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Next Generation Farming Systems -Transformation by Design

Poster presentation displayed at the Land Use and Water Quality Agriculture and the Environment, June 2019, Denmark
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Journal Article

Integrated impact assessment for land and water management

Impact assessment considers the future consequences of current or proposed actions, but multiple impact assessment types and silos of expertise make integration difficult. When faced…
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Transferring the impacts of pilot-scale studies to other scales: Understanding the role of non-biophysical factors using field-based irrigation studies

Researchers are challenged to design research that can generate credible claims regarding cross-scale impact and adoption. However, the context in which new knowledge or innovation…
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Mātauranga Māori Wānanga Overview Report

Che Wilson convened wānanga gathering whānau from around the motu to create a space to discuss and further extend our understanding of the whakapapa and…
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Guidance

Monitoring deposited fine sediment in rivers

Deposited fine sediment is the fine sand, silt or clay (less than 2mm wide) that settles on the bed of a river. It occurs naturally…
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Assessing the Yield and Load of Contaminants with Stream Order: Would Policy Requiring Livestock to Be Fenced Out of High-Order Streams Decrease Catchment Contaminant Loads?

This paper won the JEQ Best Paper Award 2019. Concentration and flow data for 1998 to 2009 were used to calculate catchment load and yields…
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Forging future organizational leaders for sustainability science

Our Land and Water director Ken Taylor contributed to this paper in Nature Sustainability, with thinking influenced by the work of the Collaboration Lab. Leaders…
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Technical Report

Soil health research in the context of regenerative agriculture

Soil is increasingly considered a ‘common good', like water and air. In Aotearoa New Zealand, we also need to consider principles integral to understanding soil…
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Delineating the interaction of Escherichia species with freshwater pathogens and land-use

A project to add value to Ministry for the Environment’s Freshwater Pathogen QMRA study found that low numbers of E. coli phylotype B1 and a…
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