TY  - BOOK
AU  - Parsons, Meg
AU  - Fisher, Karen
AU  - Crease, Roa Petra
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.1007/978-3-030-61071-5
ID  - OAPEN ID: ONIX_20210315_9783030610715_6
KW  - Environmental Policy
KW  - Sociology, general
KW  - Environmental Geography
KW  - Environmental Management
KW  - Geography, general
KW  - Environment, general
KW  - Environmental Social Sciences
KW  - Environmental Studies
KW  - Integrated Geography
KW  - Environmental Sciences
KW  - Applied Ecology
KW  - freshwater policies
KW  - freshwater systems
KW  - nature/culture
KW  - indigenous land management
KW  - Aotearoa
KW  - land rights
KW  - social memories
KW  - river governance
KW  - Decolonisation
KW  - environmental justice
KW  - Waipā River
KW  - degraded freshwater systems
KW  - environmental guardianship
KW  - Indigenous environmental justice
KW  - open access
KW  - Central / national / federal government policies
KW  - Sociology
KW  - Development & environmental geography
KW  - Environmental management,
KW  - Geography
KW  - The environment
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/dcd3da0f-4c97-4c29-a041-c1ffc01339ae/9783030610715.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47268
PB  - Springer Nature
PY  - 2021
SN  - 9783030610715
TI  - Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene : Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand
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