scholarly journals Volunteer monitoring as a focus for community engagement in water management in Aotearoa-New Zealand: review and prospects

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 671-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Valois ◽  
Rob Davies-Colley ◽  
Richard Storey ◽  
Aslan Wright-Stow ◽  
Rebecca Stott ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Professional Support ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Volunteer Monitoring ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Community Initiative ◽  
Community Volunteers ◽  
Freshwater Management ◽  
Regional Authorities

Abstract This article overviews community-based water monitoring (CBWM) in Aotearoa-New Zealand (NZ). CBWM was strongly boosted in NZ around 2000 by the development of the Stream Health Monitoring and Assessment Kit (SHMAK) and the Wai Care community initiative. Reform of freshwater management in NZ may be one driver for renewed interest recently in CBWM. Because professionals perceive volunteer-monitoring data as unreliable, they currently give little support to volunteer monitoring. To address their concern, we compared CBWM with measurements by regional authorities (RAs) – the main water management agencies in NZ. Agreement was encouragingly close for a comprehensive range of variables, including the important state-of-environment (SoE) indicators: visual clarity, Escherichia coli and macroinvertebrates. Community volunteers need and want ongoing professional support and encouragement, and, fortunately, there are important benefits for water management agencies, including engagement of citizens in water management and use of volunteer data. Professional support for CBWM in NZ could include: advice and encouragement, training, database development and quality assurance. Current research and development is focused on improving resources and systems for volunteer monitoring, notably with upgrading of the SHMAK. We are enlisting volunteers, equipped with improved tools and support systems, to assess the benefits of riparian rehabilitation and the suitability of water for swimming.

Integrating Indigenous Knowledge and Freshwater Management: An Aotearoa/New Zealand Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maui Hudson ◽  
Erina Watene-Rawiri ◽  
Mahuru Robb ◽  
Kevin Collier ◽  
Shaun Awatere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Freshwater Management

scholarly journals Rethinking Freshwater Management in the Context of Climate Change: Planning for Different Times, Climates, and Generations

2021 ◽  
pp. 419-462
Author(s):  
Meg Parsons ◽  
Karen Fisher ◽  
Roa Petra Crease
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Settler Colonialism ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Time Shape ◽  
Freshwater Management

AbstractIn this chapter, we explore environmental justice as an intergenerational imperative for Indigenous peoples by examining how different conceptions of time shape responses to climate change. We offer insights into how bringing Māori, Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, understandings of time can open new spaces for thinking about and planning for climate change in ways that do not reinforce and rearticulate the multiple environmental injustices (disproportionately experienced by Indigenous peoples because of settler colonialism). We examine how Māori concepts of time (as a spiral) and kaitiakitanga (environmental guardianship) challenge the dominant framing of climate change (premised on anthropometrism and forward-thinking temporality) and provide the opportunity to consider how climate justice (encompassing both mitigation and adaptation) as involving intergenerational responsibilities to both human and more-than-human beings.

Everyday experiences of post-politicising processes in rural freshwater management

2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 1413-1431 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda C Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
The State ◽  
Liberal Democracies ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Freshwater Management

There has been a burgeoning of geography literature that draws on post-politics to make sense of trends in Western liberal democracies. This body of literature argues that consensus is constructed around capitalism, and spaces for dissensus are closed off. However, critiques have focused on the state-centric and totalising nature of some of this literature. This article adds nuance and depth to explorations of post-politicising processes. I do this through an empirical case study that demonstrates how dissensus is disavowed through the construction of community, and highlights gendered and classed experiences of this disavowal. In exploring a rural community in Aotearoa New Zealand engaged in catchment-based decision making, I draw on Nancian critical community scholarship to analyse how neoliberal and rural discourses defined belonging. Boundaries, and who could access the catchment committee, were shaped by expectations of economic consumption, spatial membership, gendered behavioural norms and class. The policing of these boundaries became increasingly antagonistic to the point of threats of violence. Accounts by those who experienced this policing demonstrate the embodied and largely banal nature of post-politicising processes. And yet, this case study illustrates how efforts to depoliticise are entangled with politicisation and raises questions about how change unfolds.

scholarly journals ‘The past is always in front of us’: Locating Historical Māori Waterscapes at the Centre of Discussions of Current and Future Freshwater Management

2021 ◽  
pp. 75-119
Author(s):  
Meg Parsons ◽  
Karen Fisher ◽  
Roa Petra Crease
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Past ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Freshwater Management

AbstractThis chapter examines the historical waterscapes of Indigenous Māori iwi (tribes) and hapū (sub-tribes) in the Waipā River (Aotearoa New Zealand). We highlight some of the principles of Te Ao Māori (the Māori world) that shaped Māori understandings and engagements with their ancestral waters and lands prior to colonisation. We explore how the arrival of Europeans resulted in Māori embracing new technologies, ideas, and biota, but always situating and adapting these new imports to fit within their Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies. In contrast, British colonial officials were unwilling to embrace such cross-cultural learnings nor allow Te Ao Māori to peacefully co-existent with their own world (Te Ao Pākehā). Military invasion, war, and the confiscation of Māori land occurred, which laid the foundations for environmental injustices.

Collaborative Planning in Response to Policy Failure: The Case of Freshwater Management in Canterbury, Aotearoa New Zealand

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Kirk
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Collaborative Planning ◽  
Government Agency ◽  
Regional Council ◽  
Policy Failure ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Freshwater Management

ABSTRACT This article identifies the factors behind a shift to collaborative planning in regional freshwater management. The Canterbury Regional Council, a local government agency in the South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand, was struggling to exercise authority and autonomy over freshwater management in the region during the 1990s and 2000s. The case study explores the regional council’s failure to create authoritative policy, which resulted in policy being rewritten and modified through litigation in the courts. In response, the regional council pursued collaborative planning mechanisms, which co-opted competing pro-development and pro-conservation interest groups, for freshwater management in the region.

Paying it forward to end period poverty in Aotearoa/New Zealand: Pedagogies and politics of care, community, and academic activism

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Zonjić ◽  
Caitlin Baker-Wanhalla ◽  
Serena Cooper ◽  
Olivia Dobbs ◽  
Romy Gellen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Student Activism ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Academic Activism ◽  
The University ◽  
University Classrooms ◽  
Pedagogical Approaches

Period poverty is a significant issue in Aotearoa/New Zealand, yet public discourses around menstruation are rare, marked by social stigma, and kept outside of university classrooms. Simultaneously, student activism is on the rise, as are critical pedagogical approaches that resist hierarchical education models and value community engagement. In this article, we draw on shared lecturer/student experiences of taking part in COMS305: Media and Social Change, a course at the University of Canterbury in 2020, during which five students started a menstrual item donation drive benefitting two local charities. Together, we reflect on the initiative and wrestle with a number of questions arising from it before offering future recommendations.

scholarly journals Three Perspectives on Canterbury Freshwater Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan Pham ◽  
Tom Lambie ◽  
Karaitiana Taiuru
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Regional Council ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Freshwater Management ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Water Management Strategy

Freshwater management has attracted more public and media attention in Canterbury than in any other New Zealand region. Public interest peaked with the controversial 2010 dismissal of the elected regional council under special legislation (Environment Canterbury (Temporary Commissioners and Improved Water Management) Act 2010). For a range of views on these complex issues, we asked three people intimately involved in the process – elected councillor Lan Pham, appointed commissioner Tom Lambie and Ngäi Tahu cultural rights expert Karaitiana Taiuru – to contribute a short essay assessing the Canterbury Water Management Strategy. 

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