Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene  Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand 

 -  Springer Nature  2021 
 - 1 online resource (494 p.) 
 - Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management .
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> This open access book crosses disciplinary boundaries to connect theories of environmental justice with Indigenous people's experiences of freshwater management and governance. It traces the history of one freshwater crisis - the degradation of Aotearoa New Zealand's Waipā River- to the settler-colonial acts of ecological dispossession resulting in intergenerational injustices for Indigenous Māori iwi (tribes). The authors draw on a rich empirical base to document the negative consequences of imposing Western knowledge, worldviews, laws, governance and management approaches onto Māori and their ancestral landscapes and waterscapes. Importantly, this book demonstrates how degraded freshwater systems can and are being addressed by Māori seeking to reassert their knowledge, authority, and practices of kaitiakitanga (environmental guardianship). Co-governance and co-management agreements between iwi and the New Zealand Government, over the Waipā River, highlight how Māori are envisioning and enacting more sustainable freshwater management and governance, thus seeking to achieve Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ). 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>978-3-030-61071-5 9783030610715 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.1007/978-3-030-61071-5  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Central / national / federal government policies<br/>Environmental management<br/>Geography<br/>Physical geography and topography<br/>Sociology<br/>The environment
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Aotearoa Applied Ecology Central / national / federal government policies Decolonisation degraded freshwater systems Development & environmental geography Environment, general Environmental Geography environmental guardianship environmental justice Environmental Management Environmental management, Environmental Policy Environmental Sciences Environmental Social Sciences Environmental Studies freshwater policies freshwater systems Geography Geography, general Indigenous environmental justice indigenous land management Integrated Geography land rights nature/culture open access river governance social memories Sociology Sociology, general The environment Waipā River