The 1st step to healthy ecosystems: Application of a new integrated assessment framework informs stream management in the Tukituki catchment, New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 635-651
Author(s):  
Joanne E. Clapcott ◽  
Roger G. Young ◽  
Andy S. Hicks ◽  
Alexandra N. Haidekker
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Stream Management

scholarly journals Towards the integrated assessment of New Zealand pastoral farm systems

2016 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 103-108
Author(s):  
M.B. Dodd ◽  
D.R. Stevens
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Complex Adaptive System ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Resource Owner ◽  
Farm Systems ◽  
Complex Adaptive ◽  
Land Use And Management ◽  
Farm System ◽  
The Impact

Land use and management change is a feature of New Zealand farm systems, driven by a range of factors including volatile markets and exchange rates, variable weather and climate patterns, continuous policy evolution and the inherent innovation of New Zealand farmers. Yet the common indicators used to evaluate the impact of change appear to be limited to the link between productivity (of land/labour/capital) and profitability. However, if farm system "owners" seek truly sustainable systems they should consider a wider set of indicators to guide investment. Sustainability is considered in terms of the ability of the pastoral farm system to fulfil its primary purpose in the long-term, i.e. "to derive value from the natural capital of a land and water resource that is sufficient to support the objectives of the resource owner" and fulfil secondary objectives considered important by other stakeholders (e.g., product and environmental quality). The objective of this study was to develop an integrated assessment framework for sustainability indicators that was useful for guiding change decisions at the farm system scale, a key determinant of regional economic, environmental and social outcomes. The approach is based on the fundamental properties of a complex adaptive system: existence, effectiveness, freedom of action, security, adaptability and coexistence, applied to six key system drivers (financial, environmental, social, cultural, technological and regulatory). This framework could support decision-making in terms of the investment of human, natural and financial capital at the farm system scale and contribute to larger scale information imperatives (e.g., value chains, catchments). Keywords: integrated assessment, pastoral farm systems, sustainability, systems properties

scholarly journals Socially responsible research processes for sustainability transformation: an integrated assessment framework

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katrin Daedlow ◽  
Aranka Podhora ◽  
Markus Winkelmann ◽  
Jürgen Kopfmüller ◽  
Rainer Walz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Sustainability Transformation ◽  
Responsible Research

scholarly journals "The Art of the Achievable": An Examination of Heritage Assessment Practice at the Department of Conservation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Kayla Wilson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Assessment Practice ◽  
Assigned Value

<p>This dissertation examines heritage assessment at the New Zealand Department of Conservation. It explores the heritage assessment process through two central research questions: ‘What is the state of current heritage assessment at the Department of Conservation?’ and ‘What place and form could heritage assessments have and take in future practice at the Department of Conservation?’ Responding to a gap in the literature and lack of critical analysis of the heritage assessment procedure in the New Zealand context, the research considers the ways in which heritage assessment is carried out and examines heritage assessment as a tool through which heritage is understood and assigned value and significance. The timeliness of this work is highlighted by the currently few existing evaluations providing a critical analysis of the heritage assessment procedure in New Zealand.  This research employs an interdisciplinary theoretical framework developed from the literature of heritage studies and its related fields, in particular history and archaeology. This study is framed with reference to the postmodern theoretical paradigm of ‘authorised heritage discourse’ and critical realism, and employs a mixed method approach to the research, and employs documentary analysis and interviews with current staff working with historic heritage at the Department of Conservation.  The main finding emerging from this research is that heritage assessment is an essential, if not pivotal, but under-utilised element of heritage management, and that appropriate outcomes for heritage can only be reached through a more effective heritage assessment framework. The dissertation concludes that currently the Department of Conservation heritage assessment framework fails to achieve this to a suitable standard, makes several recommendations for change, and argues that it is only by addressing the situation DOC will be able to deliver maximum outcomes for heritage in an increasingly resource-constrained environment – and continue to accomplish sustainable heritage management, what one respondent called ‘the art of the achievable’.</p>

scholarly journals Integrated assessment frameworks for evaluating large scale river corridor restoration

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shane Orchard
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Floodplain Restoration ◽  
The Third ◽  
Specific Objective ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
River Corridor

This report is the third and final report in the Ecological Regeneration Options (ERO) project series. Its purpose is to assist in developing integrated assessment methodologies for evaluating ecological regeneration options in the Avon-Ōtākaro Red Zone (AORZ). This is an important topic to ensure that their potential benefits are recognised alongside those of alternative land uses. This report complements the previous two reports in the ERO series. These provide information on floodplain restoration principles (Orchard, 2017) and an assessment of restoration opportunities in the AORZ using a local knowledge approach (Orchard et al., 2017).The focus of this report is on facilitating robust assessments of the ecological regeneration options presented by the AORZ. A specific objective was to develop an integrated assessment framework to support comparison of those options against each other and against alternative land uses. First, the topics of river corridor evaluation and integrated assessment are briefly introduced and examples of integrated assessment in relevant planning contexts identified. A framework for the integrated assessment of ecological regeneration options is then presented.

INTARESE: Integrated Assessment Framework for Estimating the Health Effects of Climate Change

Epidemiology ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. S264
Author(s):  
R S. Kovats ◽  
F de Donato ◽  
M Pascal ◽  
P Michelozzi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Assessment Framework

scholarly journals A multi-scale urban integrated assessment framework for climate change studies: A flooding application

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 229-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alistair Ford ◽  
Stuart Barr ◽  
Richard Dawson ◽  
James Virgo ◽  
Michael Batty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Multi Scale

scholarly journals An integrated assessment framework for climate change and infectious diseases.

1999 ◽  
Vol 107 (5) ◽  
pp. 329-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Y Chan ◽  
K L Ebi ◽  
F Smith ◽  
T F Wilson ◽  
A E Smith
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Integrated Assessment ◽  
Assessment Framework
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