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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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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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An overview of the Auckland economy for April 2019, in charts and graphs and with some commentary. Previous updates.

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An overview of the Auckland economy for February 2019, in charts and graphs and with some commentary. Previous updates.

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An overview of the Auckland economy for January 2019, in charts and graphs and with some commentary. Previous updates.

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An overview of the Auckland economy for March 2019, in charts and graphs and with some commentary. Previous updates.

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A summary of statistics for housing in Auckland including: the number of dwellings consented the types of dwellings code compliance certificates issued etc April highlights: 1354 dwellings were consented in February 2019. In the year ending February 2019, 13,847 dwellings were consented in the region. 47 per cent of new dwellings consented in February 2019 were houses, 31 per cent were apartments and 22 per cent were townhouses, flats, units, retirement units, or other types of attached dwellings.