Rachel Teen
Lecturer (teaching & admin) Freshwater Management
e. rachel.teen@canterbury.ac.nz
p. +64 3 369 0154
a. Room 424, Beatrice Tinsley,
University of Canterbury
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Lecturer Water Governance (post-graduate), Water Resource Management (undergraduate).
PhD (submitted) How do urban water managers strategise toward sustainability transitions?
Masters in Water Resource Management (Lincoln University)
Masters in Business Administration (University College Dublin)
Bachelor of Arts in Education (University of Canterbury)
My interest is in the ways institutions strategise and make decisions that drive (or inhibit) transitions toward more sustainable ways of managing water.
This is an exciting and challenging time to be teaching (and researching) about ways water system intersects with society. My past career experiences working in the private and public sectors motivate me to assist with systemic reforms and advance public policy.
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My research areas include urban water governance, sustainability transitions, institutional theories, and strategic practices within water management organisations.
Having recently submitted my PhD, I aim to continue my social and environmental sustainability research through investigating and documenting the motivations or inhibitions of urban strategists and decision-makers in settler-colonial cities. Understanding the social interconnections and socio-ecological connectivities that influence regime level motivations will assist to transition more rapidly toward more sustainable urban environments.
Publication:
Disruption as opportunity for transformation? Insights from water supply contamination in Havelock North, New Zealand (2020).Working papers:
Bosserrelle, A., and Teen, R., (in prep) Has guidance on coastal hazards and climate change in New Zealand been effective for local government?McNabb, T., and Teen, R., (in prep) Socio-cultural co-benefits of sustainable urban water management.
Teen, R. (in prep) Historic and contextual comparison of Australasian urban water environments.
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I have recently begun a short-term contract as a lecturer (teaching and admin) where I contribute to creating content for and delivery and assessment of the following Waterways papers:
WATR691 Water Science and Management Project