TY - BOOK AU - Parsons,Meg AU - Crease,Roa Petra AU - Fisher,Karen TI - Decolonising Blue Spaces in the Anthropocene: Freshwater management in Aotearoa New Zealand T2 - Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management SN - 978-3-030-61071-5 PY - 2021/// PB - Springer Nature KW - Central government policies KW - bicssc KW - Environmental management KW - Geography KW - Physical geography & topography KW - Sociology KW - The environment KW - Aotearoa KW - Applied Ecology KW - Central / national / federal government policies KW - Decolonisation KW - degraded freshwater systems KW - Development & environmental geography KW - Environment, general KW - Environmental Geography KW - environmental guardianship KW - environmental justice KW - Environmental Management KW - Environmental Policy KW - Environmental Sciences KW - Environmental Social Sciences KW - Environmental Studies KW - freshwater policies KW - freshwater systems KW - Geography, general KW - Indigenous environmental justice KW - indigenous land management KW - Integrated Geography KW - land rights KW - nature/culture KW - open access KW - river governance KW - social memories KW - Sociology, general KW - Waipā River N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/dcd3da0f-4c97-4c29-a041-c1ffc01339ae/9783030610715.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47268 ER -