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Irrigation governance for success
As proposals develop with the Government support, Landcare Research staff have been investigating the key social factors for getting new irrigation schemes underway and the important ingredients f Continue Reading...
Relocating the Havelock North harakeke
Sue Scheele reflects on finding welcoming, new homes for lots of important flax bushes (harakeke). This winter, the aging Rene Orchiston flax collection at Havelock North was relocated and rev Continue Reading...
Transition Towns
Transition Towns initiatives are part of a vibrant, international grassroots movement that brings people together to explore how we – as communities - can respond to the environmental, economic an Continue Reading...
Collaborative Learning
Management is a distinctly human process. Social science in the ICM programme has developed and trialled tools and approaches that can be used by research groups, agency staff and other community Continue Reading...
LIUDD and the community; Talbot Park
Can intensive urban development be green? And how have local residents found living in an intensification suburb which has taken a low impact urban design approach? These were two questions that Lan Continue Reading...
Living roofs at the Auckland Botanic Gardens
Robyn Simcock and Elizabeth Fassman have installed funky 'living roofs' on the entrance to the children's garden and toilet block at the Auckland Botanic Gardens. These living roofs are not just Continue Reading...