TY  - JOUR
TI  - Ngā Puna Aroha: towards an indigenous-centred freshwater allocation framework for Aotearoa New Zealand
AU  - Taylor, Lara Bernadette
AU  - Fenemor, Andrew
AU  - Mihinui, Roku
AU  - Sayers, Te Atarangi
AU  - Porou, Tina
AU  - Hikuroa, Dan
AU  - Harcourt, Nichola
AU  - White, Paul
AU  - O’Connor, Martin
T2  - Australasian Journal of Water Resources
AB  - Aotearoa New Zealand’s environmental policy and legislation recognises Māori Indigenous principles and values, and gives prominence to Te Mana o te Wai (the authority of water itself). However, current policy, legislation, and practice are inadequate for enabling Māori rights and interests in water takes and instream flows and levels, in terms of both involvement and specific allocation mechanisms supporting Māori values. We argue that a policy and implementation space needs to be created that ensures indigenous Māori engagement and outcomes in freshwater governance, planning, and management. This space should provide for an integrated, precautionary, and bicultural ‘First Principles’ approach, ensuring that Māori rights and interests consistent with Te Tiriti o Waitangi/the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) are enabled, including the exercise of mātauranga Māori (knowledge informed by Māori worldviews), tikanga (Māori customs and lore), and kaitiakitanga (guardianship). We outline a potential water allocation framework, Ngā Puna Aroha, that could provide direction and give confidence and certainty to the implementers of national water policy. Such an approach would need to be supported by a broader bicultural policy and we suggest an overarching philosophy Ngā Taonga Tuku Iho, which would encompass all natural ‘resource’ management, providing a korowai (cloak) for the management of each particular ‘resource’ or taonga (treasure) including freshwater. This type of bicultural proposal could inform freshwater and wider natural ‘resource’ management policymaking, regulatory frameworks, and implementation nationally and internationally.
DA  - 2021/01/02/
PY  - 2021
DO  - 10.1080/13241583.2020.1792632
DP  - Taylor and Francis+NEJM
VL  - 25
IS  - 1
SP  - 27
EP  - 39
SN  - 1324-1583
ST  - Ngā Puna Aroha
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2020.1792632
Y2  - 2023/05/09/01:28:14
KW  - Urban planning
ER  -