Co-Governance and the Case for Shared Decision Making
This article explores some of the key features of co-governance, or shared decision making, between Māori and the Crown. Co-governance models create the conditions for…
Governance & Policy
How do we change our political system to best protect our biological heritage?
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Shouldering the burden: social-ecological scale mismatches in wetland ecosystem management in Aotearoa New Zealand
Social-ecological mismatches in scale limit the recovery of ecosystems from environmental degradation, severely impacting the diverse groups who rely on them. Identifying scale mismatches across…
Summary
BRIEF: Pathways to Ecosystem Regeneration
New Zealander’s care greatly about nature, and each year communities and likeminded individuals show the power of collective efforts: In some suburbs, as many as…
Report
Shared Authority and Responsibility of Our Environments: Why it makes sense to protect our special places together
This briefing explores positive examples of shared authority or co-governance of the environment and the benefits that come from iwi and hapū knowledge and leadership.…
Report
Te Honongā Kawanatanga Māori – Rotorua
This project has been designed to assist DOC to better understand their challenges and priorities when partnering with Māori, identifying material and resources likely to…
Video
Crazy & Ambitious 2 – 2019
A playlist of presentations given at New Zealand’s Biological Heritage Science Challenge conference, Crazy & Ambitious 2. 20 – 21 May 2019, Te Papa Wellington.
Summary
He Puapua Lands Territories and Resources Briefing
Summary of ‘Lands, Territories and Resources’ in He Puapua.
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Restoring mature-phase forest tree species through enrichment planting in New Zealand’s lowland landscapes
To restore secondary forests, depauperate remnant forests and create new forests that have complex structure, high biomass, and natural canopy tree diversity, mature-phase canopy and…
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Voicing stakeholder visions for biodiversity indicators: a framework using content analysis
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Eco-index research programme is developing a 100-year national biodiversity vision. The purpose of the vision is to establish a concrete restoration goal that…
Webinar
The Naturalisation of Finance: Biodiversity Instruments Launch, Wellington
Co-Author of Concept Paper ‘Biodiversity Instruments’ David Hall speaks at the launch in Wellington.
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Caring for our special places and relationships
This guidance presents a briefing on the research undertaken by Tapsell (2022) which explored the dual issue of care (for each other and for the…
Publication
Building biocultural approaches into Aotearoa – New Zealand’s conservation future
Indigenous peoples’ roles in conservation are important because they offer alternate perspectives and knowledge centred on the quality of the human–environment relationship. Here, we present…
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A systematic review of non-market ecosystem service values for biosecurity protection
While quantified environmental benefits from biosecurity protection programmes are available, they remain scarce, patchy, and context-specific. This contributes to the oversight of non-market economic values…
Policy Briefing
BRIEF: Moving freshwater species
Why is it so hard to move freshwater species? – Rethinking freshwater translocation processes and policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Translocating valued species is…
Summary
Collective approaches to regeneration
A two-page summary of the report of the same name found HERE. More and more people are wanting to increase the impact of their environmental restoration…
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Transitioning Environmental Governance: Tikanga Māori and a Political Ethic of Care
This thesis outlines the important roles that tikanga and care ethics have in the governance of our environment. Current governing practices and systems in Aotearoa…
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