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Between two worlds: Maori values and environmental decision-making
(Lincoln College, University of Canterbury, 1986)
This study investigates the way in which Maori values are incorporated into environmental decision-making. Recently, the implementation of large resource developments have drawn protest from Maori communities and focussed ...
Social assessment : theory, process and techniques
(Centre for Resource Management, 1990-08)
Impetus in New Zealand for the development of theory, process, and techniques of social assessment comes from major social change. This change has been in the restructuring and reform of the public service and the resource ...
Hydrogeological support for the Orari environmental flow and water allocation plan
(Environment Canterbury, 2011-02)
An environmental flow and water allocation plan is being developed for the Orari River, South Canterbury. In 2006/07, an integrated field study of surface water shallow - groundwater was undertaken of the region. As part ...
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 ...
Delineation of the Rangitata riparian zone.
(Environment Canterbury., 2012-06)
A riparian zone aquifer is a groundwater system that is closely related to a surface water body. Water
resource management rules within a riparian zone might be tailored differently from rules outside such
a zone, to account ...
State of recreation at Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere 2013
A summary of the types of recreational activities participated on and around Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere.
Whither the Crown’s interest in South Island high country land reform?
(Victoria University of Wellington. Institute of Policy Studies., 2007)
The South Island high country has long been the subject of debate over resource use and ecological protection. Since early 2006, the ownership and relative value of property rights in high country pastoral leases have ...
Marine protection in the Ross Sea
(Lincoln University. Faculty of Environment, Society and Design. Department of Environmental Management., 2011-09)
At the bottom reaches of the earth lies an ecosystem still largely untouched by humans. The Ross Sea continental shelf ecosystem is found 155 degrees west longitude lying adjacent to the Antarctic continent, with depths ...
Community-based environmental management groups and the dynamic nature of success
(Lincoln University, 1998)
Community-based environmental management (CBEM) groups are increasingly being advocated as appropriate approaches to addressing local environmental problems in New Zealand. However, there is a lack of recognition and ...
Environmental auditing : the New Zealand response to an evolving discipline
(Lincoln University, 1991)
Following US trends, several companies in New Zealand are now carrying out environmental audits as a means of improving their environmental management. This type of auditing is distinct from environmental accounting, and ...