Investigating the regional variation in rules and best management practices for forestry in New Zealand

Under the Resource Management Act 1991 (NZ), the interpretation and implementation of environmental policy is primarily the responsibility of local government. The management of forestry operations may be influenced by statutory rules published in regional and district plans, and recommended best management practices (BMPs) published in guidelines. There are concerns that inconsistency between jurisdictions’ rules have a negative impact on the forestry industry’s financial and environmental outcomes. This research investigated and quantified the variation in Permitted Activity rules and BMPs, for culvert installation and earthworks, between New Zealand’s 16 Regional Councils. Significant variation in these regional rules and BMPs existed in both the level of control (i.e., the number of rules and BMPs per council), and the nature of control (i.e., the proportion of rules or BMPs utilised). Further, the rules and BMPs of one council are seldom the same as another. This variation is apparent on both a national scale and when considering only neighbouring pairs of councils

Assessment of New Zealand's forest codes of practice for erosion and sediment control

New Zealand's forest industry has several codes of practice available for erosion and sediment control. This article reviews conditions required for a code of practice to succeed in protecting the environment. Internal conditions – those conditions which are written into a code and can be assessed by reading the document alone – were used to assess the strengths and weaknesses of six of New Zealand's forest codes of practice. The study found that overall, the codes scored highly for objectives, communication, planning and comprehensiveness. However they did not score well for regulatory approach, monitoring, foundations and review process. Some preliminary recommendations were made about the development of future codes of practice based on these results

Measurement of Activity of Peroxidase Isoenzymes in Flax (\u3cem\u3eLinum usitatissimum\u3c/em\u3e)

Peroxidase isoenzynles may be separated on acrylamide gels and then detected by supplying the substrate in an appropriate reaction system. One such system frequently used contains guaiacol as the hydrogen donor, although this compound has certain drawbacks. Ways of circumventing these drawbacks are suggested, so that quantitative estimates of the activity of individual peroxidase isoenzymes may be obtained

T’s World: The Over-identification of Terry Thompson

T's World: The Overidentification of Terry Thompson is an experimental documentary that unpacks events surrounding the 2011 animal release and subsequent suicide of Terry Thompson in Zanesville Ohio, USA. Over the course of 15 years Terry Thompson collected tigers, lions, bears, wolves, and other dangerous animals accumulating a menagerie of 60 or so creatures on his private ranch. The menagerie was not open to the public and was not visible from the road, therefore according to the laws at that time in Ohio, the law enforcement authorities had no right to inspect or otherwise cast an eye upon Mr.Thompson's private collection. Over the course of several years an adversarial relationship developed between Thompson and the local Police culminating in Thompson's arrest and imprisonment for one year and a day on weapons charges. When he returned from prison Terry Thompson found his animals in disarray and his personal life broken. On the evening of October 11 2011,Terry Thompson cut open the cages of his animals and made holes in the fences surrounding his 90 acre property. He laced his body with chicken parts and shot himself in the head. The sheriff was alerted to the animal release by a woman who had seen a lion bounding near the highway. With two hours until nightfall, and without any means to control the animals the sheriff ordered his deputies to kill all of the animals. The subsequent hunt lasted for 24 hours

Glacis

The film explores the remnants of the French bourgeoisie, a world slowly but inexorably undermined by the forces of acceleration and globalised finance capitalism. dividing the sequences are still frames taken from the history of French aviation, the developments of which were a particularly bourgeois pastime of the 18th and 19th centuries enabled by family industrial infrastructure. The notions of speed and acceleration associated both with flight and post industrial capital are contrasted to slowness and investment associated with bourgeois values and the old industrial elites. Self professed Bourgeois are filmed in their family (secondary) homes performing role playing games that they themselves have chosen. These sequences are followed by "cinematic" sequences designed by the performers and produced by the film maker. The French aviation threads that bookend the chapters are accompanied by a narrated voice and composed of a single frame image. That image degrades over time. The degradation of the image is a result of algorithmic scripting that obliterates the traditional notion of decay by performing in fast forward, 1,000 years of the opening and closing of a jpeg image until the image itself is degraded to the point of being unrecognisable. This process formally performs the undermining - by technologies - of the temporal weapon of tradition and manners mobilised in the project of bourgeois hegemony. Glacis is an ancient military term that denotes a field of view unimpeded by obstacles where the enemy other is clearly visible, figured against the nothingness