| ACC |
Accident Compensation Commission |
www.acc.co.nz |
| ACVM |
Animal Compounds and Veterinary Medicines; usually refers to the Act of this name |
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| AEC |
Animal Ethics Committee |
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| AHB |
Animal Health Board |
www.ahb.org.nz |
| BusinessNZ |
New Zealand's largest advocacy group for enterprise, and champions policies |
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| CAPEX |
Capital expenditure; funding spent to acquire or improve long-term assets, such as property or equipment |
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| carboNZeroCertTM |
Programme that encourages and supports individuals and organisations to minimise their impacts on climate change by providing tools to measure, manage and mitigate CO2 emissions. The Programme is run by carboNZero Holdings ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Landcare Research |
www.carbonzero.co.nz |
| CBD |
Convention on Biological Diversity |
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| CCAMLR |
Commission for Conservation of Antarctic Marine and Living Resources |
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| CCMAU |
Crown Company Monitoring and Advisory Unit; was a Government agency and has now been replaced by COMU |
www.ccmau.govt.nz |
| CEA |
Collective employment agreement |
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| CEMARS |
Certified Emissions Management and Reduction Scheme |
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| CEP |
Commission on Environmental Protection |
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| COMU |
Crown Ownership Monitoring Unit This unit within Treasury monitors the government’s investment in companies/entities owned by the Crown, assists with the appointment of directors, and provides performance and governance advice to Ministers. |
www.comu.govt.nz |
| COP |
Code of practice |
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| CoRE |
Centre of Research Excellence; administered through the Tertiary Education Commission |
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| CRI |
Crown Research Institute: a Government-owned, independent, research company; New Zealand has seven CRIs that were formed in 1992 from a re-organisation of government science |
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| CSIRO |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Australia) |
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| CUES |
Centre of Urban Ecosystem Sustainability—Landcare Research and the University of Auckland |
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| DairyNZ |
DairyNZ is the ‘industry good’ organisation, representing New Zealand's dairy farmers |
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| DOC |
Department of Conservation |
www.doc.govt.nz |
| DSIR |
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research; one of the predecessors of CRIs |
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| EBEX21® |
Emissions/Biodiversity Exchange in the 21st century. |
www.ebex21.co.nz |
| EBEX21® credits |
A measure of land purchased to offset greenhouse gas emissions by carbon storage in vegetation |
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| EBIT |
Earnings before interest and tax |
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| Ecosystem services |
The 'free' services that healthy ecosystems provide e.g. Clean water, fertile soil, storm water retention, erosion prevention |
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| EECA |
Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority; a Government agency |
www.eeca.govt.nz |
| E-Manage |
A system developed by EBEX21® for businesses to measure energy use and CO2 emissions |
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| EMS |
Environment Management System |
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| End user |
Organisations, entities and people who apply the information and recommendations arising out of our research |
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| Environmental limits |
The point at which ecosystem services collapse, e.g. the soil's biological community is depleted to the extent that they can no longer replenish nutrients |
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| EPA |
Environmental Protection Authority, a Government agency that administers applications for major infrastructure projects of national significance, and regulates new organisms (plants, animals, GM organisms) and hazardous substances and chemicals. The EPA also administers the Emissions Trading Scheme and New Zealand Emission Unit Register. |
www.epa.govt.nz |
| ERMA NZ |
New Zealand’s Environmental Risk Management Authority; a Government agency that has now been replaced by EPA |
www.ermanz.govt.nz |
| ESDB |
Ecosystem Services Database |
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| ESR |
Environmental Science & Research; a CRI |
www.esr.cri.nz |
| ETS |
Emissions Trading Scheme |
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| ETS |
emissions trading scheme |
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| FAR |
Foundation for Arable Research |
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| FRI |
Forest Research Institute, predecessor of Scion,a CRI Forest Research Institute was also a previous government department, one of those that CRIs were formed from |
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| FRST |
Foundation for Research, Science and Technology, predecessor of Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, MBIE |
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| FTE |
Full-time equivalent; a measure for equating part-time staff hours to full-time employees |
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| GBIF |
Global Biodiversity Information Facility |
www.gbif.org.nz |
| GHG |
greenhouse gases |
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| GIAB |
Growth and Innovation Advisory Board; a Government agency |
www.giab.govt.nz |
| GIS |
Geographic information systems used for integrating multiple layers of data with typical outputs in the form of maps |
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| GM |
Genetically modified |
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| Govt3 |
A MFE programme to help agencies improve sustainability of Crown-owned agencies and departments |
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| GPS |
Global positioning system |
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| GRI |
Global Reporting Initiative |
www.globalreporting.org |
| GSM |
Global system for mobile communications Also the Global Soil Map |
www.globalsoilmap.net |
| GST |
Goods & Services Tax |
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| HPC |
High Performance Computing |
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| HSNO |
Hazardous Substances and New Organisms; usually refers to the Act of this name |
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| ICANZ |
Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand |
www.icanz.co.nz |
| ICBN |
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature |
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| ICM |
Integrated Catchment Management |
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| ICMP |
International Collection of Micro-organisms from Plants; bacterial and fungal cultures |
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| ICZN |
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature |
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| IEA |
Individual employment agreement |
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| IFRS |
International financial reporting standards |
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| IPBES |
Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem |
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| IRAP |
Integrated research for aquifer protection |
www.irap.net |
| ISO14000 |
International certification standard for environmental management systems and practices |
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| IT |
Information technology; e.g., computing systems |
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| Kaitiakitanga |
Traditional guardianship of natural resources |
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| KAREN |
Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network |
www.karen.net.nz |
| KPI |
Key Performance Indicator |
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| LCDB |
Land Cover Database |
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| LED |
Light-emitting diode |
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| LENZ |
Land Environments of New Zealand; classification system developed by Landcare Research and MfE |
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| LiDAR |
Light Detection And Ranging (an optical remote sensing technology) |
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| LINZ |
Land Information New Zealand |
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| LIUDD |
Low-impact urban design and development |
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| LLC |
Limited liability company |
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| LRIS |
Land Resource Information Systems; incorporates resource and soils databases |
http://lris.scinfo.org.nz |
| LUDB |
Land Use Database |
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| MAF |
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, predecessor of what is now the Ministry for Primary Industries |
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| Mātauranga |
Traditional cultural knowledge |
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| MBIE |
Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, MBIE |
www.mbie.govt.nz |
| MED |
Ministry of Economic Development |
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| MFE |
Ministry for the Environment |
www.mfe.govt.nz |
| MNZCCM |
New Zealand Centre for Conservation Management |
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| MoRST |
Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, one of the predecessors of Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment |
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| MOU |
Memorandum of Understanding |
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| MPI |
Ministry for Primary Industries which has replaced MAF |
www.mpi.govt.nz |
| MSFE |
More stable funding environment |
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| MSI |
Ministry of Science and Innovation, , predecessor of Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. (MSI still applies to the Government Ministerial Portfolio) |
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| NCRIS |
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy |
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| NeSI |
National e-Science Infrastructure |
www.nesi.org.nz |
| NGO |
Non-governmental organisation |
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| NIWA |
National Institute of Water & AtmosphericResearch; a CRI |
www.niwa.co.nz |
| NLRC |
National Land Resources Centre |
www.nlrc.org.nz |
| NNCC |
National Network of Commercialisation Centres |
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| NSAT |
Net surplus after tax; a standard accounting term |
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| NSOF |
Non-specific Output Funding: discretionary revenue from FRST; from 2005, replaced by Capability Fund which in turn has been replaced by a Core Funding agreement |
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| NT |
No target |
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| NZAC |
New Zealand Arthropod Collection |
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| NZAid |
New Zealand International Aid and Development Agency |
www.nzaid.govt.nz |
| NZOR |
New Zealand Organisms Register |
www.nzor.org.nz |
| NZTE |
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise |
www.nzte.govt.nz |
| OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
www.oecd.org |
| OSGeo |
The Open Source Geospatial Foundation |
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| Partners |
Key stakeholders with whom we work directly, and who fund and use our research. |
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| PGST |
A term previously used to mean public-good science and technology; research in the public interest funded by FRST. Has been superseded by the Statement of Core Purpose and National Outcomes for NZ |
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| PSA |
Public Service Association |
www.psa.org.nz |
| QE II Trust |
Helps landowners protect significant natural and cultural features |
www.nationaltrust.org.nz |
| RMA |
Resource Management Act |
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| RS&T |
Research, Science and Technology |
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| RSNZ |
Royal Society of New Zealand |
www.rsnz.org |
| SCI |
Statement of Corporate Intent; produced annually for the shareholding ministers, outlines our core business, performance measures and targets for the next 5 years (the annual report covers performance against the SCI) |
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| SLURI |
Sustainable Land Use Research Initiative; a collaboration between four CRIs |
www.sluri.org.nz |
| S-map |
Digital soil map for New Zealand |
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| Stakeholders |
The wider community indirectly affected or impacted by our work. |
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| TFBIS |
Terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity information system |
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| TNC |
The Nature Conservancy |
www.nature.org |
| TPK |
Te Puni Kōkiri |
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| UHF |
Ultra-high frequency |
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| UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
www.unep.org |
| VHF |
Very high frequency |
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