Exploring the barriers to freshwater policy implementation in New Zealand

Kirk, Nicholas; Robson-Williams, Melissa; Fenemor, Andrew; Heath, Nathan

doi:10.1080/13241583.2020.1800332

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“…Despite innovations in national policies to protect freshwater, barriers to policy implementation have also been identified, including lack of capacity-a constraint also found in this study-and a mismatch between local and national policy (Kirk et al, 2020).…”

Section: System-wide Constraints Affect Landowner Value Expressionmentioning

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“…Additionally, the NZ government abolished or reduced a number of farm production subsidies in 1984 (e.g. fertiliser, weed eradication; irrigation), contributing to farmers increasingly intensifying their activities to remain competitive, continuing to negatively impact wetlands (Kirk et al, 2020;Smith & Montgomery, 2004).…”

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Relational values provide common ground and expose multi‐level constraints to cross‐cultural wetland management

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“…While devolving resource management functions to local government has made sense in many ways, regional councils have also struggled to achieve sustainable management of natural and physical resources. Councils are unevenly resourced and generally do not have the capacity to discharge all of their statutory duties and responsibilities (Kirk et al, 2020). The NZ government is currently reviewing the role of local government.…”

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Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture

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The book brings together a range of leading scholars and practitioners to compile an international account of water allocation policies supporting a transition to sustainable water use in regions where agriculture is the dominant water use. In Section 1, the collection canvasses five key crosscutting issues shaping the challenge of sustainable water allocation policy, such as legal and economic perspectives, the role of politics, the contributions of engineering and technology, the setting of environmental flows, and the importance of indigenous rights. Section 2 presents 16 national, state and transboundary case studies of water allocation policy, covering cases from Europe, the Americas, Central Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific region. These case studies highlight novel and innovative elements of water allocation regimes, which respond to the cross-cutting issues addressed in Section 1, as well as local challenges and social and environmental imperatives. The book provides a comprehensive account of water allocation in a range of international settings and provides a reference point for practitioners and scholars worldwide wishing to draw on the latest advances on how to design and implement sustainable water allocation systems. ISBN: 9781789062779 (print) ISBN: 9781789062786 (eBook) ISBN: 9781789062793 (ePUB)

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“…On the front-line, it is what individuals and communities believe and feel that shapes the process of policy implementation and ultimately, policy success or failure (Hudson, Hunter and Peckham, 2019;Kirk, Robson-Williams, Fenemor, and Heath, 2020). This is compounded in the adoption of policies designed to promote sustainable practices which are commonly found to require physical demonstration (Cary, Webb and Barr, 2001).…”

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A local focus: Implementing policies for land-use change in the Wairoa District

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2021

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This paper explores community attitudes to policies designed to promote increased afforestation in the Wairoa District in Northern Hawkes Bay. The approach adopted involved face-to-face interviews with over 80 local residents, including farmers and iwi representatives, as well as policy makers, land agents, forestry experts, and scientists in Hawke’s Bay and elsewhere in the country. Group meetings were also held with farmers, iwi and others in the Wairoa District. Community engagement extended from mid-2019 to early in 2020. Concerns raised about increased afforestation included its impact on employment and pastoral land use and on the provision of public services. Such concerns are grounded in some part in Wairoa’s history and traditional dependence on the hill country as the source of its identity and social well-being. Increased tree planting confronts the perceptions and experience of many land users and other community members. Resistance is heightened where the policy goals appear to conflict with economic well-being or to undermine existing values. At the same time there is evidence of a broad consensus in favour of tree planting to meet environmental needs. Current policies challenge land users’ capacity to adapt and respond to the opportunities these policies provide. Building capacity requires the provision of information and other evidence to increase understanding among all stake-holder groups

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Exploring the barriers to freshwater policy implementation in New Zealand

Cited by 17 publications

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Relational values provide common ground and expose multi‐level constraints to cross‐cultural wetland management

Relational values provide common ground and expose multi‐level constraints to cross‐cultural wetland management

Water Resources Allocation and Agriculture

A local focus: Implementing policies for land-use change in the Wairoa District

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