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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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Guidance
Wellbeing Economics: The Capabilities Approach to Prosperity
This free (open-access PDF) book sets out a wellbeing economics framework that directly addresses fundamental issues affecting wellbeing outcomes. The book examines national public policy,…
Method
A strategy for optimizing catchment management actions to stressor–response relationships in freshwaters
Defining a receiving environment,-value-contaminant system and determining a specific stressor–response relationship for that system provide valuable decision support strategy to optimize management actions toward a…
Presentation
Science to policy and back again: compliant land use practices still cause P leaching
NZ Freshwater Sciences Conference – December 2018
Presentation
A regional council application of tools – taking the road less travelled
NZ Freshwater Sciences Conference, December 2018
Journal Article
Towards baseflow index characterisation at national scale in New Zealand
BaseFlow Index (BFI) was determined for all river reaches in New Zealand. A recursive digital filtering technique was applied to 482 gauged sites across New…
Video
Heartland Strong: Building rural resilience
Dr Bill Kaye-Blake presents at the Boma Grow Agri Summit, April 2019
Map
Potential Groundwater Recharge Zones in New Zealand – image
Map of the potential groundwater recharge zones across New Zealand (500m x 500m resolution), which can be used to identify areas of high nutrient leaching…
Map
Potential Groundwater Recharge Zones in New Zealand – GIS raster zip file
Map of the potential groundwater recharge zones across New Zealand (500m x 500m resolution), which can be used to identify areas of high nutrient leaching…
Method
Method to Measure Rural Community Resilience
The Indicators Working Group (co-funded by AgResearch) produced a method to measure community resilience at a point in time using Statistics NZ data to indicate…
Technical Report
Application of a revised SedNetNZ model to the Oreti and Aparima catchments, Southland
This report presents an application of a revised version of the SedNetNZ sediment budget model to the Oreti and Aparima catchments in Southland. We focused…
Technical Report
Climate change impacts on land use suitability
This report aims to assist land managers and natural resource planners to assess the resilience of agricultural land uses across New Zealand and to inform…
Technical Report
Essential freshwater: Impact of existing periphyton and proposed dissolved inorganic nitrogen bottom lines
This report for the Ministry for the Environment applies methods developed in the LUS research programme to help resource management professionals understand the implications of…