Co-ordinated Monitoring of New Zealand Wetlands:
Māori environmental performance indicators for wetland condition and trend
A Ministry for the Environment SMF Project - No.5105
Garth Harmsworth Email 
Landcare Research,
Private Bag 11-052,
Palmerston North,
New Zealand
[Reference as: Harmsworth, G. 2002: Coordinated Monitoring of New Zealand Wetlands, Phase Two, Goal 2: Māori environmental performance indicators for wetland condition and trend. Landcare Research Report : LC 0102/099, Landcare Research, New Zealand. ]
Contents:
Executive Summary
1. Introduction
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1.1 Project overview
1.2 Progress reports
1.3 Māori and wetlands
1.4 Previous hui
1.5 Confidentiality, ownership, and use of intellectual property
1.6 Māori environmental monitoring
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2.1 Introduction
2.2 Māori participation in the MfE EPI programme
2.3 MfE approach for developing Māori EPIs
2.4 Conceptual frameworks for Māori environmental monitoring
2.5 Environmental Performance Indicators
2.6 Definition of a Māori Environmental Performance Indicator
2.7 Types of Māori EPIs
2.8 Examples of MEPIs
2.9 Identifying and developing Māori indicators
2.10 Criteria for selecting an effective Māori indicator
2.11 Māori environmental performance indicators for wetland condition and trend
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3.1 Introduction
3.2 Māori concepts
3.3 Wetland scientific classification systems
3.4 Frameworks for developing Māori indicators
3.5 Wetland study sites
3.6 Māori wetland indicator methodology
3.7 Complementary monitoring approaches
3.8 Criteria used to determine key Māori indicators
3.9 Taonga lists and inventories
3.10 Inventories of unwanted flora and fauna species
3.11 Assessment of Mauri
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4.1 Results
4.2 Māori wetland indicators
4.3 Cultural Sensitivity
4.4 Naturalness models
4.5 Using the pressure-state-response model
4.6 The P-S-R model for Māori indicators
4.7 Summary
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5.1 Why should environmental monitoring
be carried out?
5.2 Future environmental monitoring
5.3 Information systems
5.4 State of the Environment Reporting
5.5 Environmental projects
7. Acknowledgements
8. References
9. Appendices
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Appendix 1: Māori terminology for wetlands
Appendix 2: Māori wetlands classification framework
Appendix 3: Weeds and Pests Table
Appendix 4: List of tangata whenua and other contacts
Appendix 4: Other contacts for Māori environmental monitoring
Appendix 4: Other contacts for wetlands
Appendix 5: Māori environmental monitoring sheet
List of Tables and Figures:
Table 1 Māori terms for the main
"level 1" wetland types
Table 2 Wetland trial sites and
iwi or hapu involved
Table 3 Criteria matrix method for
selecting Māori knowledge-based wetland indicators
Table 4 Taonga lists
Table 5 Examples of unwanted (e.g.,
introduced, exotic) flora and fauna
Table 6 Examples of some of the
numerous factors taken into consideration when assessing mauri
Table 7 Māori indicators: original
wetland monitoring form sent out for comment June-November 2001
Table 8 Complementary monitoring
approaches
Fig. 1 Māori indicators from Appendix
5 could be represented in radar maps
Fig. 2 Māori indicators from Appendix
5 could be shown simply for each axis of a chart or diagram
Fig. 3 Māori indicators could be
represented through bar charts
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