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.
 
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Purpose
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 
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  • Inland waters

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  • rivers classification resource management water resources
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  • Enterprise

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English  

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