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Taking stock: appreciating untapped regional resources
Key points
- Information is the key to accessing natural resources.
- Information on the risks and opportunities of land use in certain regions is particularly important.
- Information such as: the frequency and force of wind; rainfall; soil composition; and how each of these changes over time.
- Help identifying regional opportunities is available through organisations such as NIWA, Crown Research Institutes, and government programmes like the Regional Partnerships Programme.
- Such information is vital is we are to take land use away from traditional, safe uses, like forestry, into more productive uses.
- Even when information is available, and there is plenty of opportunity through the development of under-utilised and currently unproductive land, progress can be impeded by the problem of multiply-owned land.
- Increasing community involvement and enhancing leadership on land management projects may help address this.
- Other opportunities identified included Maori. Where the traditional view was of complying with Maori, now regions and business see Maori as an opportunity through expertise and untapped land resources.
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