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Environmental Education Directory
The Environmental Education Directory is a web-based listing of environmental education resources available throughout New Zealand.
Agency: Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Contact: Website |
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Investigation underway: Primary production and sustainability
New Zealand's natural environment - the country's biological assets - are the basis of much of its income. The primary production sector is crucially important to New Zealand's economy - particularly the more intensive sectors such as cropping, lowland pastoral farming, horticulture, viticulture and vegetable production. (February 2002 - Jan 2004)
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Creating our future: Sustainable development for New Zealand
New Zealand's natural environment - the country's biological assets - are the basis of much of its income. The primary production sector is crucially important to New Zealand's economy - particularly the more intensive sectors such as cropping, lowland pastoral farming, horticulture, viticulture and vegetable production. (February 2002 - Jan 2004)
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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The Resource Management Act and You: Getting in on the Act.
A short, simple guide on how the Resource Management Act works and how it might affect users.
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Local Agenda 21 in the United Kingdom.
A number of local authorities in New Zealand are seeking to implement Local Agenda 21 and advance sustainable development. This report discusses the implementation of Local Agenda 21 in the United Kingdom and raises a number of issues for New Zealand with regards to the implementation of Agenda 21.
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Side agreements in the resource management consent process, implications for environmental management
This investigation examines the environmental implications of agreements made between resource consent applicants and persons having the status of 'affected persons' under the RMA. By enabling applicants to circumvent statutory requirements e.g. public notification, side agreements may result in activities receiving consent without a proper assessment of environmental effects. Nov 1998
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Towards sustainable development. The role of the Resource Management Act 1991, PCE environmental management review No. 1
A review of the role of the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) and its contribution to New Zealand's sustainable development goals. The report raises strategic issues to contribute to the debate about achieving better environmental performance. August 1998
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Managing Rural Amenity Conflicts Ministry for the Environment, March 2001
This booklet is designed for District Councils who encounter frequent conflicts between people who live and work in the rural area about amenity issues. The booklet summarises key findings from the report Managing Rural Amenity Conflicts and suggests ideas for councils to address these issues.
Agency: MFE
Contact: Website |
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Sustainable Development - Turning Concept into Reality. (March 2003)
This report prepared by IPENZ provides an oversight of Sustainable Development. Progress towards a sustainable society is about ensuring that the development and use of new technologies respect the needs of the future - not about turning back the clock so that people cannot enjoy the benefits of existing technology. Part I of this note interprets the above definition of sustainable development in a realistic way, and explains how the thinking of engineers can contribute to practical sustainability policies. Part II, due for release later in 2003, will look in more detail at ways of achieving real progress towards being a sustainable society.
Agency: IPENZ
Contact: Website |
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Sustainable Fisheries: The Future of your Business
This is a guide to help the New Zealand fishing industry identify and better manage the interactions between fisheries and the marine environment. This resource does not promote one particular environmental performance standard. Rather, itintroduces an environmental assessment checklist and management options to enable fishers and fisheries managers to identify issues, determine goals, and monitor their progress towards those goals. This guide does not advocate a particular management option or set of tools, but promotes a range of options and tools from which fishers and fisheries managers can select those that will meet their needs.
Agency: New Zealand Seafood Industry Council,
Contact: Website |
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Standards, Guidelines, Technical Publications Used by Regional Council Consent Staff
document has a table including the author, title and date of each publication. These publications include topics on
- Land/soil quality (including landfills and underground storage tanks)
- Wastewater Treatment and Disposal (domestic, municipal and rural)
- Water (freshwater, coastal and stormwater)
- Groundwater and drilling
- Air
- Dams and other structures
- Earthworks and forestry
- Noise
Agency: Quality Planning
Contact: Website |
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Our Clean Green Image: Whats it worth
This report summarises the findings of the "Valuing New Zealand's clean green image" report. August 2001, Ref. ME405A
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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People Profit Planet
Policy issues and options around triple bottom line reporting. Feb 2001
Agency:Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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People Profit Planet
Policy issues and options around triple bottom line reporting. Feb 2001
Agency:Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Green Market Signals
MFE SMF Project - To produce a paper which provides information on international green market signals that may have an effect on New Zealand's export trade opportunities and risks
Agency:Ministry for the Environment
Contact: URS New Zealand Ltd, P O Box 821, Auckland, ph (09) 355-1300 |
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Quality Products from a Quality Environment
This paper discusses some of the key policy factors influencing the attainment of sustainable agriculture in practice. Some are reinforcing, some require balance, some create tension, and some require trade-offs. Not all apply to all sectors evenly; and they vary over time and with changing individual, community and industry circumstances.
Agency: MAF
Contact: Website |
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Role of On-Farm Quality Assurance and Environmental Management Systems in Achieving Sustainable Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management Outcomes - 9th February 1999.
This publication reports on research that investigated the linkages between on-farm Quality Assurance/Environmental Management Systems and the achievement of sustainable agriculture and sustainable land management. This evaluation will provide the basis from which future work programmes and project initiatives can be considered. The research also identifies ongoing policy, research and information needs related specifically to the Best Management Practices Work Programme.The research makes it clear that on-farm QA/EMS hold considerable potential for achieving sustainable outcomes, and suggests some priorities for government action to develop this potential. While not all these priorities are within the sphere of central government roles, they provide challenges which the sector could usefully address.
Agency: MAF
Contact: Website |
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New Zealand under siege: a review of the management of biosecurity risks to the environment
Biosecurity is as strategically important as national security when it comes to protecting New Zealand's key economic and environmental assets. We need to improve our biosecurity system to deal with pests and diseases that are capable of causing damage to New Zealand's unique natural resources and biotic economy.
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Muddied Waters - M Krausse, C Eastwood, & R R Alexander.
Estimating the national economic cost of soil erosion and sedimentation in New Zealand. Research on the economic impacts of soil erosion in New Zealand has focused on the on-site costs of soil loss in the form of production loss and storm damage. A greater understanding of the cost and relative ranking of impacts may help national policy-makers to consider private and societal responsibilities for erosion damage and preventative actions.
This report collates financial information on the on-site and off-site effects of soil erosion in New Zealand.
Agency: Landacre CRI
Contact: Website |
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Health and Safety in Employment Act - A Guide to
This is the second edition of what has become known as the Blue Guide. It has been revised to include the Health and Safety in Employment Amendment Act 2002.
Agency: Labour Department
Contact: Website |
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The State of New Zealand's Environment
This is the first comprehensive overview of the current state of New Zealand's environment. It examines what has been done to the environment, and what is being done now.
The book has three main parts. The first provides a context for understanding the interaction between New Zealand society and the natural environment. The second describes the state of the New Zealand natural environment, taking a close look at five main aspects: atmosphere, air quality, land, water, and biodiversity. The concluding chapter offers the report's main findings.
"The report gathers for the first time in one place data examining water and air quality, biodiversity and land-use. It comments on management of waste, energy, climate change, ozone depletion and pests. It also deals with transport and fisheries issues, and highlights the need for more standardised and wider-ranging data to better manage environmental issues. Its purpose was to inform New Zealanders about the state of their environment, and identify areas requiring improvement," - Ministry for the Environment
Agency: MFE
Contact: Website |
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Boggy Patch or ecological heritage? Valuing wetlands in Tasman
An investigation into Tasman District Council's (TDC) management of wetlands. The investigation reviews the international and national context for the sustainable management of wetlands at a strategic level. This includes consideration of: international conventions on wetlands (Ramsar); national initiatives on wetlands; Resource Management Act 1991 requirements; regional approaches to wetland management (other regional plans and non-regulatory programmes); and the contribution of wetlands to sustainable land use. (March 2002)
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Weaving resilience into our working lands: future roles for native plants on private land
A discussion paper on how New Zealand can extend and expand native plants on private land to improve the ecological sustainability of land use, increase the economic viability of primary industries, retain the biological diversity of indigenous species, and enhance the 'sense of place'. This paper explores the opportunities for, and barriers to, the expansion of native plants beyond conservation parks and reserves and into working landscapes. June 2001
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Irrigation Manual
Everything you need to know about irrigation management and technology is available in Environment Canterbury's Irrigation Manual. Topics covered include:Irrigation system management, including practical tips for different machines.
- Soil moisture monitoring systems and record keeping
- Options for system design, including advice on buying new equipment
- Regulatory requirements of regional councils throughout New Zealand
- Irrigation technology including new technology like variable frequency drives
- The importance of energy efficiency - and what to do about it
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy
The New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy fulfills in part, commitments New Zealand made under the Convention of Biological Diversity. It takes up the challenge to halt the decline of our indigenous biodiversity - our unique plants and animals and the places they live.
Agency: Department of Conservation
Contact: Website |
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Agri-Environmental Programmes in New Zealand 1st January 1997
The approach of the New Zealand Government towards agriculture and its effects on the environment has been to create a balanced and coherent policy environment which provides for sound environmental management undistorted by government funded agricultural support programmes
Agency: MAF
Contact: Website |
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Hazadous Waste Management
New Zealand's lack of effective and consistent controls on hazardous waste creates a major risk to the environment and has the potential to affect our 'clean green' image. For over a decade successive Governments have failed to address even the fundamental issues such as a legal definition of 'hazardous waste', which means that as a nation we know little about the quantities of hazardous waste we produce or the risks to the environment as we try and dispose of them. (MAY 1998)
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Hazadous Waste Management
New Zealand's lack of effective and consistent controls on hazardous waste creates a major risk to the environment and has the potential to affect our 'clean green' image. For over a decade successive Governments have failed to address even the fundamental issues such as a legal definition of 'hazardous waste', which means that as a nation we know little about the quantities of hazardous waste we produce or the risks to the environment as we try and dispose of them. (MAY 1998)
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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He rangahau ki te aria ko te Tiriti te putake e whakatuturutia ai nga tikanga mo te taiao - Exploring the concept of a Treaty based environmental audit framework.
This reports the findings of a scoping study undertaken through 2001 and early 2002 into the concept of a Treaty based environmental audit framework. The Commissioner's study was not intended to actually develop an audit framework, but to evaluate the concept, its potential applications in environmental management, and the principles and processes by which such a framework could be developed. July 2002
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Kaitiakitanga and local government: tangata whenua participation in environmental management
This study revisited an earlier investigation on guidelines for local authority consultation with tangata whenua. The report reviews progress made on tangata whenua involvement in Resource Management Act (RMA) processes and identifies a number of areas for improvement, particularly in the areas of processes followed and relationships between iwi and councils.
Agency: Parlimentary Commisioner for the Environment
Contact: Website |
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Integrating Environmental Best Management Practices into Dairy Systems
MFE SMF Project to - Utilise the dairy industry's principal extension service, to develop specialist discussion groups to focus on environmental best practices for dairy farmers. Water quality and quantity as initial environmental issues to these groups Identify what can be done and how to overcome on-farm barriers to implementing best environmental management practices Practical and action orientated, focused clearly on accelerated outcomes of actions on the ground. Focused on making available currently available knowledge and techniques to end-users.
Agency: Ministry for the Environment
Contact: Dexcel, Private Bag 3221, Hamilton |
