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August 30, 2024
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Collaboration
These resources are for people who want to collaborate more effectively. They can help local government collaborate with communities; catchment group members collaborate among themselves and with mana whenua; and researchers collaborate across disciplines and with stakeholders.
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Journal Article
Interpreting practice: Producing practical wisdom from qualitative study of practitioner experience
This paper discusses methodological challenges in researching practice. The primary challenge arises from the view that practice is inextricable from its performance, and that performance…
Journal Article
Reshaping a farming culture through participatory extension: An institutional logics perspective
Participatory extension programmes influenced practices, beliefs and values underlying the learning logic (changing from a ‘linear’ to ‘multi-actor’ logic) and thus can help facilitate more…
Journal Article
Modeling Water Quality in Watersheds: From Here to the Next Generation
In this synthesis, we assess present research and anticipate future development needs in modeling water quality in watersheds. We first discuss areas of potential improvement…
Journal Article
Designing transdisciplinary projects for collaborative policy-making: The Integration and Implementation Sciences framework as a tool for reflection
Collaborative policy-making has increased in New Zealand, and with it has brought new demands for supporting research. As a tool for reflection of projects where…
Video
More diverse, resilient, healthy landscapes by 2030 – webinar
Farmers, growers and all those who care for our land want to help build a resilient, healthy and thriving agri-food and fibre system. The role…
Technical Report
Barriers to Environmental Change
Farming in New Zealand is changing. The environmental impacts of farming are presenting more interlinked challenges. The pressure is on farmers to shift from the…
Video
What the data tells us about our water
By bringing together multiple data sources, we can now see which catchments are under the most pressure, and whether applying all known and emerging on-farm…
Video
Connecting communities for effective farm plans – webinar
Land use intensification and the degradation of water quality was enabled by a system that considered all farms separately, despite their cumulative effects on water…
Video
Bringing people together for diverse land use – webinar
In some catchments, diversification to mixed land uses will be a more pragmatic solution than applying all mitigations on all farms – especially where a…
Journal Article
Measuring rural community resilience: Case studies in NZ and Vermont, USA
Methods for assessing community resilience have focused predominantly on disaster recovery. There is a need for quantitative measurement tools for assessing community resilience to slow-moving…
Guidance
Engaging with Agribusiness
The aim of this report is to help researchers amplify their research impact and increase knowledge uptake by businesses, industry bodies and Māori enterprise, via…
Summary
Using Cause and Effect Relationships to Enhance Freshwater Management
We’ve summarised research on how Aotearoa’s fresh water responds to stressors into a short Research Findings Brief. Using Lake Hayes near Queenstown as a scenario…