SEV applicability to Waikato Regional Council Freshwater Ecosystem Services project

TR 2020/14
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Report: TR 2020/14

Author: Rebecca Eivers and Ngaire Phillips (Streamlined Environmental Limited)

About this report

Streamlined Environmental Ltd (SEL) investigated the applicability of the Stream Ecological Valuation (SEV) methodology as a semi-quantitative framework from which to derive functional scores of Freshwater Ecosystem Services (FWES) using the Waikato Regional Council’s (WRC) State of the Environment (SOE) monitoring data.

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Contents
Executive Summary
1 Introduction
2 Methods
2.1 Review existing WRC data & Gap Analysis
2.1.1 Calculating Current State & Potential Proxy SEV scores
2.2 Functional scores aligned to Freshwater Ecosystem Services (FWES)
2.3 Scalability
3 Results & Discussion
3.1 Existing WRC SOE REMS data & Gap Analysis
3.2 Proxy SEV Scores
3.3 Functional scores aligned to Freshwater Ecosystem Services (FWES)
3.4 Link to scalability
4 Conclusions
5 References
6 Appendix A
6.1 Step-by-step instructions for calculating Proxy SEV scores using WRC SOE REMS data 32