0c56fca2-b711-73c2-9b78-93bb8399e24f urn:uuid NIWA National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research curator@niwa.co.nz http://www.niwa.co.nz WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Website of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand - experts in environmental science Data curator 2020-12-03T12:05:59 2014-04-09T15:38:25 creation ISO 19115-3 https://dc.niwa.co.nz:/niwa_dc/srv/eng//metadata/0c56fca2-b711-73c2-9b78-93bb8399e24f River Environment Classification The REC has been used to classify all the rivers of New Zealand at a 1:50,000 mapping scale. The area classified comprises 267,000 km2 and 426,000 km of river network. The REC is an ecosystem-based spatial framework for river management purposes and provides a context for inventories of river resources, and a spatial framework for effects assessment, policy development, developing monitoring programmes and interpretation of monitoring data and state-of-environment reporting NIWA ++64 3 348 8987 ++64 3 348 5548 10 Kyle Street, Riccarton Christchurch 8011 New Zealand t.snelder@niwa.co.nz Ton Snelder Principal Scientist inlandWaters NZ 166.10 178.84 -46.70 -34.20 rivers classification resource management water resources Enterprise https://dc.niwa.co.nz/niwa_dc/srv/metadata/0c56fca2-b711-73c2-9b78-93bb8399e24f WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL Point of truth URL of this metadata record http://www.niwa.co.nz/our-science/freshwater/tools/rec WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Link to NIWA's River Environment Classification