Wetland management in New Zealand: Are current approaches and policies sustaining wetland ecosystems in agricultural landscapes?

Myers, Shona; Clarkson, Beverley R.; Reeves, Paula; Clarkson, Bruce D.

doi:10.1016/j.ecoleng.2012.12.097

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“…A final consideration relates to political land administrative collaboration since the wetlands are shared by two or more administrations or land owners (e.g., the riparian vegetation). In our case study, actors were challenged with trade-off situations that could arise during decision-making, such as legal consequences (e.g., individual rights to abstract groundwater upheld by courts) and inadequately protecting common resources, such as groundwater for ecosystems [63,79,80]. The environmental preferences of the involved actors determined the environmental outputs of the decision-making process.…”

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Matching Ecosystem Functions with Adaptive Ecosystem Management: Decision Pathways to Overcome Institutional Barriers

Nanda

Rijke

Beesley

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Environmental management strategies aim to protect or repair ecological assets (ecosystems, species) so that their ecological and social values can be preserved. However, creating an effective strategy is difficult because multiple government departments are involved and because water and land use legislation and policy instruments are often fragmented. A key obstacle that is often overlooked is the spatial mismatch between ecological processes and institutional organisation (i.e., legislative framework and government departments). Successful management depends on the ability to cultivate resilient ecosystems through institutional reforms that take into account the complexity of ecosystems while supporting cross-sectoral and scale-dependent decision-making within the science-policy interface. Here, we use a case study approach to illustrate how collective strategic decisions can be made to manage a valued ecosystem situated within an urban matrix. We used a three-step framework to guide our approach and commenced by identifying a range of adaptation measures (i.e., management interventions) and the actors responsible. For each adaptation measure, we then investigated (i) mismatches among ecosystem and institution scales and levels; (ii) institutional barriers; and (iii) the role of actors in decision making. We use this information to identify 'decision pathways': i.e., a flexible decision-making platform that assists stakeholders to make strategic short-and long-term decisions. Key insights included the discussion of policy and practical experiences for ecosystem management at different levels and the necessary conditions to provide better alignment between jurisdictional an ecosystem scale to guide decision makers accordingly. We detail the institutional and jurisdictional changes that must be implemented across all levels of governance to protect and support the resilience of environmental assets. 'Short-term' decision pathways were preferred among actors and cross-level cooperation at jurisdictional level provided an adequate fit with the ecosystem scale. 'Long-term' decisions require substantial change of the institutional framework to enable the implementation of adaptive management. Although challenges at institutional and jurisdictional scales remain, decision pathways promote adaptive ecosystem management through a better fit of jurisdictional and institutional roles/policy and ecosystem-scale processes.

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Matching Ecosystem Functions with Adaptive Ecosystem Management: Decision Pathways to Overcome Institutional Barriers

Nanda

Rijke

Beesley

et al. 2018

Water

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“…Private land ownership is common in many countries, such as Spain [5], New Zealand [2], or China [7], although, increasingly, land is being acquired by local authorities and NGOs, as observed in the UK [3]. Both cases require the involvement of local communities in designing conservation policies and even in the management of these ecosystems.…”

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“…However, even today, the management of these areas is largely influenced by social pressures regardless of their ecological value and their role in the hydrological cycle [2]. A wide range of pressures affect these ecosystems and alter the quality and quantity of water, such as: groundwater abstraction for irrigation and urban water supply, drainage of agricultural land, runoff from farming (e.g., pesticides and fertilizers), or wastewater discharge [3,4].…”

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“…Wetland policies and management frameworks are difficult to implement and they are failing to stop the destruction of wetlands and their conversion to other land uses, in both developed and developing countries [6], especially in areas with increased competition with other land uses, such as coastal areas [2]. Local governments tend to support the realignment of boundaries to facilitate economic development when there is a conflict between conservation and infrastructure projects [7].…”

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“…The author of [8] describes three eras of development of the coastal wetland policy in developed countries: the era of wetland exploitation, the era of policy transition and the era of wetland conservation. There has been a major change in policy priorities in a short period of time: from drainage and conversion of wetlands for agriculture to a ban on filling and an attempt to preserve these areas for environmental purposes [2,3,8]. In the last decade, we have moved to a fourth era [9,10].…”

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Wetland Planning: Current Problems and Environmental Management Proposals at Supra-Municipal Scale (Spanish Mediterranean Coast)

Sebastiá-Frasquet

Altur

Sanchis

2014

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Abstract:The policies that define the use and management of wetlands in Spain have undergone tremendous changes in recent decades. During the period of 1950-1980, Land Reform Plans promoted filling and draining of these areas for agricultural use. In 1986, with the incorporation of Spain to the European Union (EU), there was a sudden change of direction in these policies, which, thereafter, pursued restoring and protecting these ecosystems. This change, combined with increasing urban development and infrastructure pressures (e.g., roads, golf courses, etc.), creates a conflict of uses which complicates the management of these ecosystems by local governments. This study analyzes the effectiveness of policies and management tools of important coastal wetlands at the local scale in the Valencian Community (Western Mediterranean Sea) using a strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats (SWOT) methodology. A supra-municipal model of environmental planning is proposed to enable consistent management at a regional scale. This model enhances local government's effectiveness and it can be applied in other areas with similar problems.

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

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Wetland management in New Zealand: Are current approaches and policies sustaining wetland ecosystems in agricultural landscapes?

Cited by 52 publications

References 11 publications

Matching Ecosystem Functions with Adaptive Ecosystem Management: Decision Pathways to Overcome Institutional Barriers

Matching Ecosystem Functions with Adaptive Ecosystem Management: Decision Pathways to Overcome Institutional Barriers

Wetland Planning: Current Problems and Environmental Management Proposals at Supra-Municipal Scale (Spanish Mediterranean Coast)

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

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