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Resources for
Government
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People who work in government ministries and agencies can implement policies that support farmers and growers to restore soil, waterways and wildlife, while they grow great food. These resources can help guide a transition to mosaics of land use that are healthy, prosperous and resilient.
Journal Article
Identifying resilience dimensions and thresholds: evidence from four rural communities in NZ
Community resilience is a critical determinant of how a community can cope with stressors and disturbances, but has proved difficult to conceptualise and measure. This…
Journal Article
On the use of multicriteria decision analysis to formally integrate community values into ecosystem-based freshwater management
Freshwater ecosystems are essential to peoples’ economic, cultural, and social well-being, yet are still among the most threatened ecosystems on the planet. Consequently, a plethora…
Presentation
Science to policy and back again: compliant land use practices still cause P leaching
NZ Freshwater Sciences Conference – December 2018
Technical Report
The NZ Food and Fibre Sector: A Situational Analysis
The Primary Sector Council commissioned the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit (AERU) at Lincoln University to prepare this situational analysis that provides a global perspective…
Technical Report
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…
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…
Journal Article
Enabling a transformation to a bioeconomy in New Zealand
The 2009 OECD call for a global transition towards a bioeconomy has resulted in a number of nations adopting national or regional strategies to develop…
Technical Report
Resilience indicators for rural New Zealand towns: Statistical analysis
The AgResearch Resilient Rural Communities (RRC) programme engaged PwC to conduct analysis of official statistics for rural areas of New Zealand. The analysis extended earlier…
Journal Article
Quantifying the extent of anthropogenic eutrophication of lakes at a national scale
Quantifying environmental changes relative to ecosystem reference conditions (baseline or natural states) can inform assessment of anthropogenic impacts and the development of restoration targets. We…