Search
Now showing items 11-20 of 21
Preferences for Management of Near-Shore Marine Ecosystems: A Choice Experiment in New Zealand
There is considerable interest in New Zealand in establishing “Customary Management Areas” (taiāpure and mātaitai) and Marine Reserves to support Māori cultural practices and restore declining biodiversity and fish stocks. ...
Ngāi Tahu Marine Cultural Health Index 2013 User Manual
He Kōhinga Rangahau is the research report series of Te Tiaki Mahinga Kai, a national coalition of tangata kaitiaki, researchers, and managers dedicated to sustained enhancement of the cultural, economic, social, and ...
Key biocultural values to guide restoration action and planning in New Zealand
A pluralist and cross-cultural approach that accommodates differing values while encouraging the collaboration and social cohesion necessary for the complex task of ecological restoration is needed. We used qualitative and ...
Are Organic Standards Sufficient to Ensure Sustainable Agriculture? Lessons From New Zealand’s ARGOS and Sustainability Dashboard Projects
Our review concludes that organic standards need to account for a broader set of criteria in order to retain claims
to ‘sustainability’. Measurements of the ecological, economic and social outcomes from over 96 ...
When experts disagree: the need to rethink indicator selection for assessing sustainability of agriculture
Sustainability indicators are well recognized for their potential to assess and monitor sustainable development of agricultural systems. A large number of indicators are proposed in various sustainability assessment ...
Assessment of soil properties and earthworms in organic and conventional farming systems after seven years of dairy farm conversions in New Zealand
Environmental degradation and consumer awareness are raising concerns about the sustainability of conventional farming while increasing interest in organic farming as an alternative food and fiber production. Well-replicated ...
Optimising survey effort to monitor environmental variables: A case study using New Zealand kiwifruit orchards
Environmental monitoring is increasingly used to assess spatial and temporal trends in agricultural sustainability, and test the effectiveness of farm management policies. However, detecting changes in environmental variables ...
Evaluation of a dairy agri-environmental programme for restoring woody green infrastructure
Pastoral landscape woody vegetation provides ecosystem services, but potentially competes for space, light and nutrients that could provide additional farm production. A questionnaire determined the values and behaviours ...
Building biocultural approaches into Aotearoa – New Zealand’s conservation future
Indigenous peoples’ roles in conservation are important because they
offer alternate perspectives and knowledge centred on the quality of
the human–environment relationship. Here, we present examples of
Māori cultural ...
Spatiotemporal habitat use by breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus
Breeding sooty shearwaters Puffinus griseus cycle between long (11 to 14 d) and short (1 to 2 d) foraging bouts at sea, but no information exists on bird behavior during these trips. We tested the hypothesis that shearwaters ...