Key documents

The handbook introduces the reader to the contemporary methods and standards of the LUC system.

Legacy version, produced for the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Council.

The techniques and tools described in this introductory guide provide a straight forward approach to farm soil mapping.

This handbook describes a system of land classification developed for Urban Land Use Capability (ULUC) surveys.

Correlation of North Island regional LUC units from the NZLRI.

This document presents principles of land evaluation and describes the land characteristics - together with methods of their measurement or estimation - from which classifications are to be derived.

Report to assist field staff to make consistent LUC assessments, and to help resource managers better understand the role and limitations of LUC for planning sustainable land use.

A handbook to accompany and explain the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI) worksheets.

New Zealand's resource management system is designed to support development within environmental limits and is required to give effect to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.