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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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Technical Report
Indicators in the NZ Sustainability Dashboard: An Overview of their Structure and Application
This report outlines the concept and structure of the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard (NZSD), describes the NZSD sustainability indicators framework and details how the individual…
Video
Local food systems: Nate Smith of Gravity Fishing from Stewart Island, NZ
Meet an NZ food system innovator, Nate Smith of Gravity Fishing. A small-scale local fisher, who catches to order and sells direct to anyone in…
Journal Article
Changes in soil cadmium concentrations with time following cessation of phosphorus fertilizer inputs
Cadmium (Cd) can accumulate in soil from the application of phosphorus fertilizer. However, there is little information on what happens to soil Cd concentrations when…
Technical Report
Modelling impacts of agriculture on freshwater
In the last decade, the UNEP-SETAC working group (WULCA) established a framework to assess water consumption in life-cycle analysis, which was largely adopted by the…
Technical Report
Supporting Land Use Adaptation for a Climate Changed Future
The convergence of water use consent renewals and dairy shed renewals may be a catalyst for land use change in mid-Canterbury around the early 2040s.…
Technical Report
Case Study: Ngāti Rangiwewehi
This is one of four mana whenua case studies that provide insights about addressing barriers and challenges they have experienced in freshwater management that could…
Journal Article
The land use suitability concept: Introduction and an application of the concept to inform sustainable productivity within environmental constraints
This paper addresses an application of the LUS concept: evaluating the suitability of land for sustained productivity subject to environmental constraints, as defined by water…
Method
Tool for relating land use/management to sediment rating curve for the Manawatu catchment
Visual clarity of water is the distance (in metres) through water that objects can be seen. It is variable over time because it depends on…
Summary
Ka Manawa Piharau tō Ratau: Workshop Summary
At the close of the final Our Land and Water Symposium, our MC, Johny O’Donnell, spoke of the migratory habits of kūaka (godwits). Every year,…
Where are we conducting our research?
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