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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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Guidance
Land Use Options in Waimakariri
The Whitiwhiti Ora: Land Use Opportunities case study in Waimakariri brought farmers and researchers together to co-design an approach to assessing diverse opportunities when considering…
Technical Report
How Value Chains Can Share Value and Incentivise Land Use Practices
The research team was commissioned to write a paper on how value chains can better share value (economic, environmental, social and cultural) from consumer to…
Video
Our Land and Water Podcast Episode 1: How bad is our water quality, really?
For the past eight years, Our Land and Water has funded research with the goal of improving the health of our rivers and lakes here…
Technical Report
Evaluation of the physiographic method for the Tasman Region
The work undertaken in this project provides Tasman District Council with a foundation for which the physiographic approach can be applied within the region. The…
Method
Achieving unbiased predictions of national-scale groundwater redox conditions via data oversampling and statistical learning
An important policy consideration for integrated land and water management is to understand the spatial distribution of nitrate attenuation in the groundwater system, for which…
Video
Webinar: Where next for catchment groups?
In this webinar, Jim Sinner, manager of social science at Cawthron Institute, presents findings from research on how catchment groups can be supported and encouraged…
Guidance
Monitoring chlorophyll a in lakes
Chlorophyll a is a photosynthetic pigment found in plants and algae, including in phytoplankton (microscopic algae suspended in a water column). High concentrations of chlorophyll…
Method
A spatial analysis framework to assess responses of agricultural landscapes to climates and soils at regional scale
This chapter describes the structure, datasets and processing methods of a new spatial analysis framework to assess the response of agricultural landscapes to climates and…
Healthy Estuaries
Assessing the interactions between loadings of different contaminants from freshwaters on the health and functioning of estuaries
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Where are we conducting our research?
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