Data Visualisation for New Zealand Forestry

Report Prepared for the New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry The Role and Significance of Cooperatives in New Zealand Agriculture: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

PuMe — INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT EMPLOYING THE PIPEQUAL MODEL FOR FOREST GROWTH AND WOOD QUALITY*

Process-based models have advanced to a level which enables their utilisation for evaluating forest management options, as well as their use in environmental education. To date, such applications are relatively rare, but they could be promoted by means of appropriate interactive and user-oriented interfaces for model simulation. The PuMe-software has been constructed as an interactive tool for ...

Comparison of work related fatal injuries in the United States, Australia, and New Zealand: method and overall findings.

OBJECTIVES To compare the extent, distribution, and nature of fatal occupational injury in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. SETTING Workplaces in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. METHODS Data collections based on vital records were used to compare overall rates and distribution of fatal injuries covering the period 1989-92 in Australia and the United States, and ...

Genuine Savings as a Test of New Zealand Weak Sustainability

The key aims of this paper are to: i) to extend the World Bank’s (WB) measure of Genuine Savings (GS) for New Zealand by using a longer time-series of data, 1950 – 2015; ii) improve GS estimates for New Zealand by adding additional dimensions to GS i.e. forestry; iii) investigate the relationship between several GS measures and the discounted values of GDP per capita and consumption per capita,...

Allergic contact dermatitis from exposure to Grevillea robusta in New Zealand.

There are a number of reports in the literature of allergic contact dermatitis as a result of exposure to the sawdust and plant parts of Grevillea robusta. While this tree is prevalent in New Zealand, there seems to have been no previous published accounts of contact dermatitis, although anecdotal evidence indicates that such cases may be common. Two brief case reports are provided regarding se...