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A review of the development and implementation of the critical source area concept: A reflection of Andrew Sharpley’s role in improving water quality

Critical source areas (CSAs) are small areas of a field, farm, or catchment that account for most contaminant loss by having both a high contaminant…
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Technical Report

Meeting the Needs of the Sustainable Finance Sector: Informing the Kaitiaki Intelligence Platform Design

This report outlines the environmental reporting data sought from the sustainable finance sector. It identifies the types of reporting data that could be automatically generated…
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Meeting the Growing Need for Land-Water System Modelling to Assess Land Management Actions

Elevated contaminant levels and hydrological alterations resulting from land use are degrading aquatic ecosystems on a global scale. A range of land management actions may…
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Tauututu: White Paper

This white paper explores the principle and practice of Tauutuutu. Tauutuutu is an indigenous concept that places an ethical obligation on communities and enterprises to…
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TICI: a taxon-independent community index for eDNA-based ecological health assessment

Global biodiversity is declining at an ever-increasing rate. Yet effective policies to mitigate or reverse these declines require ecosystem condition data that are rarely available.…
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Drought: What Does the Future Look Like for Farmers and Growers?

This webinar covered recent drought projections for New Zealand to the end of this century, describing a wetter west and drier east (particularly in winter),…
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Development of a model using matter element, AHP and GIS techniques to assess the suitability of land for agriculture

Land suitability assessment is an essential step for land use planning and development. Over the last decade, many researchers, organizations, research institutes and governments have…
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Webinar: Improving funding and support for collective action groups

At this webinar on 28 November 2023, those involved or interested in improving funding and support for empowering collective action groups to achieve complex environmental…
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Catchment Journey Template

This Catchment Journey Template offers catchment groups an interactive way to capture their freshwater restoration vision and goals with a focus on sustainable land management…
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