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Hydrological factors influencing the ecology of riverbed breeding birds on the plains' reaches of Canterbury's braided rivers
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1985)
The wide, unstable, braided riverbeds of the eastern South Island, New Zealand, have been inhabited by a diverse avifauna. Several species including the wrybill breed only on these rivers. Use is restricted mainly to the ...
Ethnicity and views about the New Zealand environment
Limited research has been completed on the relationship between ethnicity and views within a country on the environment, pressures on the environment and its management. Some recent New Zealand research has found no ...
Jet boating on Canterbury Rivers - 2015
(Environment Canterbury, 2015-10-05)
All jetboating rivers in Canterbury are described in terms of their values, flow needs and other considerations. Access, flow restrictions, and seasonal limits are identified and the top boating opportunities are highlighted. ...
Zero waste to landfill: An unacknowledged supermegaproject
(Lincoln University Planning Association, 2013)
Zero Waste is a global movement focused on replacing linear resource-to-waste systems with circular systems found elsewhere in nature, and Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWtL) is a specific interpretation implying the total ...
The river values assessment system: volume 2: application to cultural, production and environmental values
(Lincoln University. LEaP, 2010-12)
Many attempts over several decades have been made to develop priority lists of important rivers for different values (e.g., angling, kayaking, irrigation, native birds) in New Zealand. Apart from one or two of these most ...
Ranking New Zealand river values – a novel approach to managing the 'chalk and cheese' problem
(New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, 2009-08)
In New Zealand, regional councils have the task of sustainably managing rivers and their flows. In trying to achieve this task they face enormous challenges including the need to allocate flows amongst often highly disparate ...
Wildlife of urban environments: some thoughts on the surprisingly un-surprising New Zealand context
(Wickliffe Press, 2000)
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of wildlife in the urban environment with an emphasis on the New Zealand, and in particular on the Christchurch context. Some conclusions from this overview analysis are made, ...
Evaluation of externality management instruments in marine fisheries
(Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, 2001-01)
New Zealand marine fishing activities create many types of environmental externalities,
which by law must be internalised. Selection of best intemalisation instruments can be aided
by following a hierarchical decision ...
Public perceptions of New Zealand's environment: 2013
(EOS Ecology, 2013)
The seventh (having begun in 2000) survey of people’s perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment was undertaken over February-March 2013. The survey is based on the Pressure-State-Response (PSR) model of ...