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The BEST Symposium was held in Wellington on 1 May 2019. The management of New Zealand's natural resources continues to be an important issue with diverse experiences and emergent challenges for agencies and communities across the country. Over the last 6 years, the Building biodiversity into an ecosystem service-based approach for resource management (BEST) research programme has been a part of this journey and has much to share.
Our research has focused on how to make integrated decisions where multiple issues need to be addressed, rather than dealing with issues individually. The framing used for this research is around natural capital, biodiversity, and ecosystem flows to integrate across scales and issues.
The Symposium brought together key stakeholders from research, regional councils, central government, Māori organisations, and industry sectors to learn about the research findings, to discuss how these approaches could be used to address the challenges of today and tomorrow, and to identify constraints to using these more integrated approaches to decisions
Symposium presentation and notes
- pdf Presentation 1: What is the relationship between landcover/land use and supply of ecosystem services – what do we know and where are there still gaps? Jason Tylianakis and Carla Gómez, University of Canterbury pdf File, 1.6 MB
- pdf Notes: Incorporating biodiversity and ecosystem service in decision-making – lessons for land use planning and biodiversity restoration from applications in 2 catchments. pdf File, 191 KB
- pdf Presentation 2: Te weu o te kaitiaki: The roots of the guardian – applying a Maori worldview and biocultural monitoring approaches. Phil Lyver and Puke Timoti (Tuhoe Tuawhenua Trust) pdf File, 913 KB
- pdf Notes: The roots of the guardian – applying a Maori worldview and biocultural monitoring approaches. pdf File, 196 KB
- pdf Presentation 3: Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into farm planning. Alec Mackay, AgResearch and Fleur Maseyk, The Catalyst Group pdf File, 2 MB
- pdf Notes: Integrating biodiversity and ecosystem services into farm planning. pdf File, 210 KB
- pdf Presentation 4: Incorporating biodiversity and ecosystem service in decision-making – lessons for land use planning and biodiversity restoration from applications in 2 catchments. Suzie Greenhalgh pdf File, 1.4 MB
- pdf Notes: Incorporating biodiversity and ecosystem service in decision-making – lessons for land use planning and biodiversity restoration from applications in 2 catchments. pdf File, 191 KB
- pdf BEST symposium workshop report. pdf File, 488 KB