This report summaries the published literature on land-use impacts on New Zealand's freshwater and coastal environments. The report is structured around pressure-state-impact relationships that link land-use pressures (eg, elevated contaminant loads and water abstraction) to changes in environmental state (eg, chemical-physical water quality and flow regime), and in turn, to impacts on ecological, social, cultural and economic values in New Zealand freshwater and marine environments.
This report summaries the published literature on land-use impacts on New Zealand's freshwater and coastal environments. The report is structured around pressure-state-impact relationships that link land-use pressures (eg, elevated contaminant loads and water abstraction) to changes in environmental state (eg, chemical-physical water quality and flow regime), and in turn, to impacts on ecological, social, cultural and economic values in New Zealand freshwater and marine environments.