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Opportunities and challenges for multicriteria assessment of food system sustainability
The focus of the Special Feature on “Multicriteria assessment of food system sustainability” is on the complex challenges of making and communicating overall assessments of food systems sustainability based on multiple and ...
The Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability Programme: The Design of A Longitudinal and Transdisciplinary Study of Agricultural Sustainability in New Zealand
This report provides an overview of the key design features of the Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) programme. This ongoing long-term research project started in 2003, involving a group of around 20 ...
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 ...
The New Zealand sustainability dashboard: unified monitoring and learning for sustainable agriculture in New Zealand
The New Zealand Sustainability Dashboard project will develop a sustainability assessment and reporting tool in partnership with five primary industry sectors in New Zealand. Internationally recognised frameworks and their ...
Who is catching what? A survey of recreational fishing effort and success on the East Otago Taiāpure
He Kohinga Tangahau 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 ...
Performance versus Values in Sustainability Transformation of Food Systems
Questions have been raised on what role the knowledge provided by sustainability science actually plays in the transition to sustainability and what role it may play in the future. In this paper we investigate different ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...