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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…
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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…
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Regenerative agriculture – opening up the wallet

Regenerative agriculture has potential as a selling point for our export markets, but how do the numbers stack up for farmers? This article summarises the…
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Online Tools Show Where Land-Use Change Needs to be Considered

We now know where land use needs to change, to meet New Zealand policy expectations for water quality. This article was prepared as an impact…
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Monitoring water clarity and turbidity in rivers

Water clarity and turbidity are commonly used measures of optical water quality. Water clarity (also referred to as visual clarity) is the ability of light…
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Indicators of Collective Responsibility by Catchment Groups

This report makes some general observations about the process of developing indicators and then offers some suggested indicators for catchment groups and for support organisations.…
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The impact of policy on sustainable land use options in New Zealand

Do current national and regional policy frameworks discourage (or insufficiently encourage) change at the scale and diversity needed for the Our Land and Water National…
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Presentation

De-Risking Land-Use Transformation in New Zealand

Agricultural Economics Society, April 2019, Belgium
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Indicators in the NZ Sustainability Dashboard: An Overview of their Structure and Application

This report outlines the concept and structure of the New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard (NZSD), describes the NZSD sustainability indicators framework and details how the individual…
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