- Objective Title:Managing information and knowledge for the management of tussock grasslands
- Objective Title: Indicators and condition assessment tools
8.4 Semi-Arid Land
8.4.1
| Objective Title:Managing information and knowledge for the management of tussock grasslands Programme Leader:Mr W Allen and Dr O Bosch Institution/Business: Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research |
Aim:To create a learning environment which maximised the availability of quantitative and qualitative knowledge for different levels of decision-making, through the continual enhancement of a decision support system (DSS) module on tussock grassland (including hieracium) management, thereby facilitating the adoption of more sustainable management practices, by:
- community understanding of the context in which data and information is provided, to maximise its value (transforming data and information into useful knowledge), and to reduce community conflict through workshops;
- the DSS module with new useful knowledge;
- appropriate links and pathways within the DSS module to ensure its relevance to end-users; and
- and documenting the lessons learnt through this participatory approach, to improve the adoption of new technologies and practices, in this and other biophysical and social settings.
8.4.2
| Objective Title: Indicators and condition assessment tools Research Leader: Mr R Gibson and Dr O Bosch Institution/Business: Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research |
Aim:Complete the development of user-friendly tools to allow land managers to measure their progress towards sustainable management, and to provide a basis for active adaptive management by:
- analysis and construction of condition assessment models from data that has already been collected in conjunction with the Rural Futures Trust during the 1995/96 summer; and
- where possible, generic models for the entire high country using existing data sets and personal knowledge of researchers. Field checks will be carried out to confirm applicability of constructed models.
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