Improving the economic and environmental performance of a New Zealand hill country pastoral catchment
Low‐altitude steeplands managed for moderately intensive pastoralism cover some 4 million ha of the North Island of New Zealand.The relatively young geology of the lithosphere, combined with a moist‐temperate climate and the relatively recent removal of the broadleaf‐conifer forest for grassland development combine to present significant challenges for the physical sustainability of livestock farming.However, a combination of the benign climate, historically favourable policy and commodity systems, and the application of technological advances has contributed to overcoming these limitations.Since the mid 1980s, a number of forces have interacted to bring the sustainability of hill country pastoral farming under renewed scrutiny, including commodity price trends, government rationalisation and a strengthening environmental management paradigm in the social context of the sector.
participatory integrated catchment management
M.B.Dodd M.E.Wedderburn T.G.Parminter B.S.Thorrold J.M.Quinn
AgResearch,Ruakura Research Centre,Private Bag 3123,Hamilton,New Zealand Dexcel,New Zealand National Institute of Water and A tmospheric Research,New Zealand
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）