domestic appliances (gas stoves, gas or wood heaters) can also be significant
sources of nitrogen oxides, particularly in areas that are poorly ventilated. NO and NO2 are of
interest because of potential effects on human health.
Nitric oxide is colourless and odourless and is oxidised in the atmosphere to form nitrogen
dioxide. Nitrogen dioxide is an odorous, brown, acidic, highly corrosive gas that can affect our
health and environment. Nitrogen oxides are critical components of photochemical
over the lifetime of the
Strategy:
Pathway and exclusion programmes to prevent the
introduction of harmful plants and animals to the
region, and reduce the effects of existing pests.
Eradication programmes to target five harmful
species not yet established or widespread in
Taranaki.
Sustained control programmes to target 12 pests
that are having a regional effect on the
environment and agriculture, with rules (in the
Regional Pest Management Plan
the time of the 2015
survey, was not recorded to have extended beyond the mid-section in the 2018 survey. It had been
predicted that hornwort will eventually become dominant, out-competing E. densa and L. major. While this
is not expected to cause significant impacts on the ecology of Lake Rotorangi or on the hydro-electric
scheme, there is now greater potential for it to spread to nearby lakes, where such impacts could be much
more severe, e.g. Lake Rotokare. The next macrophyte survey of
persistent and
recognisable differences, particularly if
they are found in different locations, as
varieties, i.e. R. protistum var. giganteum,
or sub species, R. maddenii ssp. crassum.
In some cases extreme variants are
elevated to species level. Often further
research ‘sinks’ one species into another
e.g. R. cubittii is now included in
R.veitchianum. This naming of plants
often leads to conflicts among botanists.
Studying the genome, the DNA, provides
another tool to assist in determining …
instance terrace edges,
which are unstable and difficult to graze.
The Taranaki Regional Council advocates conversion of
steep erodible land to forestry, on faces where trees can
be safely grown and harvested, and scrub retention or
reversion to stabilise land too unstable for commercial
forestry. The Council recognises that wholesale forestry
conversion is neither necessary nor desired, and that
afforestation is more likely to take the form of farm
woodlot
instance terrace edges,
which are unstable and difficult to graze.
The Taranaki Regional Council advocates conversion of
steep erodible land to forestry, on faces where trees can
be safely grown and harvested, and scrub retention or
reversion to stabilise land too unstable for commercial
forestry. The Council recognises that wholesale forestry
conversion is neither necessary nor desired, and that
afforestation is more likely to take the form of farm
woodlot
transactions.
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Council
wants to achieve over the lifetime of the Strategy:
Pathway and exclusion programmes to prevent the
introduction of harmful plants and animals to the region,
and reduce the effects of existing pests.
Eradication programmes to target four harmful species
not yet established or widespread in Taranaki.
Sustained control programmes to target 14 pests that are
having a regional effect on the environment and
agriculture, with rules (in the Proposed Regional
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Waste minimisation
A key part of waste minimisation is reducing and reusing waste, finding ways to reduce the
waste created, or reusing materials that might otherwise be discarded. In an increasingly
throwaway society, it is important to focus on recycling, reusing and recovery as key
principles of minimising the amount of waste that ends up in landfill.
Regional waste management
In September 2008, the Waste Minimisation Act
intended for a variety of applications, and was used for the
1998 study. An updated version is still in use in Australia and New Zealand
today.
This is a steady-state Gaussian model, where the meteorological conditions at
the source are assumed to remain constant as the plume travels downwind.
While non-steady state models can give more accurate predicted concentrations
in complex terrain or at distances of more than a few kilometres downwind,
models such as AUSPLUME are considered to be