Landscape Change and Environmental Histories

Pawson, Eric; Brooking, Tom

doi:10.1111/j.1745-7939.2000.tb01576.x

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“…Conversely, this same tenacity also proved challenging for settlers who lost crops or saw diminished productivity due to weeds. As a farm for the British Empire, the productivity of New Zealand's crops and later stock were integral for the success and growth of the Imperial network of European colonies, providing the fuel for the industrial revolution (Brooking & Pawson, 2010; Pawson & Brooking, 2002). Weeds were a threat to this precarious system, and thus managing them became an important priority for the Crown.…”

Section: History Of Weed Discourse‐settler Originsmentioning

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Plants out of place: How appreciation of weeds unsettles nature in New Zealand

Virens

2023

N Z Geog

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Weeds are known as ‘plants out of place’, but how do we come to understand what belongs in place and what does not? Organisms that thrive beyond boundaries of control threaten life that is ‘in place’, or nature. As a threat to life and nature, weeds are transformed into objects of hate and elimination. Exploring the collective hate of weeds helps to untangle the affective dimensions of colonisation. Using the story of the blackberry in Dunedin, both through its settler history and contemporary relationship with urban foragers, this paper describes how weeds have become powerful affective objects.

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Section: History Of Weed Discourse‐settler Originsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Plants out of place: How appreciation of weeds unsettles nature in New Zealand

Virens

2023

N Z Geog

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“…This history has strongly influenced Aotearoa's landscape (Pawson 2018). From land dispossession to a series of practices that included draining of wetlands, chemical intensification for land, and agricultural management to establish 'empires of grass' (Pawson and Brooking 2008), Aotearoa has physically been reconstructed as an "English farm in the Pacific" (Singleton and Robertson 1997). This has implications for the ways our nation might adopt new climate conscious food futures, including food economy interests that are reimagined with Indigenous food production knowledges and practices intact.…”

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Climate change impacts on Aotearoa New Zealand: a horizon scan approach

Macinnis-Ng,

Ziedins,

Ajmal

et al. 2023

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Many of the implications of climate change for Aotearoa (New Zealand) remain unclear. To identify so-far unseen threats and opportunities related to climate change we applied a horizon-scanning process. First, we collated 171 threats and opportunities across our diverse fields of research. We then scored each item for novelty and potential impact and finally reduced the list to ten threats and ten opportunities through a prioritisation process. Within the 20 items presented in this paper, we uncover a range of climate-related costs and benefits. Unexpected opportunities evolve from economic reorganisation and changes to perspectives. The threats we highlight include the overall failure to interconnect siloed policy responses, as well as those relating to extreme events and feedbacks, as well pressures that undermine the coherence of society. A major theme of our work is that climate changes’ effects in Aotearoa are likely to transgress the boundaries of research disciplines, industry sectors and policy systems, emphasising the importance of developing transdisciplinary methods and approaches. We use this insight to connect potential responses to climate change with Aotearoa’s culture and geography.

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“…Agriculture became the economic backbone of this country and with it the need to create the conditions that secured the health and vitality of introduced species – grass, cows, sheep, crops and so on at the expense of the endemic. Environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity (Pawson and Brooking, 2011, 2013; Young, 2004), indigenous dispossession, intergenerational poverty (Walker, 1978) and more recently climate change were just a few of the unintended consequences of this development pathway.…”

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“…The analytics have been constructed from an analysis of genealogical sequences, creation narratives (Best, 1924; Mikaere, 2003; Royal, 2003; Smith, 1913–1915), Aotearoa environmental histories (Ali Memon, 1993; Forster, 2014, 2016; Pawson and Brooking, 2011, 2013; Petrie, 2006; Young, 2004), environmental policies (Waitangi Tribunal, 2011; Williams, 2001a, 2001b) and position documents from Māori academics outlining Māori experiences in and aspirations for the New Zealand research and development sector (Kukutai and Taylor, 2016; Kukutai et al, 2021; Rauika Māngai, 2020; Stats, 2020; Te Mana Raraunga, 2018; The Pūtaiora Writing Group, 2010). Each analytic has its own set of optics for considering how power and influence flows through systems of thought and actions.…”

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Amplifying the influence of Māori knowledge in environmental management

Forster

2022

Environment and Planning F

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Modern mapping systems can provide almost everything there is to know about the environment, except what Māori know. So our interests are not that apparent in a mainstream context despite it being widely acknowledged that Māori have a unique and intergenerational relationship with the land- and waterscapes, and the presence of legislative requirements to reflect Māori political agenda in resource management decision-making. He Tātai Whenua is a project that seeks to assemble Māori knowledge and place it alongside existing environmental databases to render this knowledge highly visible and ensure a greater impact on Aotearoa New Zealand rights and environmental regimes. The challenge is constructing a process that maintains the integrity of Māori knowledge as it crosses into domains that are beyond the direct control of Māori communities as kaitiaki, guardians of that knowledge. In this article, He Tātai Whenua is the focal point of discussions around the importance of indigenous leadership, data sovereignty and a social justice agenda to maintain the integrity of Māori knowledge and navigate knowledge boundaries in the research activity. Two approaches are introduced. The first reflects on exchanges between knowledge systems to identify pathways that protect the integrity of Māori knowledge. The second considers how Māori environmental knowledge can be assembled and interact with science in a manner that makes sense from a Māori worldview. Together, these approaches enable us to develop a confidence in collaborative research and increased trust in how research outputs derived from Māori environmental knowledge will be used and applied to realise bicultural spatial governance.

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Landscape Change and Environmental Histories

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Plants out of place: How appreciation of weeds unsettles nature in New Zealand

Plants out of place: How appreciation of weeds unsettles nature in New Zealand

Climate change impacts on Aotearoa New Zealand: a horizon scan approach

Amplifying the influence of Māori knowledge in environmental management

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