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Enabling kaitiakitanga and EBM

Exploring how Kaitiakitanga and EBM can operate alongside one another within coastal and marine environments.

Project LeaderDurationBudget
Lara Taylor (Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research) & Dan Hikuroa (University of Auckland)June 2020 – June 2023$638,900

Overview

Aotearoa New Zealand’s increasingly degraded coastal and marine environments are, in part, a consequence of the radical ecological changes following colonisation. The colonising processes sidelined mātauranga Māori and Kaitiakitanga-based environmental management in favour of scientific knowledge, and associated environmental management and governance approaches.

We need new marine management approaches that incorporate multiple forms of knowledge, including scientific and mātauranga Māori. Any new approach must also address Māori rights, interests and values as Treaty partners, mana whenua and kaitiaki.

This project explores how science and mātauranga Māori – the knowledge systems informing ecosystem-based management (EBM) and Kaitiakitanga – can better inform the governance and management of the marine and coastal environments of Aotearoa.

This project explores 2 key questions:

  1. What are the alignments and differences between Kaitiakitanga and EBM, and how can these approaches successfully work together?
  2. How can place-based practitioners, policy makers and others engaged in EBM bring both science and mātauranga Māori together to underpin decision making?

The project team is co-developing a practical kete of strategies and tools that practitioners can use for collaborative, Tiriti-based, kaitiakitanga and EBM approaches in environmental governance and management at local, regional and national scales.

The Project Advisory Group comprised a diversity of experts from across the three spheres of influence (rangatiratanga, kāwanatanga and relational).

Research Team

Lara Taylor (E Oho!)
Dan Hikuroa (University of Auckland)
Meg Parsons (University of Auckland)
Desna Whaanga-Schollum (DWS Creative ltd)

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Project proposal

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Location

This is a national project.

Tools & Resources

This project has produced or contributed to:

Indigenous environmental justice within marine ecosystems: A systematic review of the literature on indigenous peoples’ involvement in marine governance and management
Academic publication
Parsons M, Taylor L and Crease R (2021). Sustainability 13(8), 4217. Open access
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Kāwanatanga ‘Future Search’ Panel - Waiheke participants
Presentation
Online workshop and panel discussion by Alex Rogers, Andrew Jeffs, Matt von Sturmer, Pippa Coom and Lucy Tukua. February 2022 (36 mins + Q&A).
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Te Au o Te Moana story series
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This series aims to whakamana (empower) the voices of researchers, co-developers, Māori partners and communities of research and practice associated with Sustainable Seas and their relationship with the moana.
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Te Au o Te Moana | Special webinar series: Improved decision-making for the moana
Presentation
This webinar was presented by project leaders from the theme Enhancing EBM practices. March 2022 (45m + 15m Q&A)
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Seafood: Tools, resources and research
Summary
This is a research round-up of our tools, resources and research that support an ecosystem-based management (EBM) approach to the seafood industry (July 2022)
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Kāwanatanga ‘Future Search’ workshop summary report
Summary
A summary of the 1-day workshop with the Kāwanatanga sphere in which we a collaborative engagement and action-planning tool called Future Search was trialled.
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Te Kete Kaitiakitanga
Report
Tools to enable kaitiakitanga & ecosystem-based management
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