The purpose of this paper is to analyse the summary record of how landscape has been perceived and thought about in New Zealand and to interpret the role of such perceptions and conceptions in providing unity and order ...

The Resource Management Law Reform process presently underway is likely to result in considerable changes being made to the way in which the assessment processes, which are the subject of this work, fit within the revised ...

Whereas the advantages of freehold are accepted for the rest of New Zealand, the same cannot be said of the High Country. Its multiple uses and sensitive nature are thought to require government's directing hand, with ...

The game of Canada goose management is a complex issue, on one side, the hunters; on the other, the farmers. Government takes the field as referee. However, this referee is like no other. This referee takes sides. Sometimes ...

This paper presents an analysis of New Zealand's law relating to hazardous substances. The analysis follows the method outlined in the Centre for Resource Management's publication "Property Rights and Natural Resource ...

The New Zealand Mountain Lands Institute replaces the Tussock Grasslands and Mountain Lands Institute which was established in 1961 with L.W. McCaskill as its first Director. The prime function of the Institute is to ...

Sweet Brier (Rosa Rubiginosa) is a noxious weed prominent in tussock grasslands in the drier parts of Marlborough, Canterbury and Otago. It has been estimated (Hunter 1983) that sweet brier is present on over 400,000 ...

This report reviews recent changes in rural society by describing adjustments on the farm and in the rural community. The financial position of farmers is described and shows that restructuring has had differential impacts ...

Some farmers, and consultants, are better at their job than their colleagues. A branch of artificial intelligence known as expert systems attempts to capture this difference (their expertise) in computer based systems and ...

The themes for the 1989 Conference of the New Zealand Branch of the Australian Agricultural Economics Society include: Meat Industry, Farm Finance, Agricultural Policy, Dairying, Energy Pricing, Privatising Water, Kiwifruit ...