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The internet is an important and necessary tool in many aspects of everyday life – at the workplace, in education and training, and in social and civic life. Understanding Aucklanders’ current internet access, usage patterns and attitudes toward the internet assists the council, its partners, including council-controlled organisations (CCOs), central government agencies and stakeholders in the private sector, to develop policies and programmes bringing positive change in internet use in Auckland. *The World Internet Project Survey* The World Internet Project is a survey on internet use and digital adoption that has been conducted every two years since 2000.

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New Zealand is a spatially unique landscape where urban and environmental amenities shape the urban configuration of each city and determine land-use regulations. Hedonic pricing models supply information to make appropriate decisions regarding the provision of those amenities and to design more effective zoning and land-use regulations. Those models contribute to informing planners on how individuals value amenities and developers on how to design development projects that preserve profit-maximization behaviour (Heal, 2001; Anderson and West, 2006).

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Māori, like many indigenous communities world-wide, hold distinct perspectives on freshwater that concern their identity, knowledge, attachment to place through ancestral connections (whakapapa), and custodial obligations such as kaitiakitanga and whakapapa. Many wetlands also have traditional, historical and contemporary cultural significance (e. g.

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Executive summary Emissions from human activities released into the atmosphere act to change its composition. This can be observed globally through climate change, and locally with degraded air quality. Although often considered separately, climate change and air quality have many common attributes that together, deliver complex environmental challenges.

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Executive summary Vulnerability to climate change entails the degree to which geophysical, biological, and socio-economic systems are susceptible to, and unable to cope with, adverse impacts of climate change (Houghton, 1996). Vulnerability assessments to climate change have become grounds for environmental and climate change policy as they inform the allocation of priorities for funding and intervention; facilitate comparisons between geographic units; assist the development of adaptation options (Brenkert and Malone, 2005; Füssel and Klein, 2006; Ibarrarán, Malone and Brenkert, 2009); and promote a culture of resilience. This report carries out a vulnerability assessment taking Auckland as a case study.

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The Salvation Army’s State of the Nation reports have been published since 2008. At the time of the report’s conception, the project was seen as a way of tracking our social progress as a nation. In undertaking this work, The Salvation Army was attempting to introduce and highlight important social values—such as equity and inclusion—into the public discourse.

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Air emissions inventories are a critical component of managing air quality and need to be updated regularly to gauge how emissions are tracking in the region. There were many changes in the transport sector over the last decade in the Auckland region, and while these changes have seen positive results, they are being offset by the rate of growth in the region. Future growth will add more pressure and demand on existing infrastructure, resources, goods and services.

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Press release: Aucklanders are one step closer to getting rapid transit to the airport, Transport Minister Phil Twyford and Auckland Mayor Phil Goff have announced. (18 May 2019) Auckland Transport has awarded the contract for the upgrade of the Puhinui Rail Station Interchange to the McConnell Dowell-Built Environs Joint Venture.

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An online overview of the Auckland economy with graphs, charts and data tables. Local board profiles are also available. The website includes information about businesses, employment, population, productivity, skills, standard of living and tourism.

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Greenfield development that works for Auckland Auckland has a housing shortfall. Despite huge upzoning in existing urban (brownfield) areas through the Unitary Plan, pressure to develop previously undeveloped (greenfield) land is strong. But there are huge infrastructure costs in opening up greenfield land, as well as several other external costs.

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Auckland Economic Commentary David Norman,  Chief Economist Housing is the most affordable it has been in five years with flat prices, rising incomes and falling interest rates. No capital gains tax will provide a floor under prices falling further. Construction’s growth continues unabated, and remains the main driver of Auckland’s economy.