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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
Resilience is a meaningful, measurable trait of communities
Community resilience can be quantified using available data to inform policy decisions. Identifying vulnerable or deprived communities in New Zealand is straightforward because social, cultural…
Journal Article
Pohewa Pae Tawhiti (Visualising Horizons): a Māori holistic approach to the co-design of land-use systems
Exploring alternative land-uses, particularly alternatives to traditional productivist systems, is a key part of the transition towards sustainable future agricultural systems. However, decision-making around agricultural…
Journal Article
Quantifying the extent of anthropogenic eutrophication of lakes at a national scale
Quantifying environmental changes relative to ecosystem reference conditions (baseline or natural states) can inform assessment of anthropogenic impacts and the development of restoration targets. We…
Guidance
Impacts of sediment on kōaro
This is one of a collection of 11 fact sheets bringing together existing scientific information on the impacts of sediment on freshwater and estuarine fish…
Technical Report
Wairoa River Bed Sediment
The Wairoa River carries large quantities of fine sediment (clays, silts and sands). This fine sediment cloaks both the bed and the banks of the…
Summary
Research Findings Brief: Current state of water contaminants compared to bottom lines
This short, plain-language Research Findings Brief is for regional council planners and central government policy analysts. The briefing document summarises research that evaluated the current…
Interactive Tool
Our Environment: Crop Suitability
Our Environment is a web-based tool that makes environmental information available to users. It has a simplified GIS interface to allow users to spatially explore…
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…
Technical Report
Collaborative Research Towards Best Practice Nitrogen Management in Asparagus Cropping: Final report
Key findings: • Current nitrogen fertiliser recommendations are based on limited trial work. • Nutrient deficiency symptoms are not common and careful fern and root…
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