How to read this table

Information on the fitness for purpose table

• Block / farm: Land managers, hapū, rural professionals
• Multi-farms (5+): Hapū / iwi, Pamu, banks, industry organisations, irrigation companies
• Catchment: Regional Council (RC) staff, catchment group
• National / regional: RC planner, RC scientist, government analyst, industry analyst

Types of user applications / questions

Operational: What can you do with this?

• Farm scale example: Changing land use on a farm to this crop
• Regional scale example: Prohibiting land uses in a particular area

Absolute: How big / significant / bad / much / etc is this?

• Farm scale example: understanding the environmental impact of this crop in this block
• Regional scale example: Understanding cumulative impact of land uses and mitigations

Relative: Is this better / smaller / more / etc than that?

• Farm scale example: Understanding relative resilience of land use options
• Regional scale example: Assessing environmental / economic relativity between land uses / soil types / catchments

Screening (or scoping): Is this interesting / worth considering further?

• Farm scale example: Screening for possible land use options on land block
• Regional scale example: Identify the priority areas.