Bridging the gap between environmental knowledge and research, and desired environmental outcomes to achieve sustainable land management
November 2007
Project management:Brian Bell (Nimmo-Bell & Company Ltd) |
Report authors:Di Buchan (Corydon Consultants Limited) |
The purpose of this research is to draw out key lessons on how science and environmental knowledge have been used in the past to achieve desired environmental outcomes. The role that policy and technology transfer play in this dynamic is central to this objective.
The report in Phase One of this study is broken into three parts:
- a summary of theories and models relating to behaviour change, particularly related to land management
- a review of overseas approaches to integrating science in environmental policy making
- an historical analysis of New Zealand's experience in managing three current environmental issues - soil erosion, pest control and nitrogen management.
Phase One highlights some key lessons for policy makers and land management programme designers. In particular it identifies those factors which seem to be most influential in the achievement of environmentally sustainable land management practices.
Phase Two tested and evaluated the conclusions reached in Phase One for relevance to the New Zealand context by analysing the results of in-depth case studies undertaken around the country in each of the three topic areas of soil erosion, pest control and nitrogen management.
- Download Phase Two document as a pdf file
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PDF 1.4M
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- Appendices
[PDF 655K
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- Abstract
- Executive Summary
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