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Perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment - water
(New Zealand Environment., 2003)
The second biennial survey of people’s perceptions of the state of the New Zealand environment was undertaken in February 2002. The survey is based on the Pressure-State-Response model of state of the environment reporting. ...
Native bush in Central Hawke's Bay: is there a future without rules?
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2001)
The protection of New Zealand's indigenous biodiversity of New
Zealand is a significant national issue. Central Hawke's Bay (CHB)
has not escaped comments about the continuing loss and
degradation of native bush, and ...
Farming in the flood zone: case study - Rangitikei River
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2004)
The February floods 2004 were
dramatic in our recent river
history and may have changed
the way our whole river systems
are managed, farmed and where
we live.
This report is a case study of the
Rangitikei River but ...
Clay target shooting: threats and issues
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Commerce. Kellogg Rural Leaders Programme., 2003)
Clay target shooting is a sport with a long history, both within New Zealand and
internationally. While it was originally a means of practising hunting skills, in
time it became a sport in its own right. Today the "sport" ...
Attitudes and barriers to water transfer
(Lincoln Ventures Ltd. Lincoln Environmental., 2001-12)
This project is part of the Ministry for Environment’s Water Allocation Programme. The
programme is aimed at enabling sustainable development of New Zealand’s water resources
by removing unnecessary constraints to water ...
Information on water allocation in New Zealand
(Lincoln Ventures Ltd. Lincoln Environmental., 2000-04)
Water allocation is identified as a high priority in the Ministry for the Environment’s Draft
National Agenda for Sustainable Water Management. The purpose of this project was to
develop an information base concerning the ...
Adaptive management of groundwater in the Rakaia-Selwyn Groundwater Allocation Zone: technical and implementation issues
(Environment Canterbury., 2008-12)
This report recommends that a recharge-based groundwater management
method be implemented. We describe a groundwater management method based on annual supply of recharge. The method
varies the quantum of groundwater ...
Groundwater recharge interface and nitrate discharge: Central Canterbury, New Zealand
(Lincoln Ventures Ltd. Lincoln Environmental Research., 2005)
Regional surveys of groundwater quality in Central Canterbury, from 1977 to the present, show
widespread occurrence of nitrate contamination primarily from agricultural land use. Two reported analyses of
these surveys, in ...
The eigenvalue approach to groundwater modelling for resource evaluation at regional scale
(Lincoln Ventures Ltd., 2002-06)
The dynamic response of piezometric head at any location in an aquifer to time variation of
regional land surface recharge and abstraction can be expressed as a linear system comprising
only a few conceptual water storages. ...
How much streamflow is groundwater discharge? - a method for assessment
(Lincoln Ventures Ltd. Lincoln Environmental Research., 2004)
The question of how much streamflow originates from groundwater is relevant to
the issue of effects of land use on stream water quality. Whereas phosphorus
from agricultural land is transported primarily by overland flow, ...