A number of case studies have been undertaken in *WISE* to support policy and planning. The following are examples of using *WISE *to explore plausible future outcomes...
This example applies WISE to explore urban sprawl scenarios for the Future Proof project centred on Hamilton and surrounding districts. Predicted population growth and planned infrastructure (e.g. Waikato...
This case study depicts three alternative scenarios for future land use change in the Waikato region (to 2050): Dairy expansion: 4 per cent per annum increase...
The terrestrial biodiversity model in WISE assesses representativeness of native ecosystems. It uses information on land environments (a surrogate for ecosystems), legally protected areas and native land cover...
The Waikato Regional Council is developing a regional carbon strategy[http://www.waikatoregion.govt.nz/carbonstrategy] that could improve the economic returns from marginal land by planting trees to benefit from the NZ Emission Trading System (ETS)...
The available resources from WISE and from the Creating Futures research project are provided under three sections: User Training[/resources/user-training/#Reference Scenario] Publications[sitetree_link id=70] Presentations[sitetree_link id=71] A list of...
Available Publications are presented for the three tools, plus some general project resources: WISE[#WISE] Scenarios[#Scenario] Deliberation Matrix[#Deliberation] Creating Futures Project[#Creating] WISE Publications WISE Training Manual - Workshop 1...
Available Presentations for Creating Futures project and the three tools developed: WISE[#WISE] Waikato Scenarios[#Scenarios] Deliberation Matrix[#Deliberation] Creating Future Project[#CF PPTs] WISE User Group[#WISE] WISE Presentations Overview of WISE -...
*The WISE Version 1.5 has been released and can be downloaded from here. **When you have downloaded the software you can then access the Data Files from...
July 2019 *Analysis Undertaken:* The Waikato Means Business (Economic Development Strategy) has four main growth goals: (i) grow value added by 2.8% per annum; (ii) grow value added...