<scp>N</scp>ew <scp>Z</scp>ealand's ‘wild and scenic rivers’: Geographical aspects of 30 years of water conservation orders

Hughey, Kenneth F.D.; Rennie, Hamish; Williams, Nick

doi:10.1111/nzg.12037

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“…There is wide variability in the extent to which ecological services provided by large floodplain river ecosystems in NZ have been affected by pressures. Numerous large rivers such as the Buller (7th order) and Rakaia are renowned for their 'wild and scenic' characteristics, protected by statutory Water Conservation Orders that are designed to preserve their 'outstanding' status (Hughey et al 2014). By contrast, other rivers have suffered extensive ecological degradation due to multiple pressures, as is particularly the case for several rivers in the North Island such as the Whanganui and the Waikato (Gluckman 2017;Brierley et al 2019;Collier et al 2019).…”

Section: Impacts: Effects To Large Floodplain River Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Large floodplain river restoration in New Zealand: synthesis and critical evaluation to inform restoration planning and research

Abell¹,

Pingram

Özkundakci

et al. 2022

Reg Environ Change

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New Zealand (NZ) has a diversity of large river ecosystems that provide essential ecosystem services but are impaired by multiple ecological impacts. River restoration is an active field worldwide and there is good potential for river restoration practitioners in NZ to draw on lessons from elsewhere, although there is also a need to tailor approaches to national and local contexts. Here, we provide a critical review of large floodplain river restoration to guide environmental management in NZ and inform research and management priorities. The review is structured using a driver-pressure-state-impact-response framework, with a focus on responses, i.e. large river restoration methods. Thirty-one river restoration methods aligned with 14 broad restoration goals were evaluated collaboratively and semi-quantitatively. Evaluation outcomes are presented to inform regional and national scale restoration planning. Recommendations were identified to address eight key knowledge or policy gaps: (1) understanding cumulative impacts facing large river systems, (2) prioritising restoration measures at the landscape-scale, (3) promoting lateral connectivity in large river floodplains, (4) incorporating knowledge of geomorphology into river management, (5) enhancing understanding of cultural priorities and community aspirations, (6) assessing how costs and benefits of river restoration vary among timescales, (7) understanding the feasibility of restoration methods that have received limited application in NZ and (8) improving protection of threatened native fish species.

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Section: Impacts: Effects To Large Floodplain River Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Large floodplain river restoration in New Zealand: synthesis and critical evaluation to inform restoration planning and research

Abell¹,

Pingram

Özkundakci

et al. 2022

Reg Environ Change

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“…Australia attempted but failed to pass a bill that would establish a national system. At the time the U.S. was finalizing the WSRA, New Zealand was embarking on its own campaign to establish a similar system designed to protect outstanding bodies of water and values including "fisheries, wildlife, cultural, recreational, wild, scenic, or scientific" [44]. In addition to these outstanding values, Indigenous Maori values were explicitly set out for protection under this policy, suggesting the Wild and Scenic policy can be used for what Ellis and Perry describe as an anticolonial policy for re-Indigenizing water resources [45].…”

Section: National River Conservation Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Global Analysis of Durable Policies for Free-Flowing River Protections

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Freshwater ecosystems are poorly represented in global networks of protected areas. This situation underscores an urgent need for the creation, application, and expansion of durable (long-term and enforceable) protection mechanisms for free-flowing rivers that go beyond conventional protected area planning. To address this need, we must first understand where and what types of protections exist that explicitly maintain the free-flowing integrity of rivers, as well as the efficacy of such policy types. Through policy analysis and an in-depth literature review, our study identifies three main policy mechanisms used for such protections: (1) River Conservation Systems; (2) Executive Decrees and Laws; and (3) Rights of Rivers. We found that globally only eight counties have national river conservation systems while seven countries have used executive decrees and similar policies to halt dam construction, and Rights of Rivers movements are quickly growing in importance, relative to other protection types. Despite the current extent of protection policies being insufficient to tackle the freshwater and biodiversity crises facing the world’s rivers, they do provide useful frameworks to guide the creation and expansion of protections. Ultimately, as countries act on global calls for protections, policy mechanisms must be tailored to their individual social and ecological geographies.

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“…), conservation and legality (Hughey et al . ) and inclusion and exclusion (Nissen ). These questions are important.…”

Section: Practicementioning

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“…Rather, it must also consider how institutions play out in practice. The papers here discuss several aspects of governance, including monitoring , conservation and legality (Hughey et al 2014) and inclusion and exclusion (Nissen 2014). These questions are important.…”

Section: Practicementioning

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Freshwater geographies? Place, matter, practice, hope

Gibbs

2014

N Z Geog

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In light of the contributions to this special issue I propose four directions for future research in freshwater geographies: place, matter, practice and hope. First, in spanning the social and physical sciences, the discipline of geography can shed light on water as part of biophysical, socio-cultural, political place. Second, notwithstanding the importance of place, the materiality of water matters. Third, practice encompasses two distinct fields: cultural practices of interaction with water places and practices of governing. Finally, in the face of abuse of freshwater and of peoples' relationships with water places, geography can work towards imagining and enacting hopeful futures. AbstractIn light of the contributions to this special issue I propose four directions for future research in freshwater geographies: place, matter, practice and hope. First, in spanning the social and physical sciences, the discipline of geography can shed light on water as part of biophysical, socio--cultural, political place. Second, notwithstanding the importance of place, the materiality of water matters. Third, practice encompasses two distinct fields: cultural practices of interaction with water places and practices of governing. Finally, in the face of abuse of freshwater and of peoples' relationships with water places, geography can work towards imagining and enacting hopeful futures.

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New Zealand's ‘wild and scenic rivers’: Geographical aspects of 30 years of water conservation orders

Cited by 8 publications

References 1 publication

Large floodplain river restoration in New Zealand: synthesis and critical evaluation to inform restoration planning and research

Large floodplain river restoration in New Zealand: synthesis and critical evaluation to inform restoration planning and research

Global Analysis of Durable Policies for Free-Flowing River Protections

Freshwater geographies? Place, matter, practice, hope

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