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Faecal source tracking to understand the role of introduced predators and avian species on water quality assessments in the Makiriri Reserve, Dannevirke

Escherichia coli are used as indicators of faecal contamination in water quality assessments, but ‘naturalised’ non-faecal E. coli and non-pathogenic E. coli-like bacteria can confound…
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Monitoring to detect changes in water quality to meet policy objectives

Detecting change in water quality is key to providing evidence of progress towards meeting water quality objectives. A key measure for detecting change is statistical…
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Consumer Insights and Willingness to Pay for Attributes: NZ Beef Products in California, USA

To achieve greater value in global markets, New Zealand can increase its understanding of our international customers’ demands for products from New Zealand’s land and…
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A review of the policies and implementation of practices to decrease water quality impairment by phosphorus in NZ, the UK, and the US

We outline policy in New Zealand, the UK, and the US who have imposed limits for P. We contrast the strategies used and discuss their…
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Wellbeing Economics in Public Policy: A Distinctive Australasian Contribution?

The ‘Wellbeing Budget’ presented to the New Zealand Parliament in 2019 was widely described as a world-first. This article explores the possibility of a distinctive…
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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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The effect of irrigation and urine application on phosphorus losses to subsurface flow from a stony soil

Factors such as irrigation and soil pH can increase the solubility of P and its loss to water. Urine patches are known to alter pH…
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Lower Cost Native Restoration of Farmland: Tīmata Method Fact Sheet

This six-page fact sheet on the Tīmata Method has been developed for New Zealand land owners. The Tīmata Method, which in Māori translates to begin,…
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Testing indicators of resilience for rural communities

The resilience of rural communities is a concern, both in itself and for its effects on the agricultural sector. This article investigates the possibility of…
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