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Review of Environmental Classification Systems and Spatial Frameworks
Prepared for the Ministry of the Environment
By
Victoria Ann Froude
Pacific Eco-logic Resource Management Associates
and
Ruth Ann Beanland
Planning and Resource Management Consultant
September 1999, Ref. TR88
Environmental Performance Indicators Programme - Classification Systems, Databases and Spatial Frameworks
Purpose And Scope Of This Report
Spatial Frameworks
Classification Systems
Part One
1.0 Introduction
1.1 Environmental Performance Indicators Programme - Classification Systems, Databases and Spatial Frameworks
1.2 Purpose And Scope Of This Report
1.3 Methodology
2.0 Classification Systems and Spatial Frameworks
2.1 What is a Classification System?
2.2 What is a Spatial Framework?
2.3 Classification Systems, Spatial Frameworks and the EPI Programme
2.4 Administrative Boundaries
3.0 Where to from here? - Fit for Purpose
Part Two: Directory of Classification Systems and Spatial Frameworks
4.0 Spatial Frameworks
4.1 Land Environments of New Zealand (Environmental Domains)
4.2 Land Systems
4.3 Bio-climatic Zones (e.g. Meurk)
4.4 Ecological Regions and Districts
4.5 New Zealand 'Eco Regions' - Harding & Winterbourn
4.6 Environment Bay of Plenty Land Monitoring Framework
4.7 Environment Bay of Plenty Framework for Monitoring Ecological Integrity
4.8 Taranaki Regional Council Sustainable Land Use Classification
4.9 Wellington Regional Council Eco-systems Domains
4.10 Waitakere City Council Green Network
4.11 Auckland City Hauraki Gulf Islands Land Units
5.0 Classification Systems
5.1 NIWA River Environment Classification
5.2 Ramsar Wetland Classification System
5.3 Environmental Council/Thompson Wetland Types
5.4 UNEP GRID New Zealand Wetland Classification
5.5 Freshwater Ecosystem Classification - Kevin Collier
5.6 Ecological Classification for the PNA Programme
5.7 Landform Classification for PNA Programme
5.8 Atkinson Vegetation Classification
5.9 Indigenous Forest Classification
5.10 Newsome's Vegetation Cover Classes: Classification System Used in the Vegetation Cover Map of New Zealand
5.11 Terrestrial Ecosystem Classification by Meurk & Shaw
5.12 IUCN Criteria for Threatened Species Categories
5.13 Molloy & Davis Priorities for Threatened Species Conservation Work
5.14 De Lange & Norton Classification of Uncommon Plants
5.15 New Zealand Genetic Soil Classification
5.16 New Zealand Soil Classification - Hewitt
5.17 New Zealand Land Resource Inventory Classification Including Land Use Capability Units