{"id":802,"name":"Gareth Moore-Jones","url":"","description":"Gareth has been involved in the sector for 30-years and has been CEO of NZ Recreation Assn, National Sport & Recreation Manager for NZ YMCA, interim CEO of Outdoors NZ, and as public health planner in the health sector which provided Gareth with evidence and passion for recreation as a core plank of community wellbeing. Gareth brings significant futures and trends analysis expertise with a focus on how emerging trends and issues will impact the ways community recreates, congregates and communicates with a focus on community wellbeing through recreation (spaces and places) and a Health in All Policies (HiAP) approach.\r\n\r\nGareth\u2019s consulting credentials include being a founding Director of three consultancies since 1999, and in 2012 Gareth founded Ideaus Ltd, a community futures consultancy that looks at probable, possible and preferred community futures specifically within the local government sector.\r\n\r\nGareth was a recipient of the \u2018Mark Mitchell Memorial Award\u2019 for \u2018excellence and outstanding personal contribution to the wider recreation industry\u2019. Gareth is also an Accredited Recreation Professional (ARPro).\r\n\r\nGareth has spoken nationally and internationally on recreation related topics including spontaneous urban activity spaces for youth, the future of the recreation industry and the opportunities provided by new technology and disruptive innovations. His abiding philosophy was summed by the foreword to Al Gore\u2019s book: \u2018My parents \u2013 they gave me a future, an abiding curiosity about what it holds and a sense of our common human obligation to help shape it\u2019","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/author\/garethmoore-jones\/","slug":"garethmoore-jones","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-24x24.webp","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-48x48.webp","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-96x96.jpg"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":33379,"full":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo.jpg","96":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-96x96.jpg","25":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-25x25.jpg","160":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-160x160.jpg","32":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-32x32.jpg","74":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-74x74.jpg","60":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-60x60.jpg","125":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-125x125.webp","24":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-24x24.webp","48":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-48x48.webp","250":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-250x250.webp","192":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gareth-Bio-Photo-192x192.webp"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}