Hirini Matunga is a New Zealand
town planning academic and as of 2019 is a full professor at the
Lincoln University.[1] He has written on Māori tourism as well as indigenous thinking within the field of urban planning.
Academic career
With a degree in town planning from the
University of Auckland[2] Matunga had 25 years experience as a town planner before joining
Lincoln University as Director of the Centre for Maori and Indigenous Planning and Development.[1][3][4][5][6][7]
McIntosh*, Alison J., Frania Kanara Zygadlo, and Hirini Matunga. "Rethinking Maori tourism." Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research 9, no. 4 (2004): 331–352.
Matunga, Hirini. "Decolonising planning: The Treaty of Waitangi, the environment and a dual planning tradition." Environmental planning and management in New Zealand (2000): 36–47.
Dalziel, Paul, Hirini Matunga, and Caroline Saunders. "Cultural well-being and local government: Lessons from New Zealand." Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, The 12, no. 3 (2006): 267.
Zygadlo, F., Alison J. McIntosh, Hirini P. Matunga, John R. Fairweather, and David G. Simmons. "Maori tourism: concepts, characteristics and definition." (2003).