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Technical Report

The Our Phosphorus Future Report

Unsustainable phosphorus use is at the heart of many societal challenges. Unsustainable phosphorus use affects food and water security, freshwater biodiversity and human health. Increasing…
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Technical Report

Interoperable Modelling – spatial economic optimisation

In this report we describe the application of the spatial modelling and optimisation framework LUMASS as a spatial optimisation tool in the Interoperable Modelling Project.…
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Benign Dentrification

Benign Denitrification in Groundwaters

Developing a cost-effective technique to assess denitrification processes and end products in shallow groundwaters
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Freshwater Improvement Scenario Builder

The Freshwater Improvement Scenario Builder is a tool for exploring the effect of mitigation strategies and land use change on water quality. It shows the…
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Summary

Biodiversity Credits to Fund Land-Use Change on the Table

There is no universal solution to financing land-use change in Aotearoa, according to new research, but new devices like biodiversity credits show promise, as do…
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Connecting Food Producers Andconsumer

Connecting Food Producers & Consumers

Navigating social licence to operate between farmers, agribusinesses, consumers, and citizens in Aotearoa New Zealand
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TICI: a taxon-independent community index for eDNA-based ecological health assessment

Global biodiversity is declining at an ever-increasing rate. Yet effective policies to mitigate or reverse these declines require ecosystem condition data that are rarely available.…
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Method

Achieving unbiased predictions of national-scale groundwater redox conditions via data oversampling and statistical learning

An important policy consideration for integrated land and water management is to understand the spatial distribution of nitrate attenuation in the groundwater system, for which…
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