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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
Analysing Trade-Offs in Land-Use Decision-Making
A free training course by Xiaoting Hou-Jones (IIED, UK) and Alan Renwick (Lincoln University, New Zealand). This virtual training aims to help researchers learn how…
Technical Report
Quantifying resilience to drought and flooding in agricultural systems
Soil has physical properties that affect its ability to retain water in periods of drought, and drain water in times of extreme or prolonged rainfall.…
Guidance
Monitoring phosphorus in rivers
Phosphorus is an essential nutrient for the growth and development of plants and animals. It occurs naturally as phosphate bound to rocks and soil, and…
Summary
Te Mana o te Wai Factsheet 3: The National Objectives Framework
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide an introduction to Te Mana o Te Wai, its relationship to the National Objectives Framework, and…
Map
Māorimaps.com Waitangi Catchment Pilot
This provides a new web enabled access tool that connects cultural GIS data and soil and water science, with the Māori Maps marae community platform.…
Summary
Has the social license negotiated within peri-urban environments been impacted following Cyclone Gabrielle?
Has the social licence negotiated within peri-urban environments been impacted following Cyclone Gabrielle? This report examines a case study of disaster response in Te Awa,…
Summary
Project Summary: What are the Best Sediment Traps for my Hill Country Stream?
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of three different sediment traps within the same…
Interactive Tool
MitAgator
Built on a detailed farm map, MitAgator’s software gives a spatial view of where contaminant losses are occurring and identifies critical source areas (CSAs). Targeting…
Journal Article
Quantifying contaminant losses to water from pastoral land uses in NZ I: Development of a spatial framework for assessing losses at a farm scale
Assessing the effectiveness of mitigation measures for reducing contaminant losses to water from pastoral farming systems is a challenging task. Two important factors that contribute…
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