Integrated catchment management—a decade of research in the Motueka River catchment

The great experiment with devolved NRM governance: lessons from community engagement in Australia and New Zealand since the 1980s

“…The challenge of effectively engaging Indigenous people also reflects the multi-faceted nature of governance, including the reality that NRM has to compete for the attention of Indigenous people with education, health and employment. Nevertheless, there have been some instructive co-management projects with Iwi, including collaborative research programs such as Motueka's ICM program that ran from 2000-2011 (Fenemor et al 2011) and the long running study (14 years) of the last large-scale customary harvesting of the tītī (Puffinus griseus) by Rakiura Māori. The latter study was, in part, a response to Māori concerns about the long term viability of the tītī resource (Moller et al 2009).…”

Doing integration in catchment management research: Insights into a dynamic learning process

“…Integrated research for improving catchment management is an important policy objective internationally (Bammer et al, 2005a,b;McCulloch, 2007;Orr et al, 2007;Luukkonen and Neveda, 2010;Fenemor et al, 2011b). Policy makers, research institutions and research funders increasingly recognise integrated research as a way of combining multiple perspectives and insights to address complex issues of sustainability such as catchment management and climate change (Shackley and Wynne, 1995;Brouwer et al, 2005;Allen et al, 2011;Fenemor et al, 2011a).…”