Lisa Langer

Scientist, Project Leader (Waste to Resource), and co-leader Design for Living Theme

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Qualifications

BForSc (Hons) University of Canterbury, NZ -1978

Research capabilities

Qualitative social research into community dialogue and public participation decision-making, particularly within biowaste management, community resilience and recovery following wildfires and biosecurity (pest incursion response).

Career highlights

  • Co-authored Closing the loop - rebuilding our soils with biowastes, successful FRST proposal for contestable funding, Environmental Resilience, Maintaining Environmental Integrity for Sustainable Resource Use (SRU) with ESR.
  • Scenario workshops for the community of Christchurch to design a future strategy for the management of Christchurch biosolids, and community dialogue in Little River, Banks Peninsula to bring a community voice into decision-making for future water, storm water, wastewater and biosolids management.
  • Community resilience and recovery lessons learned from case studies of fire affected communities, and fire danger communication.
  • Incursion response and the community study to evaluate community perspectives in the incursion response of the white spotted tussock moth, painted apple moth and Asian gypsy moth in Auckland and Hamilton, and to recommend integrated decision-making.

Selected papers

Goven, J., Langer, E.R. (2009). The potential of public engagement in sustainable waste management: Designing the future for biosolids in New Zealand. Journal of Environmental Management 90: 921-930.

Langer, L., Goven, J., Leckie, A., Ataria, J., Tremblay, L., Champeau, O., Pauling, C. (2008). Community dialogue for water and sewage management in a peri-urban/peri-rural community: research in progress. Pp. 93-96, in: Decentralised waste management. Proceedings of a conference hosted by the New Zealand Land Treatment Collective, 16-18 April, Queenstown, New Zealand.

Langer, E.R., Goven, J., Leckie, A., Ataria, J., Tremblay, L., Pauling, C. (2007). City-scale consultation drafts biosolids waste strategy. Australian Forest Grower, 30(2): 38-39. Winter edition. Published by Australian Forest Grower.

Graham, R., Langer, E.R. (2009). Overview of insurance issues in relation to rural fires. Scion, Rural Fire Research Group, Christchurch. Scion Client Report No.16182. 38 p.

Jakes, P.J., Langer, E.R. (2008). It takes more than a village—the importance of community to wildfire management. 15th Annual AFAC Fire Environment and Society from research into practice Conference, Conference papers, Adelaide, Australia, September, 2008: 208-212.

Langer, E.R., Kelly, L., Paton, D., Vokes, R. (2007). Wildland fires and community recovery in New Zealand: a research beginning. Extended abstracts from the Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA, 23-25 October 2007: 50-51.

Langer, E.R., Steward, G.A., Kimberley, M.O. (2008). Vegetation structure, composition and effect of pine plantation harvesting on riparian buffers in New Zealand. Forest Ecology and Management 256 (5): 949-957.