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Addressing the wicked problem of water resource management: an ecosystem services approach
(Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society, 2011-02)
This paper develops a systematic assessment of the sustainability of ecosystem services provided by rivers impacted by water storage projects. Given the conflicting preferences amongst stakeholders and the incomplete, ...
Evaluating the sustainability of impounded river systems and the cost-effectiveness of dam projects: an ecosystem services approach
(Australian Agricultural & Resource Economics Society, 2011-02)
In recent times, there has been increasing demand in the Canterbury region of New Zealand for the abstraction of water from rivers. The impact of this demand has lead to unacceptable minimum river flows and has adversely ...
The sustainability and cost-effectiveness of water storage projects on Canterbury rivers: the Opihi River case
(New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, 2010-08)
There is an increasing demand for water resources in the Canterbury region. The impact of this demand has lead to unacceptable minimum river flows, which has resulted in adverse affects to river ecology. In an effort to ...
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 ...
Information for environment decision-making
(2007)
EIANZ in 2007 released a blueprint for environmental practitioners entitled ‘Meeting the Challenges of the Future’. Three sets of actions were listed as forming the basis for the Blueprint, including – ‘Improve the ...
Lessons on petroleum benefits
(Otago Daily Times., 2014-01)
The prospect of renewed exploration for petroleum offshore New Zealand has generated
plenty of interest amongst the general public, business interests and government. New Zealand
has an offshore exploration history dating ...
A view from the bottom of the pyramid: drivers of corporate environmentalism in developing countries
(2009-08)
Drawing on perspectives from stakeholder, resource dependence, institutional and resource
based theories and using a multiple-case inductive study, this research examines the drivers
of corporate environmentalism in ...
Systematic, transparent and repeatable species prioritisation
(Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand., 2009-08)
New Zealand has a very large number of threatened and endangered species. The resources available to tackle the challenges of managing biodiversity are limited. The efforts applied, have to date proved insufficient to ...
Are we failing on weeds?
(Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand., 2009-02)
New Zealand has several systems in place to prevent entry, eradicate, contain,
provide surveillance of weeds. The success of those efforts is far less than some of
us hope for and the numbers of naturalised weedy plants, ...
Investments in environmental research, science and technology: their impacts on irrigation and mussel farming
(New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, 2004-06)
MoRST is evaluating the Environmental Research output class of the Public Good Science Fund to identify inter alia the impacts of Environmental RS&T spending. Three specific questions are: How effective has the funding on ...