Appendix 3: Discussion Frameworks
Other stakeholder interview framework
Do you think farmers are aware of their NPS impacts?
What rights do farmers have to make NPS discharges?
What rights should they have?
What rights do they have to change their system? What rights should they have to change their system?
What rights do you have in the system?
Scenarios for focus group discussion regarding impacts on behaviour and management
Version 1 (Matamata and Edgecumbe)
Scenario I
(a) You are given a consent which allows you to continue your current operation, but you are not able to make it more intensive. The permit lasts forever.
How would this affect your management and investment programme?
(b) As above, but the permit lasts only 10 years, with the possibility that from then you have to move to a less intensive land use.
How would this affect your management and investment programme?
Scenario II
(a) You are given a consent to discharge nitrates at your current level but with no limitation on land use. The permit lasts forever.
How would this affect your management and investment programme?
(b) As above, but the permit lasts only 10 years, with the possibility that from then on discharges will have to decrease.
How would this affect your management and investment programme?
Version 2 (Canterbury)
- Do you think there would be advantages or disadvantages to having your rights to non-point source discharges formalised - say as a consent? How would it affect your investment and management?
- If non-point source rights were made into a consent, what differences would there be between a consent for land use and a consent for discharges? What differences would they make to your management and investment programme?
