Co-innovation to increase community resilience: Influencing irrigation efficiency in the Waimakariri Irrigation Scheme

The implications of a co-innovation project, which included elements of biophysical and social science are examined, particularly as they relate to conceptualisation(s) of community resilience. The framework of community resilience is used to explain how a farming region in New Zealand has increased their social, human and environmental capital, despite a recent decline in economic capital as a result of a reduction in the global value of milk powder. The social learning, alteration of the project, and changes in decision making as a result of the project are reported in an example of positive outcomes from effectively facilitated transdisciplinary work.