I hold a PhD from RMIT University and a Master of Environmental Studies from Victoria University of Wellington. I currently work as an independent research consultant and as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow based at the University of Waikato in the School of Social Sciences.
Qualifications:
2017 PhD, Global, Urban and Social Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
2013 Master of Environmental Studies (Distinction), Victoria University of Wellington.
2011 Bachelor of Arts in Geography, Victoria University of Wellington
Peer reviewed articles-
Cretney, R., & Nissen, S. 2023. What is generated through rupture? Dialogues in Human Geography.
Hanna, C., Cretney, R., & White, I. 2023. Re-Imagining Relationships with Space, Place, and Property: The Story of Mainstreaming Managed Retreats in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Planning Theory & Practice, 1–22
Cretney, R. & Nissen, S. 2022. Emergent spaces of emergency claims: Possibilities and contestation in a national climate emergency declaration. Antipode.
Munshi, D., Cretney, R., Kurian, P., Morrison, S. L., & Edwards, A. 2022. Culture and politics in overlapping frames for the future: Multi-dimensional activist organizing and communicating on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand. Organization.
White, I. & Cretney, R. 2022. From hope to disappointment? Following the ‘Taking Place’ and ‘Organisation’ of hope in ‘Building Back Better’ from COVID-19. Geoforum. 134. pp.154-164.
Barrett, P., Kurian, P., Cretney, R., Blackett, P., Le Heron, E., & Le Heron, R. 2022. Participatory processes and the evolution of environmental agendas in estuary restoration: The Maketū case. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1–13.
Kurian P., Munshi, D., Cretney, R., Morrison, S., & Kathlene, L. 2022. The cultural politics of climate change adaptation: An analysis of the tourism sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. Political Science. 73(2). pp.1–18.
Nissen, S. & Cretney, R. 2022. Retrofitting an emergency approach to the climate emergency: A study of two climate emergency declarations in Aotearoa New Zealand. Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space. 40(1).
Barrett, P., Cretney, R., Kurian P., & Simmonds, N. 2021. Shifting discourses of nature in participatory processes for environmental management, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration.
Barrett, P., Kurian, P., Simmonds, N. & Cretney, R. 2021. Explaining reflexive governance through discursive institutionalism: Estuarine restoration in Aotearoa New Zealand, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 23(3). pp.332-334.
Munshi, D., Kurian, P., Cretney, R., Morrison, S., & Kathlene, L. 2020. Centering culture in public engagement on climate change. Environmental Communication, 14:5, 573-581
Coffey, B., Bush, J., Mumaw, L., de Kleyn, L., Furlong, C., & Cretney, R. 2020. Towards good governance of urban greening: Insights from four initiatives in Melbourne, Australia. Australian Geographer, 1–16.
Cretney, R. 2019. ‘An opportunity to hope and dream’: Disaster Politics and the Emergence of Possibility through Community Led Recovery. Antipode. 51 (2), pp. 497-516.
Cretney, R. & Nissen, S. 2019. Climate politics ten years from Copenhagen: activism, emergencies, and possibilities. New Zealand Political Studies Association Women Talking Politics, pp. 15-20
Thomas, A, Cretney R, Hayward B. Student Strike 4 Climate: Justice, emergency and citizenship. New Zealand Geographer. 2019;1–5.
Barrett, P., Kurian, P., Simmonds, N., & Cretney, R. 2019. Community participation in the development of the Ōngātoro/Maketū estuary project: the socio-ecological dimensions of restoring an interconnected ecosystem. Aquatic Conservation.
Hagedorn, G., Kalmus, P., Mann, M., Vicca, S., Van den Berge, J., van Ypersele, J.P., Bourg, D., Rotmans, J., Kaaronen, R., Rahmstorf, S., Kromp-Kolb, H., Kirchengast, G., Knutti, R., Seneviratne, S., Thalmann, P., Cretney, R., Green, A., Anderson, K., Hedberg, M., Nilsson, D., Kuttner, A., and Hayhoe, K. 2019. Concerns of Young Protesters Are Justified. Science 364(6436):139.
Cretney, R. 2018. Beyond Public Meetings: Diverse forms of Community Led Recovery Following Disaster. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 28. pp.122-130.
Cretney, R. 2017. Towards a Critical Geography of Disaster Recovery Politics: Perspectives on crisis and hope. Geography Compass. 11 (1), pp. 1-11.
Cretney, R. & Bond, S. 2017. Shifting Relationships to Place: A relational place based perspective on SES resilience. Urban Geography. 38 (2), pp. 8-24.
Cretney, R. 2016. Local Responses to Disaster: The value of community-led post-disaster response action in a resilience framework. Disaster Prevention and Management. 25(1), pp. 27-40.
Cretney, R, Thomas, A & Bond, S. 2016. Maintaining Grassroots Activism: Transition Towns in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Geographer. 72(2), pp. 81-91.
Cretney R. 2014. Resilience for whom? Emerging critical geographies of socio-ecological resilience. Geography Compass. 8/9, pp. 627-640.
Cretney, R. & Bond, S. 2014. Bouncing Back to Capitalism? Grassroots autonomous activism in shaping discourses of resilience and transformation following disaster. Resilience. 2:1, pp.18-31.
Book chapters-
Kurian, P., Cretney, R., Munshi D. & Morrison, S. 2022. Social movements and the environment IN Environmental Politics and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Julie MacArthur & Maria Bargh (eds.). Auckland University Press.
Uekusa, S. & Cretney, R. 2022. Rethinking Community Resilience: Critical Reflections on the Last 10 Years of the Ōtautahi Christchurch Recovery and On-Going Disasters
Hayward, B. & Cretney, R. 2021. Governing through disasters IN Aotearoa Government and Politics 7th Edition. Janine Hayward (ed). Oxford University Press
Cretney, R. 2020. Beyond emergency: The political possibilities of critical hope IN Children, Citizenship and the Environment #SchoolStrike Edition. Bronwyn Hayward. Routledge, New York, pp.94-97
Cretney, R. 2018. Rejecting and Recreating Resilience after Disaster IN The Resilience Machine. Simin Davoudi, Jim Bohland & Paul Knox (eds). Routledge, pp. 80-93
Cretney, R. and Bond, S. 2016. ‘Bouncing Back to Capitalism?’ IN The Routledge International Handbook of Resilience. David Chandler & Jon Coaffee (eds). Routledge, New York, pp. 279-290
Hayward, B., and Cretney, R., 2015. Governing Through Disaster IN New Zealand Government and Politics 6th Edition. Janine Hayward (ed). Oxford University Press, pp. 403-413
Reports-
Cretney, R., Kurian, P., Munshi, D., & Morrison, S. 2021. From Petitions to Rebellion: Diverse forms of activism and discourses of political change in the Aotearoa New Zealand climate movement. Research Report. University of Waikato.
Cretney, R., Kurian, P., Munshi, D., & Morrison, S. 2021. From Petitions to Rebellion: A Timeline of Activism focussed on Climate Issues. Research Report. University of Waikato. Available here.
Munshi, D., Kurian, P., Morrison, S., Kathlene, L., & Cretney, R. 2020. Centring culture in public engagement on climate change adaptation: Re-shaping the future of the NZ tourism sector. A report to the Deep South National Science Challenge. Hamilton: University of Waikato & Deep South National Science Challenge.
Munshi, D., Kurian, P., Morrison, S., Kathlene, L., Cretney, R., & Doo, M. 2018. Climate Change Adaptation in the Aotearoa New Zealand Tourism Sector: Report of a Cross-Sector Engagement Session. Hamilton: University of Waikato.
Popular articles-
Cretney, R., Hanna, C. & White, I. 2023 Who moves and who pays? Managed retreat is hard, but lessons from the past can guide us. The Conversation & Newsroom, February.
Hall, D., Cretney, R., & Nissen, S. 2020 By declaring a climate emergency Jacinda Ardern needs to inspire hope, not fear. The Conversation & Stuff.co.nz, December.
Cretney, R. 2019. What will this climate emergency look like? Overland Literary Journal, May.
Cretney, R. 2019. Navigating hope through crisis: Disaster and a politics of possibility. Resilience, Post Carbon Institute. March.
Cretney, R. 2018. A year of bad news for the planet (and us). The Spinoff, December.
Cretney, R. 2016. Christchurch five years on: have politicians helped or hindered the earthquake recovery? The Conversation and SBS News, February.
Cretney, R. 2015. Mapping the Transition Movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Blog Post for the Transition Network.
Media coverage-
Cyclone taskforce will tackle managed retreat – Expert reaction. Science Media Centre New Zealand. March 2023
Climate emergency declarations can come with tensions, study finds. NZ Herald. July 2021
Analysis: What does declaring a ‘climate emergency’ actually do? NZ Herald. December 2020.
Climate Change a ‘potentially devastating’ risk to the tourism sector. Stuff.co.nz. February 2020.
Student-led climate strikes – Expert reaction. Science Media Centre New Zealand. March 2019.
‘Show us how it’s done’ – 22 leading NZ academics who back the School Strike 4 Climate. NZ Herald. March 2019.
Students, supporters converge on central Hamilton calling for climate action. Waikato Times. March 2019.
Christchurch Five Years On. Radio Interview. 2SER Sydney, February 2016.
Qualifications:
2017 PhD, Global, Urban and Social Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
2013 Master of Environmental Studies (Distinction), Victoria University of Wellington.
2011 Bachelor of Arts in Geography, Victoria University of Wellington
Peer reviewed articles-
Cretney, R., & Nissen, S. 2023. What is generated through rupture? Dialogues in Human Geography.
Hanna, C., Cretney, R., & White, I. 2023. Re-Imagining Relationships with Space, Place, and Property: The Story of Mainstreaming Managed Retreats in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Planning Theory & Practice, 1–22
Cretney, R. & Nissen, S. 2022. Emergent spaces of emergency claims: Possibilities and contestation in a national climate emergency declaration. Antipode.
Munshi, D., Cretney, R., Kurian, P., Morrison, S. L., & Edwards, A. 2022. Culture and politics in overlapping frames for the future: Multi-dimensional activist organizing and communicating on climate change in Aotearoa New Zealand. Organization.
White, I. & Cretney, R. 2022. From hope to disappointment? Following the ‘Taking Place’ and ‘Organisation’ of hope in ‘Building Back Better’ from COVID-19. Geoforum. 134. pp.154-164.
Barrett, P., Kurian, P., Cretney, R., Blackett, P., Le Heron, E., & Le Heron, R. 2022. Participatory processes and the evolution of environmental agendas in estuary restoration: The Maketū case. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1–13.
Kurian P., Munshi, D., Cretney, R., Morrison, S., & Kathlene, L. 2022. The cultural politics of climate change adaptation: An analysis of the tourism sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. Political Science. 73(2). pp.1–18.
Nissen, S. & Cretney, R. 2022. Retrofitting an emergency approach to the climate emergency: A study of two climate emergency declarations in Aotearoa New Zealand. Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space. 40(1).
Barrett, P., Cretney, R., Kurian P., & Simmonds, N. 2021. Shifting discourses of nature in participatory processes for environmental management, Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration.
Barrett, P., Kurian, P., Simmonds, N. & Cretney, R. 2021. Explaining reflexive governance through discursive institutionalism: Estuarine restoration in Aotearoa New Zealand, Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 23(3). pp.332-334.
Munshi, D., Kurian, P., Cretney, R., Morrison, S., & Kathlene, L. 2020. Centering culture in public engagement on climate change. Environmental Communication, 14:5, 573-581
Coffey, B., Bush, J., Mumaw, L., de Kleyn, L., Furlong, C., & Cretney, R. 2020. Towards good governance of urban greening: Insights from four initiatives in Melbourne, Australia. Australian Geographer, 1–16.
Cretney, R. 2019. ‘An opportunity to hope and dream’: Disaster Politics and the Emergence of Possibility through Community Led Recovery. Antipode. 51 (2), pp. 497-516.
Cretney, R. & Nissen, S. 2019. Climate politics ten years from Copenhagen: activism, emergencies, and possibilities. New Zealand Political Studies Association Women Talking Politics, pp. 15-20
Thomas, A, Cretney R, Hayward B. Student Strike 4 Climate: Justice, emergency and citizenship. New Zealand Geographer. 2019;1–5.
Barrett, P., Kurian, P., Simmonds, N., & Cretney, R. 2019. Community participation in the development of the Ōngātoro/Maketū estuary project: the socio-ecological dimensions of restoring an interconnected ecosystem. Aquatic Conservation.
Hagedorn, G., Kalmus, P., Mann, M., Vicca, S., Van den Berge, J., van Ypersele, J.P., Bourg, D., Rotmans, J., Kaaronen, R., Rahmstorf, S., Kromp-Kolb, H., Kirchengast, G., Knutti, R., Seneviratne, S., Thalmann, P., Cretney, R., Green, A., Anderson, K., Hedberg, M., Nilsson, D., Kuttner, A., and Hayhoe, K. 2019. Concerns of Young Protesters Are Justified. Science 364(6436):139.
Cretney, R. 2018. Beyond Public Meetings: Diverse forms of Community Led Recovery Following Disaster. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 28. pp.122-130.
Cretney, R. 2017. Towards a Critical Geography of Disaster Recovery Politics: Perspectives on crisis and hope. Geography Compass. 11 (1), pp. 1-11.
Cretney, R. & Bond, S. 2017. Shifting Relationships to Place: A relational place based perspective on SES resilience. Urban Geography. 38 (2), pp. 8-24.
Cretney, R. 2016. Local Responses to Disaster: The value of community-led post-disaster response action in a resilience framework. Disaster Prevention and Management. 25(1), pp. 27-40.
Cretney, R, Thomas, A & Bond, S. 2016. Maintaining Grassroots Activism: Transition Towns in Aotearoa New Zealand. New Zealand Geographer. 72(2), pp. 81-91.
Cretney R. 2014. Resilience for whom? Emerging critical geographies of socio-ecological resilience. Geography Compass. 8/9, pp. 627-640.
Cretney, R. & Bond, S. 2014. Bouncing Back to Capitalism? Grassroots autonomous activism in shaping discourses of resilience and transformation following disaster. Resilience. 2:1, pp.18-31.
Book chapters-
Kurian, P., Cretney, R., Munshi D. & Morrison, S. 2022. Social movements and the environment IN Environmental Politics and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Julie MacArthur & Maria Bargh (eds.). Auckland University Press.
Uekusa, S. & Cretney, R. 2022. Rethinking Community Resilience: Critical Reflections on the Last 10 Years of the Ōtautahi Christchurch Recovery and On-Going Disasters
Hayward, B. & Cretney, R. 2021. Governing through disasters IN Aotearoa Government and Politics 7th Edition. Janine Hayward (ed). Oxford University Press
Cretney, R. 2020. Beyond emergency: The political possibilities of critical hope IN Children, Citizenship and the Environment #SchoolStrike Edition. Bronwyn Hayward. Routledge, New York, pp.94-97
Cretney, R. 2018. Rejecting and Recreating Resilience after Disaster IN The Resilience Machine. Simin Davoudi, Jim Bohland & Paul Knox (eds). Routledge, pp. 80-93
Cretney, R. and Bond, S. 2016. ‘Bouncing Back to Capitalism?’ IN The Routledge International Handbook of Resilience. David Chandler & Jon Coaffee (eds). Routledge, New York, pp. 279-290
Hayward, B., and Cretney, R., 2015. Governing Through Disaster IN New Zealand Government and Politics 6th Edition. Janine Hayward (ed). Oxford University Press, pp. 403-413
Reports-
Cretney, R., Kurian, P., Munshi, D., & Morrison, S. 2021. From Petitions to Rebellion: Diverse forms of activism and discourses of political change in the Aotearoa New Zealand climate movement. Research Report. University of Waikato.
Cretney, R., Kurian, P., Munshi, D., & Morrison, S. 2021. From Petitions to Rebellion: A Timeline of Activism focussed on Climate Issues. Research Report. University of Waikato. Available here.
Munshi, D., Kurian, P., Morrison, S., Kathlene, L., & Cretney, R. 2020. Centring culture in public engagement on climate change adaptation: Re-shaping the future of the NZ tourism sector. A report to the Deep South National Science Challenge. Hamilton: University of Waikato & Deep South National Science Challenge.
Munshi, D., Kurian, P., Morrison, S., Kathlene, L., Cretney, R., & Doo, M. 2018. Climate Change Adaptation in the Aotearoa New Zealand Tourism Sector: Report of a Cross-Sector Engagement Session. Hamilton: University of Waikato.
Popular articles-
Cretney, R., Hanna, C. & White, I. 2023 Who moves and who pays? Managed retreat is hard, but lessons from the past can guide us. The Conversation & Newsroom, February.
Hall, D., Cretney, R., & Nissen, S. 2020 By declaring a climate emergency Jacinda Ardern needs to inspire hope, not fear. The Conversation & Stuff.co.nz, December.
Cretney, R. 2019. What will this climate emergency look like? Overland Literary Journal, May.
Cretney, R. 2019. Navigating hope through crisis: Disaster and a politics of possibility. Resilience, Post Carbon Institute. March.
Cretney, R. 2018. A year of bad news for the planet (and us). The Spinoff, December.
Cretney, R. 2016. Christchurch five years on: have politicians helped or hindered the earthquake recovery? The Conversation and SBS News, February.
Cretney, R. 2015. Mapping the Transition Movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Blog Post for the Transition Network.
Media coverage-
Cyclone taskforce will tackle managed retreat – Expert reaction. Science Media Centre New Zealand. March 2023
Climate emergency declarations can come with tensions, study finds. NZ Herald. July 2021
Analysis: What does declaring a ‘climate emergency’ actually do? NZ Herald. December 2020.
Climate Change a ‘potentially devastating’ risk to the tourism sector. Stuff.co.nz. February 2020.
Student-led climate strikes – Expert reaction. Science Media Centre New Zealand. March 2019.
‘Show us how it’s done’ – 22 leading NZ academics who back the School Strike 4 Climate. NZ Herald. March 2019.
Students, supporters converge on central Hamilton calling for climate action. Waikato Times. March 2019.
Christchurch Five Years On. Radio Interview. 2SER Sydney, February 2016.