scholarly journals The economic benefits of schooling in New Zealand: Comment and update

1998 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Winkelmann
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Economic Benefits

scholarly journals Value in the mash: exploring the benefits, barriers and enablers of open data apps

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Cranefield ◽  
O Robertson ◽  
G Oliver
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Barriers And Enablers ◽  
Open Government Data ◽  
Government Data

The open government paradigm relies on the provision and reuse of open government data (OGD) to improve transparency and create new sources of value. This study aims to progress understanding of OGD beyond a theoretical commentary by exploring the perceived sources of value of mashups (online services that combine diverse OGD), and to examine issues that impact on, and facilitate, the delivery of this value from an 'insider' perspective. Based on open-ended interviews with 17 individuals actively involved in OGD application design, use, and advocacy in New Zealand (ranked fourth in the 2013 Global Open Data Barometer) nine key sources of value were identified: Ease of discovery, improved data quality, bringing knowledge into relevant contexts, economic benefits, social benefits, cost reduction and efficiencies, predictive value, transparency, and ability to explore and play. Twelve barriers to delivering this value were found, ranging from change-related issues to problems relating to sustainability. Six facilitators were identified as helping to overcome these barriers and realise the value of OGD.

First New Zealand record of the genus Macrolophus Fieber, 1858 (Hemiptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae: Dicyphini): Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur, 1839), a beneficial predacious insect

Zootaxa ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 1779 (1) ◽  
pp. 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. EYLES ◽  
T. MARAIS ◽  
S. GEORGE
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Vegetable Crops ◽  
Macrolophus Pygmaeus ◽  
First Time

Macrolophus pygmaeus (Rambur, 1839) is recorded for the first time in New Zealand. Viable adult M. pygmaeus were collected in the field in Auckland, in 2007, indicating that the species had already established itself in this country. The biology of M. pygmaeus is briefly discussed in the light of its potential economic benefits to growers of vegetable crops affected by whitefly (Aleyrodidae). The adults and nymphs are described and illustrated. An updated key to the genera and species of Bryocorinae in New Zealand is provided.

scholarly journals Value in the mash: exploring the benefits, barriers and enablers of open data apps

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Cranefield ◽  
O Robertson ◽  
G Oliver
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Predictive Value ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Barriers And Enablers ◽  
Open Government Data ◽  
Government Data

The open government paradigm relies on the provision and reuse of open government data (OGD) to improve transparency and create new sources of value. This study aims to progress understanding of OGD beyond a theoretical commentary by exploring the perceived sources of value of mashups (online services that combine diverse OGD), and to examine issues that impact on, and facilitate, the delivery of this value from an 'insider' perspective. Based on open-ended interviews with 17 individuals actively involved in OGD application design, use, and advocacy in New Zealand (ranked fourth in the 2013 Global Open Data Barometer) nine key sources of value were identified: Ease of discovery, improved data quality, bringing knowledge into relevant contexts, economic benefits, social benefits, cost reduction and efficiencies, predictive value, transparency, and ability to explore and play. Twelve barriers to delivering this value were found, ranging from change-related issues to problems relating to sustainability. Six facilitators were identified as helping to overcome these barriers and realise the value of OGD.

Truffle Wars

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
gareth renowden
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Southern China ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Black Truffle ◽  
World Markets ◽  
Steep Decline ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
European Production

Chinese truffles, close relatives of the French black truffle, arrived on world markets in the middle of the 1990s. Available in quantity at low prices, they were eagerly snapped up by traders facing a steep decline in European production. Despite having less intense flavour, they have captured a large part of world trade in truffles, and their harvest has brought significant economic benefits to rural communities in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of southern China. In parallel, the development of artificial truffle flavouring has led to an explosion in ersatz ““truffle”” products, and the practice in many restaurants of boosting the flavour of inferior truffles with artificial truffle oils. However, recent expansion of truffle growing in North America and the arrival of southern hemisphere producers from New Zealand and Australia is extending both the quantity of truffle available and the season.

scholarly journals The impact of shelterbelts in North Island East Coast dryland regions

1999 ◽  
pp. 189-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.F. Hawke ◽  
A.G. Gillingham ◽  
M. Gray ◽  
M. Dean
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
East Coast ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Pasture Production ◽  
Competitive Effects ◽  
The North ◽  
Pasture Soil ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Impact

Shelterbelts are a feature of the New Zealand landscape and in the dryland East Coast regions of the North Island, are seen in a diversity of planting patterns, species and silvicultural practices. To date, their economic benefits have not been assessed, partly because of the difficulty in evaluating the many interrelated pasture, soil, animal and forestry factors. Recent shelterbelt research in New Zealand has been conducted as a collaborative approach by AgResearch, Forest Research and Hort Research. Results of pasture, soil and tree measurements in the East Coast region indicate that shelterbelts, however managed, do not significantly increase pasture production in the sheltered zone. The competitive effects of trees reduce soil moisture in zones close to the shelter, which also encourages the accumulation of dung and urine nutrients in this zone by animals seeking protection. The modification in resting patterns as a result of shelter may be reflected in improved animal welfare and production but this was not measured. The value of timber from shelterbelts on the East Coast indicates that they have a role in diversifying farming income and offering a modified land use, which will help to sustain productive farming practices. Keywords: livestock, log value, pasture production, Pinus radiata, shelter, shelterbelts, soil moisture, soil nutrients, wood yields

scholarly journals The contribution of dietitians to the primary health care workforce

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Howatson ◽  
Clare Wall ◽  
Petrina Turner-Benny
Keyword(s):  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Preventive Health Care ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Dietetic Intervention

INTRODUCTION: Dietetic intervention is effective in the management of nutrition-related conditions and their comorbidities. New Zealand has an increasing need for primary and preventive health care to reduce the burden of non-communicable disease. AIM: To review the recent evidence of effectiveness of dietetic intervention in primary health care on health and wider economic outcomes. Health benefits and cost benefits of employing dietitians to perform nutrition intervention in the primary health care setting are evaluated in the areas of obesity in conjunction with diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and malnutrition in older adults. METHODS: An electronic literature search of four scientific databases, websites of major dietetic associations and high-impact nutrition and dietetic journals was conducted. Randomised controlled trials and non-randomised studies conducted from 2000 to 2014 were included. RESULTS: Dietetic intervention demonstrates statistically and clinically significant impacts on health outcomes in the areas of obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and malnutrition in older adults, when compared to usual care. Dietitians working in primary health care can also have significant economic benefits, potentially saving the health care system NZ$5.50–$99 for every NZ$1 spent on dietetic intervention. DISCUSSION: New Zealand must look to new models of health care provision that are not only patient-centred but are also cost-effective. This review demonstrates that dietitians in primary health care can improve patients? health and quality of life. Increasing the number of dietitians working in primary health care has the potential to make quality nutrition care accessible and affordable for more New Zealanders. KEYWORDS: Allied health; chronic disease; diabetes mellitus; dietetics; dietitian; primary health care

The economic value to dairy systems of genetic gains in the nutritive value of perennial ryegrass in grass–clover pastures

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (7) ◽  
pp. 1357 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Wims ◽  
C. I. Ludemann ◽  
H. Phillips ◽  
D. F. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Functional Groups ◽  
Perennial Ryegrass ◽  
Nutritive Value ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Botanical Composition ◽  
Dairy Farmers ◽  
Flowering Behaviour ◽  
Metabolisable Energy

Perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.) breeding efforts have focussed on improving pasture nutritive value by altering flowering behaviour and increasing ploidy. However, the gains in farm profitability that this has delivered are not known. The flowering behaviour, botanical composition and nutritive value of pastures based on 24 perennial ryegrass cultivar–endophyte combinations released in New Zealand since 1970 were compared under grazing for 3 years in the Waikato region of New Zealand. Cultivars were grouped into the following three functional groups for data analysis: mid-season-heading diploids, late- and very late-heading diploids, and late- and very late-heading tetraploids. The first of these groups included older, ‘standard’ cultivars, while the latter two groups were dominated by cultivars released since 2002. The appearance of reproductive tillers in grazed pastures was delayed by 4–8 weeks for the late- and very late-heading cultivars, resulting in pastures that maintained a greater proportion of green leaf and had a greater metabolisable energy (ME) concentration during spring. Tetraploid pastures had a greater ME concentration than did diploid pastures, largely due to the greater ME concentration of the perennial ryegrass component of these pastures. The gains in pasture nutritive value achieved by broadening the range of perennial ryegrass functional types have the potential to deliver economic benefits in the range of NZ$54/ha.year (late-heading diploids compared with mid-heading diploids) to NZ$232/ha.year (tetraploids compared with mid-heading diploids) to New Zealand dairy farmers. Potential economic gains can be diminished by changes in pasture botanical composition both over time and between functional groups.

Does Event-Driven Tourism Provide Economic Benefits? A Case Study from the Manawatu Region of New Zealand

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Auld ◽  
Sarah McArthur
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Event Driven ◽  
Net Benefits ◽  
Tourism Organization

The prime purpose of the New Zealand tourism industry is to create income. Events are becoming a major component of the tourism product. This study analyses the economic impact of an events festival in the Manawatu region of New Zealand. Destination Manawatu, the region's tourism organization, wanted to know whether an events festival held in March 1999 had provided net benefits for the region. Analysis indicates that the festival did produce significant economic benefits for the Manawatu, suggesting that event-driven tourism is an effective strategy for Destination Manawatu.

A Comparative Analysis of Nineteenth-Century Californian and New Zealand Newspaper Representations of Chinese Gold Miners

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 248-273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grant Hannis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Survey Period ◽  
Alta California ◽  
Chinese Rhetoric ◽  
Gold Miners ◽  
Over Time

AbstractDuring the nineteenth-century gold rush era, Chinese gold miners arrived spontaneously in California and, later, were invited in to work the Otago goldfields in New Zealand. This article considers how the initial arrival of Chinese in those areas was represented in two major newspapers of the time, the Daily Alta California and the Otago Witness. Both newspapers initially favored Chinese immigration, due to the economic benefits that accrued and the generally tolerant outlook of the newspapers' editors. The structure of the papers' coverage differed, however, reflecting the differing historical circumstances of California and Otago. Both papers gave little space to reporting Chinese in their own voices. The newspapers editors played the crucial role in shaping each newspaper's coverage over time. The editor of the Witness remained at the helm of his newspaper throughout the survey period and his newspaper consequently did not waver in its support of the Chinese. The editor of the Alta, by contrast, died toward the end of the survey period and his newspaper subsequently descended into racist, anti-Chinese rhetoric.

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