The Leave No Trace programme internationally is founded on scientific research. We are beginning the task of collating the research that has been done on minimimum impact travel and environmental care in New Zealand and challenging some of the assumptions we have with an international context. Click through on the principals below for links and references to relevant research.  This page has been put together by Chris North from the University of Canterbury with Jamie Stewart.  To make us aware of other research that is not covered here please contact chris.north(at)canterbury.ac.nz

Also for more general reading please look here for research into Leave No Trace programmes or environmental care or here for a collection of our favourite readings on the themes of New Zealand, environmental care and ecology.