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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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Journal Article
Implications of water quality policy on land use: A case study of the approach in NZ
Achieving good water quality through output controls is difficult. The New Zealand Government recently proposed enforceable bottom lines to protect ecosystem health of 1 mg…
Presentation
Development of linked frameworks to represent and manage catchment-scale contaminant transport for improved water quality outcomes
Freshwater Society Conference, November 2017
Journal Article
Rewarding Responsible Innovation when Consumers are Distant from Producers: Evidence from NZ
This paper examined the question of whether local producers can be rewarded for responsible innovation (for example, to improve sustainability of production) when the bulk…
Journal Article
Evidence for the effects of land use on freshwater ecosystems in New Zealand
We used the pressure-state-impact (PSI) framework to assess evidence of land-use effects on New Zealand freshwater ecosystems. There was substantial evidence of land-use effects, particularly…
Guidance
Te Mana o te Wai Training Programme for Regional Councils
The Te Mana o Te Wai Training Programme has been developed as a minimum training standard for those with statutory roles within, or proximate to,…
Journal Article
Meteorological drought in Northland, NZ: A regional and local analysis using copulas
Meteorological drought is a significant and recurring hazard in Northland, where eight droughts have been recorded since 1900. An analysis characterised by severity, duration, and…
Guidance
Towards developing Aotearoa value chains – flyer
One of the most interesting findings from the Rewarding Sustainable Practices research programme was the importance of sets of shared values across the value chain.…
Interactive Tool
Kiwifruit in Shanghai, China
Online tool to access and analyse results of a survey of kiwifruit consumers in Shanghai about their consumer behaviour, preferences, technology use, understanding of Māori…
Video
Physiographics in the Waituna catchment
The Physiographic Environments of New Zealand research project, part of the Our Land and Water National Science Challenge, describes how the physiographics approach has been…
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