Overview
- This is an open access book
- Traces how the degradation of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Waipa River is linked to settler-colonial acts of ecological dispossession of Indigenous Maori iwi (tribes)
- Highlights how Maori envision and enact more sustainable freshwater management and governance
- Explores how co-governance and co-management agreements between Maori iwi and the New Zealand Government can achieve Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ)
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management (PSNRM)
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About this book
The book provides an accessible way for readers coming from a diversity of different backgrounds, be they academics, students, practitioners or decision-makers, to develop an understanding of IEJ and its applicability to freshwater management and governance in the context of changing socio-economic, political, and environmental conditions that characterise the Anthropocene.
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Keywords
- environmental management
- freshwater policies
- freshwater systems
- nature/culture
- indigenous land management
- Aotearoa
- land rights
- social memories
- river governance
- Decolonisation
- environmental justice
- Waipā River
- degraded freshwater systems
- environmental guardianship
- Indigenous environmental justice
- open access
- Environmental Geography
Table of contents (12 chapters)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Karen Fisher (Ngāti Maniapoto, Waikato-Tainui, Pākehā) is an associate professor in the School Environment, University of Auckland, New Zealand. Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a human geographer with research interests in environmental governance and the politics of resource use in freshwater and marine environments.
Roa Petra Crease (Ngāti Maniapoto, Filipino, Pākehā) is an early career researcher who employs theorising from feminist political ecology to examine climate change adaptation for Indigenous and marginalised peoples. Recent publications explore theintersections of gender justice and climate justice in the Philippines, and mātuaranga Māori (knowledge) of flooding.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene
Book Subtitle: Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand
Authors: Meg Parsons, Karen Fisher, Roa Petra Crease
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61071-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61070-8Published: 16 February 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61073-9Published: 06 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61071-5Published: 15 February 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-4331
Series E-ISSN: 2946-434X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 494
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Environmental Geography, Environmental Management, Geography, general, Environment, general