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River Co-governance and Co-management in Aotearoa New Zealand: Enabling Indigenous Ways of Knowing and Being

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2020

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Meg Parsons
Karen Fisher*
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School of Environment, University of Auckland (New Zealand).
Meg Parsons
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School of Environment, University of Auckland (New Zealand). Email: meg.parsons@auckland.ac.nz.
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Abstract

Legislation emerging from Treaty of Waitangi settlements provide Māori, the Indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, with new opportunities to destabilize and decolonize the colonial knowledge, processes and practices that contribute towards negative material and metaphysical impacts on their rohe [traditional lands and waters]. In this article we focus our attention on the Nga Wai o Maniapoto (Waipa River) Act 2012 and the Deed of Settlement signed between the Crown (the New Zealand government) and Ngāti Maniapoto (the tribal group with ancestral authority over the Waipā River) as an example of how the law in Aotearoa New Zealand is increasingly stretched beyond settler-colonial confines to embrace legal and ontological pluralism. We illustrate how this Act serves as the foundation upon which Ngāti Maniapoto are seeking to restore, manage, and enhance the health of their river. Such legislation, we argue, provides a far higher degree of recognition of Māori rights and interests both as an outcome of the settlement process and by strengthening provisions under the Resource Management Act 1991 regarding the role of Māori in resource management. We conclude by suggesting that co-governance and co-management arrangements hold great potential for transforming river management by recognizing and accommodating ontological and epistemological pluralism, which moves Aotearoa New Zealand closer to achieving sustainable and just river futures for all.

Keywords

Co-governanceCo-managementNew ZealandMāoriRiver managementOntological pluralism
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Symposium Article
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Transnational Environmental Law , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , November 2020 , pp. 455 - 480
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

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This contribution is part of a collection of articles growing out of a Research Workshop on ‘Indigenous Water Rights in Comparative Law’, held at the University of Canterbury School of Law, Christchurch (New Zealand), on 7 Dec. 2018, funded by the New Zealand Law Foundation.

We would like to thank three anonymous TEL reviewers for their thoughtful engagement with this article and their insightful reviews. We also thank Elizabeth Macpherson and Julia Torres for their helpful comments on earlier versions of this article.

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