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Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene
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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.
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Keywords
- Aotearoa
- Applied ecology
- Central / national / federal government policies
- Central government
- Central government policies
- décolonisation
- 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
- Physical geography & topography
- Politics & government
- river governance
- Social Memories
- Society & Social Sciences
- Sociology
- Sociology & anthropology
- Sociology, general
- The environment
- Waipā River
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61071-5Editions