New Zealand Land Types

The NZ Coastal Policy Statement 2010 recently adopted by government recognises that an understanding of underlying land types, and the natural processes that influence them, is a very useful basis for resource planning. Land typing is recommended as a basis for addressing coastal management.

Using land types, or land systems,  that address the underlying geomorphological character is a useful method for all scales of landscape planning, management and design, for the coast and for inland. From Lucas Associates numerous examples of application from inland and coasts, excerpts from around the coasts of NZ that underpinned the NZCPS recognition are accessible at the link below.