TY - JOUR TI - Supporting the design of useful and relevant holistic frameworks for land use opportunity assessment for indigenous people AU - Harcourt, Nichola AU - Robson-Williams, Melissa AU - Tamepo, Reina T2 - Australasian Journal of Water Resources AB - Choices about how to use land are critical to efforts to manage water quality in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Māori and non-Māori communities need decision-making frameworks that enable their values and priorities to inform land use choices. However, few of the available frameworks meet the needs of Māori communities. It is challenging to construct decision-making frameworks that have true utility for both Māori and non-Māori land stewards because of differences in their relationships with the whenua (land), the wai (the water) and te taiao (the environment). Additionally, Māori may utilise different types and formats of data in their decision-making from those traditionally encompassed by science-based frameworks. This paper aims to help non-indigenous researchers understand the required development processes and design features if a framework aimed at a broad audience is to have genuine relevance and utility for indigenous users. To achieve this, we utilised a modified version of Cash et al.’s Credibility, Salience and Legitimacy framework to evaluate a range of land use decision-making frameworks. We discuss why science-based concepts of holism are not the same as those embodied by a Māori worldview. We conclude that it is essential to co-develop frameworks in genuine partnership with Māori. DA - 2022/01/02/ PY - 2022 DO - 10.1080/13241583.2022.2031571 DP - Taylor and Francis+NEJM VL - 26 IS - 1 SP - 116 EP - 130 SN - 1324-1583 UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2022.2031571 Y2 - 2023/05/09/01:28:17 KW - Urban planning ER - 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 -