The Challenge’s research is structured into three impact areas. Whakamana – Empower seeks to help New Zealanders protect our precious environment; Tiaki – Protect contributes to a world-class biosecurity system; and Whakahou – Restore works to provide avenues for creating a resilient, thriving environment. Spanning the impact areas is the Pou – Supporting Architecture, housing work that guides and reflects on how the Challenge has gone about conducting research – the insight from our Pou help support and strengthen our research.
Each of these areas shared some of their results at the Crazy & Ambitious 4 conference, both as presentations and in the form of two-page research briefs. If you’d like a high-level overview of research areas/projects or would like to concisely share Challenge outputs with a policy-maker or decision-maker in your life, here’s a list of the available briefs. Links labelled “webpage” will direct you to the dedicated webpage on the Challenge’s Data Repository, which will have resources additional to and inclusive of the briefs list. The bullet points that follow are direct links to the PDF of each research brief. Enjoy!
Whakamana – Empower
Eco-index – webpage
Empowering Kaitiakitanga and Environmental Stewardship – webpage
- What Do We Need to Do to Protect and Restore Urban Freshwater Systems? – PDF
- Motivating Urban Residents to Volunteer for Waterway Restoration – PDF
- Encouraging Citizen Reporting of Pollution in Urban Waterways – PDF
- Encouraging the Installation of Rainwater Tanks in Urban Areas – PDF
Tiaki – Protect
He Tangata, He Taiao, He Ōhanga – webpage
- What characterises a good biosecurity decision? – Best practice from stakeholder and expert interviews – PDF
- Social discounting – Giving a voice to future generations and environments – PDF
- The value of good decisions – Smart biosecurity actions can confer benefits for centuries – PDF
- What really matters? – Characterising values relevant to biosecurity and biodiversity – PDF
State of the art surveillance – webpage
Molecular Technologies – webpage
- Genetic technologies and our environment – a public deliberation – PDF
- Safe, effective, and highly targeted tools for pest control – PDF
- Te Tiriti-guided national DNA reference Library – PDF
Invertebrates – webpage
- Evaluating the use of gene drives for wasp control – PDF
- Māori perspectives on potential new pest control – PDF
Supporting a Predator Free 2050 – webpage
- TrapSim Plus – Supporting informed decision-making in community predator control planning – PDF
- Predators Beware – Swarms of intelligent drones are coming – PDF
Non-native invasive plants as a threat – webpage
Whakahou – Restore
Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration – webpage
- Unlocking collective wisdom – Shared learning with Te Taiao Collectives Network – PDF
- Growing community capacity and capability for large-scale restoration in Te Tai Tokerau – PDF
- Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration – PDF
- The value and power of collective approaches to ecosystem restoration – PDF
Farming & Nature Conservation – webpage
Freshwater for our Taonga – webpage
- Accelerating Te Tiriti o Waitangi-led research for the protection, restoration and enhancement of freshwater taonga species – PDF
- Why is it so hard to move freshwater species? – Rethinking freshwater translocation processes and policy in Aotearoa New Zealand – PDF
Adaptive Governance and Policy – webpage
Living Labs – webpage
Pou – Supporting Architecture
New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Data Repository – webpage
- Co-designing a research programme for impact – PDF
- Learning from a National Science Challenge – doing science differently – PDF
Challenge Research Essentials – webpage