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    Social characteristics of New Zealand hydrotowns : A case study
    (Centre for Resource Management, 1983) Taylor, C. N.; Bettesworth, C. M.
    Our aim in this case study has been to examine the existing literature and database on the social characteristics of hydrotowns as part of a comparative study of rapid growth and resource development in New Zealand. One intention of this comparative work is to provide a better conceptual basis for understanding the social implications of resource development. Some initial ideas derived from the case study research are presented by Taylor and McClintock (1983) and further work is proceeding. Issues for planning new rapidly expanded settlements in association with a resource development, and ideas for ensuring that community development is considered early in planning, are being reported elsewhere. We expect that further research on hydrotowns as part of the more general study of New Zealand resource communities will only be conducted by ourselves on a selective basis in response either to particular planning or theoretical issues. One such issue involves the winding down of major construction projects. We are currently researching in detail the life history and future of Twizel to obtain a better understanding of this process.
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    Towards integration: A study of the integrated management of sedimentation in Lyttelton Harbour: Report presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Resource Management
    (Lincoln University, 1995) Jackson, Andrea; McKessar, Jane; Sadler, Lillie; Willis, Andrew; Zygadlo, Frania
    Coastal management in the past has been fragmented. The Resource Management Act 1991 and the new statutory requirements for plans represents an attempt at a more integrated approach. Our aim in this report is to see whether this new system will achieve integrated management. We recognise however, that integrated management is a process as well as an end, and that these two necessarily overlap.
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    Water quality management
    (Centre for Resource Management, 1988) Ward, Jonet; Talbot, Joy
    Since comprehensive legislation for water conservation came into force more than 20 years ago, management of water quality in New Zealand has been undertaken almost exclusively through the administration of water rights. This has resulted in a type of management primarily concerned with pollution control, specifically the regulation of pollutants from point source discharges, rather than one dealing with all aspects of water quality problems such as eutrophication, chronic and cumulative effects of pollutants and different cultural needs. In recent years, as the need for 'clean water' has outgrown local water resources in some regions and as New Zealanders have become more environmentally aware and more vocal in their demands for higher standards of environmental quality, limitations of both the water rights system and of the Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967 (and Amendments) have been recognised.
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    Guidelines for community odour assessment
    (Lincoln University. Department of Resource Management / Lincoln Environmental, 1998-06) Blackford, C.; Greer, Glen; Young, James B.
    This project has been partially funded under the Ministry for the Environment's Sustainable Management Fund and contributes towards maintaining air quality in New Zealand. The management of effects of odour-producing activities has been limited to some degree by the fact that firm guidelines for gathering complaints had not been developed and that the international air quality regulatory community appeared to have been slow to develop standardised procedures for carrying out odour surveys and for determining overall community response to actual or perceived odour problems. In other words, there has been a need for procedures with which to collect subjective information using recognised objective approaches. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on a range of standardised techniques that can be used to establish when community odour problems exist and the magnitude of the problem. The guidelines focus on sociological and associated methods of community odour assessment and provide means by which local authority officers or the operators of odour producing facilities can investigate whether facilities are causing adverse effects (in terms of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA)) or nuisance or offensiveness (in terms of the Health Act 1956). The odour assessment techniques proposed were identified through consultation with the tangata whenua and the National Air Quality Working Group, a review of the relevant international literature, a survey of local authority staff and interviews with people in communities where odour is a problem. Guidelines are provided for: 1) community surveys (questioning on one occasion); 2)odour diaries; 3) community odour panels (questioning on several occasions); 4) public meetings; 5) working parties; 6) consultation with the tangata whenua; 7) community consultation. We have assumed two broad situations in which the techniques might be used. One is for internal monitoring purposes where the organisation does not intend to use the data collected in legal proceedings. In this instance the guidelines can serve as a guide to good practice. The second situation where information could be or is expected to be presented as evidence in legal proceedings. In this latter instance it is important that a recognised expert in question and sample design and data analysis be engaged to ensure that the evidence meets the requirements for admissibility.
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    Modelling and mapping timber yield and its value using geographical information systems : a study of Sitka spruce and beech
    (Lincoln University. Department of Resource Management / Lincoln Environmental., 1997-09) Bateman Ian, J; Lovett Andrew, A
    A geographical information system (GIS) is used to combine and analyse data from a existing large-area databases concerning tree growth, plantation management and the environmental characteristics of planted sites in Wales. The databases included the UK Forestry Commission Sub-Compartment Database (SCDB), the Soil Survey and Land Research Centre Land Information System (LandIS), Forestry Commission topographic shelter data, and a digital elevation model for Wales. Regression analysis techniques were employed to estimate yield class models for Sitka spruce [Picea sitchensis] and beech [Fagus sylvatica], which were chosen as representative conifer and broadleaved species. The GIS was then used to extrapolate results and generate maps of predicted yield for the whole of Wales. Models of timber costs and revenues (including subsidies) were then used to convert these results into maps of timber values for use in forest investment planning.