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Proposed National Environmental Standard on Ecological Flows and Water Levels: Discussion Document

Acknowledgements

Executive Summary

1 Introduction

2 Ecological Flows and Water Levels in the Context of Environmental Flows and the Resource Management Act

3 How Could National Direction Address Issues with Ecological Flows and Water Levels?

4 The Options

5 Proposal for an NES on Ecological Flows and Water Levels

6 Preliminary Evaluation of Costs and Benefits of Preferred Option

7 Future Actions to Complement the NES

8 What Next?

9 References

Appendix 1: Definitions

Appendix 2: Existing Approaches to Ecological Flows

Appendix 3: Environmental Flows and Water Levels

Appendix 4: Executive Summary and Recommendations from: Draft Guidelines for the Selection of Methods to Determine Ecological Flows and Water Levels (Beca 2008)

 

 

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