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Regional councils have these specific functions under the Resource Management Act 1991: Planning for the integrated management of natural and physical resources [11] Planning for regionally significant land uses [12] Soil conservation, water quality and quantity, water ecosystems, natural hazards, hazardous substances [13]
The main geological hazard in Northland is the potential for landslides, particularly in mudstones and sandstones of the Northland Allochthon. Northland has the least incidence of earthquakes of anywhere in New Zealand. Volcanic activity is dormant rather than extinct. [13]
The EuDASM is a common platform established by Joint Research Centre in Italy of the European Commission and the International Soil Reference and Information Centre(ISRIC) of Wageningen University in The Netherlands to store soil and related maps in digital format and to provide free access to the global community (Researchers, University ...
The National Cooperative Soil Survey Program (NCSS) in the United States is a nationwide partnership of federal, regional, state, and local agencies and institutions. This partnership works together to cooperatively investigate, inventory, document, classify, and interpret soils and to disseminate, publish, and promote the use of information about the soils of the United States and its trust ...
SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic database) refers to digital soils data produced and distributed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) - National Cartography and Geospatial Center (NCGC) in the United States. The database has information on soil types and their distribution. The information covers soil characteristics, soil ...
The Northland region (Māori: Te Tai Tokerau), officially the Northland Region, [4] [5] is the northernmost of New Zealand's 16 local government regions. New Zealanders sometimes refer to it as the Winterless North because of its mild climate all throughout the year.
Much of the land of Northland and East Cape were created in this manner. [14] Around 25–22 Ma, Northland and East Cape were adjacent, with East Cape near Whangārei. Northland–East Cape was an undersea basin. Much of the land that now forms Northland–East Cape was higher land to the northeast (composed of rocks formed 90–25 Ma).