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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Te Tiriti-led and mission-oriented: Assessing Phase 2 of Our Land and Water Toitū te Whenua, Toiora te Wai
We provide evidence to support that deliberately embedding the Te Taiao model helped those involved in OLW, researchers and non-researchers, Māori and non-Māori, conceptualise, legitimise…
Project Summary: A Risk Assessment Approach for Prioritising Actions in Farm Environment Plans
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to produce a prototype geospatial tool to identify and prioritise management practices…
Potential groundwater recharge zones across New Zealand
Knowledge of groundwater recharge potential is required for sustainable groundwater management, including the assessment of vulnerability to contamination. This study maps (at 500m x 500m…
Sensors increase understanding and interest
Real-time nitrate sensors increased farmer understanding of contaminant pathways through their farm and the impact of rainfall events, and grew community interest in water quality…
A risk assessment approach for prioritising actions in farm environment plans with mahinga kai values
The project co-developed and produced a geospatial tool that is available through a webpage. The beta tool allows users (initially dairy farmers) to identify and…
Indicators for the Future: Lessons from Next Generation Systems
The Indicators Working Group worked with Our Land and Water's Next Generation Systems (NGS) researchers to prioritise and evaluate indicators. NGS involves researchers working with…
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