The CLUES Project: Predicting the Effects of Land-use on Water Quality – Stage II
Project Objectives
The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF), in association with Ministry for the Environment (MfE), has engaged NIWA and five subcontractors (Lincoln Ventures, Harris Consulting, AgResearch, HortResearch, Landcare Research) on a project to address the effects of land-use change on water quality.
This report covers the second year of a 3-year project. The objective of this project is to develop, under a series of contracts over several years, a computer-based GIS Decision Support Tool that is nationally applicable, relevant on regional and catchment scales, and takes account of socio-economic impacts Its purpose is to assess the links between rural land-use, land use change, and catchment-level effects on surface and groundwater quality..
The project is intended to provide a “sustainable development” context allowing for community, social and economic inputs in assessing the effects of land use and land use change on water quality.
The objectives above are to be achieved by delivering progress reports and computer-based methods which the stakeholders can use to make these assessments. NIWA and its subcontractors will deliver the executable programs and associated documentation needed to make these assessments, and will also deliver copies of computer source code that is created wholly within this project.
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