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August 30, 2024
Resources for
Regional Authorities
Paul Sutherland
People in local government can help farms operate in ways that ensure the health of our land and water. Our resources can help you increase your local community’s understanding of the drivers for regulation, undertake effective collaboration, and improve decision-making in catchments.
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Technical Report
The viability, feasibility, and environmental effects from using New Zealand sourced phosphate
New Zealand has accessible, on-shore sources of phosphate, finds this report. There are known phosphate deposits in Clarendon, Otago (containing at least 1.6Mt of phosphate…
Summary
Project Summary – Future Risk Planning Through The Visualisation Of Forestry Harvesting Cycles
The project team engaged an extensive audience through the project including iwi, councils, forestry industry, subject matter experts, scientists and public in order to deeply…
Summary
Visualisation Of Forestry Harvesting Cycles: Wairoa Catchment Case Study
The case study illustrates how the Forestry Catchment Planner app could assist various stakeholders in the forestry sector by offering detailed insights into land vulnerability…
Interactive Tool
Integrated Impact Assessment Framework (updated March 2024)
The purpose of this integrated impact assessment (IIA) framework is to allow exploration of scenarios where land use is changing for a specified region of…
Journal Article
Agrivoltaics: Integrating Solar Energy Generation with Livestock Farming in the Canterbury Region of Aotearoa New Zealand (pre-print)
Agrivoltaics is the integration of agriculture and solar energy production and seeks to find synergies between the two to create a complementary system. With increased…
Model
Scenario design of New Zealand future agriculture
We have developed a simple decision-support tool that is the first to represent the whole agricultural system of New Zealand at the national scale. The…
Technical Report
Kuaha Matihiko: Digital Gateway final report
The Kuaha Matihiko: Digital Gateway project identified the urgent need for an integrated and user-friendly centralised gateway that provides easy access to all the critical…
Guidance
Ki uta ki tai: mātāpono me te pūtaiao, ngā korero whakamahuki ma te kaitiaki – From mountains to the sea: values and science for an informed kaitiaki / guardian
Estuaries, located between land and sea, are diverse and productive ecosystems that provide a wide range of highly valued goods and services. The health of…
Video
Environmental Law and Agrivoltaics
Professor Catherine Iorns, of Victoria University of Wellington School of Law, discusses the RMA process for agrivoltaics, when the public get involved in the consenting…
Interactive Tool
Groundwater Detection Power Calculator
This GitHub package is designed to calculate the statistical power of detecting a change in groundwater/surface concentration depending on sampling duration, sampling frequency, ‘true’ receptor…
Technical Report
Steering land use change to meet water quality targets
This project aimed to estimate the scope of land practice and land use change over 20 years that might be required by regional councils to…
Technical Report
Strategies to improve the efficiency and decrease the negative environmental impacts from phosphorous fertiliser use
This report is part of an Our Land and Water National Science Challenge funded project identifying strategies to improve phosphorus (P) use efficiency, decrease the…