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Item Proceedings of the 1983 Hill and High Country Seminar, Lincoln College, 10-11 May 1983(Lincoln College, Centre for Resource Management, 1983-11) Robertson, B. T.The proceedings include the full text of the following papers: J. B. Dent & James Stewart, Farming without SMP’s; J. G. Bayley, Farming without SMP’s; I. G. C. Kerr, Production, performance and prospects in the high country; A. G. Sinclair and P. D. McIntosh, Soils and fertilisers for pasture production in the South Island hill and high country; G. G. Cossens, The effect of altitude on pasture production in South Island hill and high country; J. L. Daniell, How I manage my fertiliser programme; A. Kane, How I handle my fertiliser programme; J. E. Radclzffe, Fodder trees - an option for dry hill country; B. J. Wills, Forage plants for the semi-arid high country and rangelands of New Zealand; A. H. Ensor, The management and profitability of a prolific flock; T. Wallis, Is it too late to start deer farming?; L. S. Saunders, Ewes or wethers?; J. W. Edmonds, Going into forestry; G. R. Hampton, Mixing farming and forestry; N. S. Percival & R. L. Knowles, Agroforestry research; J. M. Aitken, Farming and forestry on North Island east coast hill country; E. R. H. Garden, Diversification - that means farm forestry too!; T. A. Roberts, Rural fire insurance; J. G. Groome, Planning for profitable marketing of trees; Ian Donald, Financing farming and forestry into the nineties; K. Whiteside, Commentary; D. G. Reynolds, Where do we go from here?Item Proceedings of the 1985 Hill and High Country Seminar, Lincoln College, July 1985(Centre for Resource Management, 1986-03) Robertson, B. T.; Johnston, W.The proceedings include the full text of the following papers: G. Batten, The challenge of goats; B. R. D. Purchas, Goat management and fibre returns; Joan E. Radcliffe, Gorse control with goats; G. L. Holgate Sweet brier control with goats; M. G. Lambert, Goats for controlling pasture weeds; J. M. Keoghan, MAF research on alternative pasture species, cultivators and lines for southern South Island hill and high country; B. E. Allan, Pasture species most suited to non-arable hill and high country: a new look at traditional species; M. Douglas, Lucerne establishment in high country soils; J. M. Keoghan, Fitting pasture species and cultivars into high country landscapes and grazing systems; - C. Bridgeman, Species for the moist zone; E. WVartha, D. Scott & L.A. Maunsell, Species for intensive use; J. Tavendale & R. Evans Species for special purpose high country pastures; J. Perriam, Pasture management in the dry zone; A. Heath & R. Ward-Smith, Adding value to fine wool sheep; Can traditional hill country agriculture survive the market economy (i) A farmer's view - E. Garden (ii) An economist's perspective - G. E. Rutherford, P. G. Bushnell (iii) A commentary - A. Rayner; Matagouri control (i) Chemicals - B. A. Patterson (ii) The burning option - P. Grigg (iii) The do-nothing approach - H. Pawsey.Item Environment and ethics : a New Zealand contribution(Centre for Resource Management, 1986) Howell, JohnThis collection of essays promotes a dialogue between a group of philosophers and ecologists on the subject of environmental ethics. Through group meetings and a mutual exchange of drafts over a period of two years, each author has been made aware of the thinking of others, so common themes and questions have been addressed. Nonetheless there are contrasts between the essays which the reader will observe, even though in the two preservation essays there is joint authorship. Often discussions of this kind are strong ethics and weak on ecology, or vice versa. I believe we have here a set of integrated discussions from authors with skills from both disciplines. The collection includes the full text of the following essays: Les Molloy & Jim Wilson, Why preserve wilderness?; Alastair S. Gunn & Alan Edmonds, Why preserve species?; Diane Hunt, Responsibility to future people; Graeme Scott, Pollution as a transfer of consequences; Why are non-human animals objects of moral concern?; John Morton, The anatomy of decision; Chris Parkin, The human element; Graeme Scott, An ethic for nature.Item Mountain beech forest : an educational resource(Centre for Resource Management, Lincoln College for the Canterbury Science Teachers’ Association, 1985) Jowett, Warren; Stephenson, Ian; Coates, FelicityMany teachers of biology in Canterbury enjoy taking their students into mountain beech forest for field studies. An oft-expressed complaint in the past has been the lack of simple, readily available resource material to assist both teacher and student in their study. This book is an attempt by three biology teachers to fill this gap. The book has three aims. The first is to introduce the reader to the mountain beech tree and the beech forest community (including stream ecology). The second is to describe activities which students may use in beech forest. Lastly, the book identifies forest areas in Canterbury where field studies can be conveniently carried out by school groups. The original idea for the book came from the Canterbury Science Teachers' Association. The idea took a step towards becoming reality when financial support was provided by the Environmental Council to C.S.T.A. to produce the book. Teacher release time was provided by the Education Department, support and assistance given by the staff of the Canterbury conservancy of the New Zealand Forest Service and editorial and publication assistance was generously given by the Centre for Resource Management, Lincoln College. In total a large number of people belonging to a number of different agencies combined together to produce the book. It is hoped that this will not be the only exercise of this kind where educational and scientific agencies in Canterbury combine to produce an educational publication on ecology. It is also hoped that student and teacher alike find the book helpful in interpreting and understanding the ecology of mountain beech forest. But please remember - it was written as an aide to, and not a substitute for, field work.Item Social assessment : theory, process and techniques(Centre for Resource Management, 1990-08) Taylor, C. Nicholas; Bryan, C. Hobson; Goodrich, Colin. G.Impetus in New Zealand for the development of theory, process, and techniques of social assessment comes from major social change. This change has been in the restructuring and reform of the public service and the resource economy. It has been paralleled by reform of local and regional councils and the legal basis for resource management. This has led not only to renewed interest in creative procedures and techniques for use in the broad field of environmental management, but a need to build and extend expertise as well. The text begins with a critical examination of the historical background of social assessment, the common problems that have emerged and suggested solutions leading to new perspectives. This focus on both constraints and prospects for new approaches continues in Chapter Two with a discussion of orientations to the field and typical work environments in which practitioners tend to operate. Shifts in orientation are advocated. The basis for a new, issues-oriented approach is detailed in the remaining chapters. Within Chapter Three a theoretical overview is provided along with base assumptions for the new approach, assumptions drawn from environmental sociology and other innovative areas of social theory. The process of social assessment, including the need for adequate institutional arrangements, is examined in Chapter Four. In Chapter Five a flexible, analytical approach to the collection and analysis of data for social assessment is introduced. This approach requires a basic conceptual framework, as discussed in Chapter Six. Then various techniques for collecting data are discussed, including secondary data and surveys in Chapter Seven, and information on economic impacts in Chapter Eight. Finally, in Chapter Nine, qualitative and consultative methods are discussed as fundamental to the issues-oriented approach. Short case studies are used for illustration.