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This case study describes a causal linkage model between practices on dairy farms and on-farm and in-stream values in Bog Burn, Southland.
Under the Smart Heat Programme, subsidies are provided towards the costs of retrofitting insulation and/or installing clean heating for pre-2000 houses.
After the 2004 storm the Council is currently examining options to reduce hill country erosion risk and one of the first tasks is to (better) define and identify land that is highly erodible.
Estimates are made using NZ-FARM of changes in net revenue, land use, enterprise mix, and environmental outputs when landowners in the Hurunui plains sub-catchment must reduce their aggregate nitrogen and phosphorous loading targets of 15% and 30% below baseline levels.
Four New Zealand scenarios are presented which range from an increasingly insular society that finds little benefit in diversity other than separating ‘winners and losers’ to one where multi-cultural aspects are heralded as a cornerstone of the nation’s identity.
The key questions that were of interest to Waipa DC with respect to draft Growth Strategy were: