5 NOVEMBER

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

3739

• Development, adaptation and exploitation of information and communication technologies to enhance New Zealand’s economic efficiency and social services.

Output Class 24: Urban and Rural Planning

• Integrated planning and resource management systems to ensure sustainable social, economic and environmental development of human settlements, including processes appropriate for public participation.

Output Class 25: History, Society and Culture

• Human settlement in New Zealand; its history, origins, relationships, distinctive features and interaction with the natural environment, economic development and social change.
• Description and analysis of the origins and relationships of Maori society and culture.

Output Class 26: Relationships and Wellbeing

• Description and analysis of current family patterns, the formation, dissolution and reconstituting of families in New Zealand, and the impact on child growth and development, aspirations and motivation, and family violence.
• Systematic knowledge of relationships within work groups, and the changing patterns of ethnic and cultural relations, particularly between Maori and Europeans.

Output Class 27: Political and Economic Relationships

• Description and analysis of factors which limit or enhance participation in local, regional or national democratic processes, particularly by different ethnic, income and gender groups.
• Political and economic research directed at attaining sustainable management.

Output Class 28: Education, Knowledge and Training

• Development of New Zealand’s human resources including skills formation and education delivery; process description, analysis, model development and use of technologies.
• Analysis of social, cultural and economic factors affecting educational participation, learning, occupation and career performance.

Output Class 29: Environmental Protection

• Development of processes, systems and generic technologies for sustainable management of New Zealand ecosystems subject to artificial modification and pollution; incorporating economic (monetary and non-monetary) and social values.

Output Class 30: Geological Structures, Processes and Resources

• Description and analysis of the structure and development of the New Zealand lithosphere and studies of crustal change, earth deformation, earthquakes and volcanism as manifestations of the plate boundary through New Zealand; emphasising the understanding of underlying processes and mechanisms.
• Description and analysis of the origins and evolutionary development of New Zealand’s fossil flora and fauna emphasising their usefulness in determining age, environment and correlation of geological strata, and the timing of geological events.

Output Class 31: Land Use, Flora and Fauna

• Description and analysis of the biosystematics, adaptive ecology and genetics of indigenous and introduced flora and fauna and their impact on biota, land and water ecosystems.

Output Class 32: Marine and Fresh Waters

• Description and analysis of the hydrology and hydraulics of gravel bed, braided river systems; including research predicting flood risk and mitigating flood damage.
• Integrated, multidisciplinary studies of key biological and physical processes within the water environments of the New Zealand region, including interactions with atmosphere and land energy flows between key biota, and relationships between primary productivity and new and recycled inorganic nutrients.

Output Class 33: Climate and Atmosphere

• Description and analysis of stratospheric ozone and of other gases aimed at understanding the chemistry determining ozone concentrations in the atmosphere; ultraviolet measurement and analysis including detailed spectral measurements.
• Description and analysis of sources, sinks, chemistry, physics and radiative effects of tropospheric gases, aerosols and clouds which contribute to radiative forcing of the atmosphere.
• Description and analysis of climate and weather dynamics and past climates, and development and validation of climate and weather modelling techniques, aimed at describing and understanding past and present New Zealand and South Pacific climate and weather, and predicting future variations in atmospheric circulation.

Output Class 35: Antarctica

• Description and analysis of the physical properties, dynamics and chemical constituents of the Antarctic atmosphere, sea ice and ocean.
• Description and analysis of the Antarctic weather, climate and climate change in the recent and geological past.
• Description and analysis of the biota and functioning of the ecosystems of the Antarctic.

Annex G: Structural Priorities

1. Long Term Programme Funding

   The foundation should continue to develop and apply a long-term (multi-year) funding approach which provides a consistent release of funding for reallocation each year that allows priority shifts to be achieved, but also enables funding stability to be given to long term and high priority programmes of research.