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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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Summary: Farm Economic Metrics for Regenerative Agriculture
A 1-page visual summary of a suggested approach to assess the return of regenerative farming businesses.
Journal Article
Navigating Institutional Challenges: Design to Enable Community Participation in Social Learning for Freshwater Planning
Social learning is a process suited to developing understanding and concerted action to tackle complex resource dilemmas, such as freshwater management. In practice, social learning…
Workforce Implications of Land-Use Change
Investigating workforce as a constraint on land-use changes
This project has produced
Technical Report
The development of an indicator framework to measure enablers and constraints on Māori agribusiness
This report outlines the process taken to map the specific constraints and enablers Māori agribusinesses face, and produce a set of indicators to measure these…
Video
Perception of Drone Use in Environmental Management
Can drones be used to efficiently demonstrate environmental compliance and thus ecological sustainability? This short video describes research that investigated the perceptions of farmers and…
Technical Report
Catchment And Community Environment Groups In Aotearoa New Zealand: Goals, Activities And Needs
The Ministry for the Environment contracted the Cawthron Institute to survey catchment and community environment groups about how they are organised, what they are doing,…
Journal Article
Estimation of Catchment Nutrient Loads in New Zealand Using Monthly Water Quality Monitoring Data
Causes of variation between nutrient loads estimated using alternative calculation methods and their repeatability were investigated using 20 years of daily flow and monthly concentration…
Journal Article
How to improve water governance in multifunctional irrigation systems? Balancing stakeholder engagement in hydrosocial territories
An evidence-based analysis of stakeholder engagement in decision-making processes affecting multifunctional irrigation systems. The case studies show how stakeholder engagement in irrigation systems shapes hydrosocial…
Presentation
CLUES calibration – can we use CLUES to estimate attenuation?
NZ Freshwater Sciences Society Annual Conference, December 2018
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