to Collingwood
R. Milford sound to Queenstown |
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| Name three mountain ranges in the eastern spine of the Nth Island. |
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1. Tararuas
2. Orongorongos
3. Rumatakas |
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| Name two significant island bird sanctuaries. |
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