Ralph Ngatata Love

Te Āti Awa

Ralph Love was born in the Hutt Valley and was educated at Wanganui East and Wellington College. He worked in industry for some sixteen to seventeen years in Wellington and studied part-time at Victoria as an adult student in Business Studies. In 1973 he was appointed to the Business Studies Department at Massey University. He is currently Dean of the Faculty of Business Studies and holds a Chair in the Faculty. He has written hundreds of reports and a lot of policy reports. He is Chairperson of Māori Reserve Lands in Palmerston North and Wellington and has worked closely with land issues since the 1970s in Te Ati Awa. Love has written seven books on energy. He wrote the introduction to Business in New Zealand published by Dunmore; this has had five or six editions. In the 1970s he wrote columns in Truth. Love has written numerous conference papers, including some on small business. His qualifications include: JP, BCom, BCA(Hons) and PhD.

Biographical sources

  • Interview with Love 19 Aug. 1992.

    Non-fiction

  • Management of Development Projects. Pergamon Policy Studies on Science and Technology. No further details.
  • Project Planning and Management. Pergamon Policy Studies on Science and Technology. No further details.
  • Biomass Energy Projects. No further details.
  • The Geothermal Energy Projects: Planning and Management. New York: Pergamon and East-West Center, Hawaii, 1980.
  • Co-edited by Love and Louis J. Goodman
  • "An Introduction to Small Hydroelectric Systems." Small Hydroelectric Projects for Rural Development: Planning and Management. Ed. Louis J. Goodman, John N. Hawkins, Ralph N. Love. New York: Pergamon. Published in cooperation with the East-West Center, Hawaii, 1981. 1-20.
  • Co-authors Louis J. Goodman, John N. Hawkins, Ralph N. Love. The authors provide a background to the development of hydroelectric power noting the hydropower potential around the world. They give descriptions of small hydro systems and multipurpose systems. They discuss the integrated project planning and management cycle for ‘observing and analysing the unifying process that constitutes the life of a development project.’
  • "New Zealand: Wairoa River Hydroelectric Project." Small Hydroelectric Projects for Rural Development: Planning and Management. Ed. Louis J. Goodman, John N. Hawkins, Ralph N. Love. New York: Pergamon. Published in cooperation with the East-West Center, Hawaii, 1981. 97-160.
  • Co-authors Charles A. Keith and Ralph N. Love. A detailed study of the first two stages of the Wairoa River hydroelectric project within the scope of the integrated project cycle.
  • "Policy and Research Issues." Small Hydroelectric Projects for Rural Development: Planning and Management. Ed. Louis J. Goodman, John N. Hawkins, Ralph N. Love. New York: Pergamon. Published in cooperation with the East-West Center, Hawaii, 1981. 184-194.
  • Co-authors Louis J. Goodman, John N. Hawkins, Ralph N. Love and Tetsuo Miyabara. The authors provide four case histories from the People’s Republic of China, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United States which ‘document the significance of small hydroelectric projects as viable sources of renewable alternated energy to reduce dependence on imported oil.’ The authors particularly note the governmental structures and policymaking procedures to combat energy shortfalls.
  • Small Hydroelectric Projects for Rural Development: Planning and Management. Ed. Louis J. Goodman, John N. Hawkins, Ralph N. Love. New York: Pergamon. Published in cooperation with the East-West Center, Hawaii, 1981.
  • The editors write that this publication is ‘an outgrowth of the renewed international interest in exploring alternative forms of energy’. The publication focuses on the dual problems of developing small hydroelectric energy sources in rural areas and of managing small hydroelectric power development projects. Some of the cases report on multiple uses of small hydro systems other than power, such as water supply, flood control, and irrigation of crops. They also analyse and discuss key policy and research issues of small hydro energy development.
  • "The New Alliance: Maaoridom and Industry." Ngaa Koorero O Te Hootoke: Ko Taa Te Māori Waahanga: Equity, Social Justice and Maaoridom. [Hamilton, N.Z.]: U of Waikato, Centre for Māori Studies and Research. Occasional Paper no. 30 Feb, 1986. 56-66.