| Key Achievements |
2014/15 (planned) |
2014/15 (actual) |
| Mainstreaming ecosystem services in decision making – Outcomes 2 and 4 |
$0.41 |
$0.39 |
- Advanced the case for stakeholders’ ability to take into account the full range of ecosystem services in environmental decision making, by:
- providing further evidence for mainstreaming ecosystem services into policy and planning. This was illustrated using Special Housing Areas under the Auckland Plan (in partnership with Auckland Council);
- scoping new research to assess how people use monetary, quantitative (non monetary) and qualitative data;
- augmenting the New Zealand Landscape Database by adding enhanced protected areas data, historic LINZ topographic data, time series of parcel data, and up to date AgriBase data;
- making technical improvements to LUMASS to improve the usability of modelling framework, including exporting to the Windows operating environment, implementation of the CenW model as a demonstration, and application to several spatial optimisation studies.
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| Responding to climate change pressures – Outcomes 3 and 4 |
$0.18 |
$0.21 |
- Improved New Zealand’s ability to assess the implications of environmental policy by:
- recalibrating the CLiMAT-DGE baseline to align with government economic growth and greenhouse gas emissions projections. This enabled us to successfully model potential climate policy scenarios to support New Zealand during international climate negotiations;
- conducting independent analysis of the implications of different approaches for allocating nutrient reductions in two catchments using NZ FARM. This provided insight on challenging issues in water policy;
- enhancing knowledge of how people interact with green infrastructure and disseminating it to international and local audiences;
- developing methods to bring climate change adaptation into everyday decision making.
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| The governance of complex systems – Outcome 4 |
$0.29 |
$0.33 |
- Enhanced capability and profile to support New Zealand's evolving environmental governance system by:
- developing capacity and skill to increase research undertaken on the human dimensions of environmental science;
- recruiting and supporting emerging Maori research scientists, which led to uptake of a matauranga Maori and science framework model;
- increasing the credibility of economic environmental modelling (e.g. ARLUNZ) and other research that support land use decisions by publishing in international, peer reviewed literature; and increasing end user engagement (e.g. with MfE) and uptake through multiple conference and seminar presentations.
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