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Technical Report

Multilateral Data Sharing: Lessons from a case study with organisations managing beef genetics data

Multilateral data sharing (MLDS) is a long-held goal of many organisations in New Zealand’s food and fibre industries. It is also an efficient way to…
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Guidance

Make your stream monitoring data count! A national quality assurance framework for community-based monitoring in Aotearoa New Zealand

This national quality assurance framework will support community and CBM groups to collect freshwater data of a known quality that are ‘fit for purpose’. The…
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Presentation

Science to policy and back again: compliant land use practices still cause P leaching

NZ Freshwater Sciences Conference – December 2018
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Presentation

Denitrification in shallow groundwaters: An ecosystem service or a pollution swap? –poster

Fertilizer and Lime Research Centre workshop 32, February 2019
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Journal Article

A risk index tool to minimize the risk of nitrogen loss from land to water

Simple models can help reduce nitrogen (N) loss from land and protect water quality. However, the complexity of primary production systems may impair the accuracy…
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Presentation

Land use transformation; can science de-risk barriers to land use change?

NZ Society of Soil Science Conference, December 2018, Napier
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Journal Article

Understanding signals influencing on-farm change

We developed a framework to identify external off-farm signals from farmers’ operating environment and internal on-farm signals that provide information about the farming system. We…
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Presentation

Road testing collective action design principles

Jim Sinner’s presentation at the IASC Conference, May 2021
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Journal Article

Transformation Is ‘Experienced, Not Delivered’: Insights from Grounding the Discourse in Practice to Inform Policy and Theory

Calls for transformation, transformative research, and transformational impact are increasingly heard from governments, industry and universities to set a course towards sustainability. This paper contributes…
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