| Specific areas of staff and postgraduate research are: |
| Environmental economics, e.g., non market valuation; choice modelling, fisheries economics, recreational economics, water resource allocation. Contact Department(s): Environmental Management; Economics and Finance. |
| Environmental engineering, e.g., irrigation, sustainable buildings, flood management. Contact Department(s): Environmental Management. |
| Environmental policy and planning, e.g., green planning, international policy, sustainable tourism, water resource management, energy, community based management, development theory and practice, co-management and participatory approaches, environmental monitoring, introduced animal management. Contact Department(s): Environmental Management; Social Science, Parks, Recreation, Tourism and Sport. |
| Landscape Architecture, e.g., sustainable design and urban form; design theory and critique; landscape ecology. Contact Department(s): School of Landscape Architecture. |
| Māori environmental policy, planning and design, e.g., Iwi resource management and planning. Contact Department(s): Centre for Māori and indigenous planning and development. |
| Transport studies, e.g., logistics, transport policy, sustainable transport design, alternative transport. Contact Department(s): Environmental Management. |
| Urban design and regional planning, e.g., implementation of the Resource Management Act, regional planning, Long Term Community Plans, consultative approaches, environmental law. Contact Department(s): Environmental Management. |