State of the environment publications

General publications | Best practice guides and guidelines | Technical reports | Consultation documents

General publications

Name	Date	Reference
Environment New Zealand 2007 information sheets	June 2008	INFO 280A - INFO 280J
Environment New Zealand 2007 – Summary	December 2007	ME848
Environment New Zealand 2007	December 2007	ME847
OECD Environmental Performance Review of NZ	April 2007	-
Reporting on our Environment	October 2006	INFO 169
Gentle Footprints: Boots 'n' All	May 2006	ME738
OECD Environmental Performance Review of NZ	September 2005	-
Land Environments of New Zealand	April 2003	-
Triple Bottom Line Pilot Report (full report and summaries)	December 2002	ME457 ME458 ME459 ME460
The State of New Zealand’s Environment 1997	1997	ME612

Best practice guides and guidelines

Name	Date	Reference
Using the Cultural Health Index: How to assess the health of streams and waterways	February 2006	ME711
Monitoring and Data Management Protocol: Environmental Indicators for Transport	May 2004	ME511
Kaimoana Survey Guidelines for Hapu and Iwi	October 2003	ME490 ME490A

Technical reports

Name	Date	Reference
An Assessment of Regional Council Water Quality Data (1996–2002) in Support of National State of Environment Reporting (ENZ07)	March 2008	CR33
Groundwater Quality in New Zealand: State and Trends 1995–2006	August 2007	ME832
Lake Water Quality in New Zealand: Status in 2006 and recent trends 1990–2006	August 2007	ME831
Snapshot of Lake Water Quality in New Zealand	November 2006	ME776
Snapshot of Water Allocation in New Zealand	November 2006	ME782
State and Trends in the National River Water Quality Network (1989-2005)	November 2006	ME778
A Cultural Health Index for Streams and Waterways: A tool for nationwide use	April 2006	ME710
The New Zealand Marine Environment Classification	June 2005	ME594
Nationwide and regional state and trends in river water quality 1996-2002	February 2005	ME590
Spatial patterns in state and trends of environmental quality in New Zealand rivers: an analysis for State of Environment reporting	February 2005	ME589
Levels of E. coli in New Zealand rivers	December 2004	-
Metadata reports on environmental databases, classification systems and spatial frameworks	various dates	TR99; TR98; TR89; TR88
Ecological Footprints of New Zealand and its Regions	September 2003	TR130
A Cultural Health Index for Streams and Waterways: Indicators for recognising and expressing Māori values	June 2003	ME475
National Soil Quality Review and Programme Design	January 2003	TR74
Environmental Metadata Framework	September 2002	TR73
Environmental performance indicators: A proposed land indicators framework for Environment Bay of Plenty	May 2002	TR27
Headline indicators for tracking progress to sustainability in New Zealand	March 2002	TR71
Survey of Regional Council River Water Quality Monitoring Programmes	November 2001	TR70
A summary of techniques for measuring soil erosion	November 2001	TR69
Background report for the Urban Amenity Project - Trials	June 2001	TR67
Background report for the Urban Amenity Project - Case Studies	June 2001	TR66
Confirmed indicators for the marine environment	June 2001	ME398
Soil Intactness/ Erosion Monitoring Techniques: A literature review	February 2001	TR62
Urban Amenity Trials Report	October 2000	TR65
Key Urban Amenity Approaches	September 2000	TR64
Confirmed indicators for solid waste, hazardous waste and contaminated sites	September 2000	ME344
Urban Amenity Indicators: The liveability of our urban environments	June 2000	TR63
A proposal for Land Cover Database 2	June 2000	TR61
Hauraki Customary Indicators Report	June 1999	TR57
Proposed Approach to Indicators for Urban Amenity	June 1999	TR54
Preliminary Assessment of Human Health Indicators of Air Quality	June 1999	AQTR55
Proposed indicators for erosion-prone hill country in New Zealand	March 1999	TR53
A Draft Environmental Thesaurus for New Zealand	March 1999	TR51
Environmental indicators for the physical climate system and climate change impacts	December 1998	TR49
Environmental Performance Indicators: An analysis of potential indicators for freshwater biodiversity	November 1998	TR48
Environmental Performance Indicators: An analysis of potential indicators for terrestrial biodiversity	November 1998	TR47
An analysis of potential indicators for marine biodiversity	November 1998	TR44
Environmental Performance Indicators: an analysis of potential indicators for fishing impacts	November 1998	TR43
Environmental Performance Indicators: Summary of Proposed Indicators for Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity	November 1998	ME299
Environmental Performance Indicators: Summary of Proposed Indicators for the Marine Environment	November 1998	ME296
Review of Environmental Performance Indicators for Toxic Contaminants in the environment - air, water and land	October 1998	TR37
Environmental Performance Indicators: Summary of Proposals for Waste, Hazardous Substances and Toxic Contaminants	October 1998	ME292
Environmental Performance Indicators: Marine environment potential indicators for physical and chemical processes, and human uses and values	September 1998	TR45
The Needs Analysis: Final Report	September 1998	TR32
Urban Amenity Indicators Workshop Report	July 1998	TR21
Trialing environmental performance indicators for arable soils on the Canterbury Plains	June 1998	TR29
A pilot survey linking stage 1 state and pressure indicators in Bay of Plenty	June 1998	TR28
Environmental Performance Indicators for Groundwater	May 1998	TR38
The pilot needs analysis	May 1998	TR25
Draft policy goals for coasts estuaries	January 1998	TR41
Potential coastal and estuarine indicators - a review of current research and data	November 1997	TR40
Monitoring and indicators of the coastal and estuarine environment - a literature review	June 1997	TR39
Land indicators for national environmental monitoring - Part 7: Summary Report	April 1997	TR12
Land indicators for national environmental monitoring - Part 6: Prioritisation of land monitoring parameters and indicators	April 1997	TR11
Land indicators for national environmental monitoring - Part 5: Land monitoring model	April 1997	TR10
Land indicators for national environmental monitoring - Part 4: Comparison of monitoring approaches	April 1997	TR9
Land Indicators for national environmental monitoring - Part 3: Evaluation of Taranaki, Otago and land report indicators against policy framework	April 1997	TR8
Land indicators for national environmental monitoring - Part 2: Proposed monitoring for sustainable land in Otago	April 1997	TR7
Land indicators for national environmental monitoring - Part 1A: New Zealand Land Resource Inventory	April 1997	TR6
Land indicators for national environmental monitoring - Part 1: Monitoring sustainable land use in the eastern Taranaki hill country	April 1997	TR5
Environmental indicators for the sustainable management of fresh water	January 1997	TR4
Land: Review of international literature, draft framework & indicators	November 1996	TR35
Draft core set of national air quality indicators: Report of focus workshop on development of environmental indicators for air	July 1996	TR1
NIWA: National ambient air quality monitoring network for New Zealand	June 1995	TR2

Consultation documents

The Ministry is not currently consulting on any state of the environment documents. Past documents used for discussion are available below.

Past consultation documents

Name	Date	Reference
Discussion document for the development of a National Groundwater Data Centre in New Zealand	October 2002	TR72
Environmental Performance Indicators: Proposals for Indicators of the Environmental Effects of Energy	June 2000	ME343
Proposals for indicators of the environmental effects of transport	June 1999	ME321; ME322
Māori Input into the Environmental Performance Indicators Programme	May 1999	ME312
Environmental Performance Indicators: Proposals for Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity	December 1998	ME302
Environmental Performance Indicators: Proposals for the Marine Environment	December 1998	ME301
Environmental Performance Indicators: Proposals for Waste and Hazardous Substances	October 1998	ME294
Environmental Performance Indicators: Proposals for Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Change Indicators	March 1998	ME267
Environmental Performance Indicators: Proposals for Air, Fresh Water and Land – Summary of Submissions	October 1997	ME268
Environmental Performance Indicators: Proposals for Air, Fresh Water and Land	October 1997	ME259
National Environmental Indicators: Building a Framework for a Core Set	January 1996	ME188