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Sediment traps in hill country

The farmers have been involved in riparian fencing and planting but saw a need to try and reduce the sediment load of water channels that…
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Integrating Multiple Stressors and Lake Resilience into Lake Management Frameworks

Session: Drivers of Change Presentation: Evolving the Paradigm: Integrating Multiple Stressors and Lake Resilience into Lake Management Frameworks Speakers: Marc Schallenberg
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A risk index tool to minimize the risk of nitrogen loss from land to water

Simple models can help reduce nitrogen (N) loss from land and protect water quality. However, the complexity of primary production systems may impair the accuracy…
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Meat insights: Uruguayan consumers' mental associations and motives underlying consumption changes

A telephone survey (n = 601) was conducted in Uruguay to explore participants' mental associations with meat and the underlying reasons changes in the quantity…
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Trusting in the ‘Eye in the Sky'? Farmers' and Auditors' Perceptions of Drone Use in Environmental Auditing

Worldwide, the agricultural sector is under pressure to demonstrate environmental sustainability. In New Zealand, farm environment plans (FEPs) and their auditing were intended to guide…
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Collective storytelling to improve freshwater ecosystem health through catchment community knowledge sharing

Water, the lifeblood of Aotearoa New Zealand, sustains our identity and wellbeing; nonetheless, freshwater environments (lakes, rivers, wetlands and aquifers) are significantly impacted by humans.…
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Understanding Land-Use Trade-off Decision Making Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process: Insights from Agricultural Land Managers in Zambia

Understanding factors that influence trade-offs between agricultural expansion and forest conservation is important in managing competing land-use objectives. This paper applies elements of the Analytical…
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Developing a framework to assess the impacts of land use change using wellbeing indicators

An in-progress update on the development of a framework to measure the true (integrated) effects of land use change, focussed on the selection of wellbeing…
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History and impacts of Wai 262 – webinar

We all need to understand the origins, history and impacts of the Wai 262 Waitangi Tribunal claim on individuals and whanau, so that we can…
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