One ecosystem, one national park: a new vision for biodiversity conservation in New Zealand

Abstract

The first New Zealand National Park was a gift from Māori, but subsequent management of National Parks has largely reflected a utilitarian European perspective. The Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 confers 'legal personality' on the entire Whanganui River catchment, recognising it as a 'living whole' that 'supports and sustains' the people. The Act is founded on holistic and long-term values shared by Māori and ecological science. During the three decades since the founding of the Department of Conservation in 1987, three major transformations in environmental thinking and practice are founded in similar values: (1) increased respect for nature as a community to which people belong; (2) cities as a major focus for ecological restoration; and (3) rapidly growing scale in landscape restoration. We build on these values and developments to propose the concept of National Park Aotearoa, a whole-of-nation vision for bicultural ecological restoration.

Social dimensions in island restoration: some case studies from Aotearoa – New Zealand

“…The form and history of the first of these is unique to New Zealand. (Daugherty and Towns 2019;Lyver et al 2019), which further emphasises that restoration is essentially a social enterprise with cultural overlays. In many cases, those involved in island restoration projects are growing in confidence in consulting and collaborating with mana whenua to ensure aori (M¯ are Taha M¯ aori issues) appropriately incorporated into project plans.…”

Whole-of-Nation Moral Learning by Spiritual Hearts: A Case of Brunei’s Transformation to tackle the COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Hence, the need for continuous purification within the organization/nation (Tarip, 2020). Furthermore, the whole-of-nation approach can be adopted here due to its emphasis on collaboration and coordination among stakeholders, i.e., public, private, and the wider community, to holistically tackle common issues, such as national security (Berkowitz, 2012), health care (Gluckman & FRS, 2017), smart cities (Chia, 2016), and environmental protection (Daugherty & Towns, 2019). Specifically for tackling COVID-19, several works have elaborated on the whole-of-nation approach in different contexts, such as Brunei (Omar & Halim, 2021;Shahrill et al, 2021), Singapore (Qijia Chua et al, 2020), and Taiwan (Hsieh et al, 2021).…”

Whole-of-nation Moral Learning by Spiritual Hearts: A Case of Brunei’s Evolving Education System

“…The nation had to adopt the 'wholeof-nation' approach, an approach aimed at boosting collaboration and coordination among stakeholders, i.e., public, private and the wider community, to holistically tackle common issues, such as national security, 59 health care, 60 smart cities, 61 and environmental protection. 62 In this paper, one WoNML trajectory situated within Brunei's context is selected: the (re)Islamisation of the national education system. This contemporary case illustrates the noetic of the spiritual hearts in sustaining and/or transforming existing structures and cultures of the society and respective institutions.…”