This guidance supports local authorities to prepare housing and business development capacity assessments and undertake quarterly monitoring of market indicators, and use indicators of price efficiency.

This report measures the quality of New Zealand's waterways; water quantity and flows; biodiversity in rivers and lakes; and the cultural health of fresh water. It is the first dedicated report on fresh water in New Zealand’s Environmental Reporting Series and will be a baseline for tracking change over time. The report will support policy...

Based on key findings from Environment Aotearoa 2015, this booklet includes a set of outcomes that detail the long-term environmental goals and intermediate targets that will encourage New Zealand's economic, social and cultural prosperity without compromising the environment for future generations.

This report provides an overall picture of New Zealand's environment across the air, atmosphere and climate, fresh water, land, and marine domains and shows interactions between each domain. It presents the human and natural pressures that cause changes to the state of these domains and the impacts these changes have on our environment, economy and...

Summary: To help identify and understand air quality issues at the national level, this paper presents information on changes in New Zealand’s air quality over time, and the associated pressures and impacts. The report includes data to 2012. Data for 2013 was not available for all our national indicators and case studies, or could not...