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Improving New Zealand water governance: challenges and recommendations

Author(s) -

Elizabeth Eppel

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

policy quarterly

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2324-1101

pISSN - 2324-1098

DOI - 10.26686/pq.v10i3.4501

Subject(s) - livelihood , corporate governance , appeal , environmental planning , business , agriculture , ideal (ethics) , fresh water , water resources , natural resource economics , water resource management , environmental resource management , political science , geography , economics , environmental science , ecology , finance , archaeology , biology , law

and badly polluted some of our water resources. Such problems point to significant weaknesses in the governance of fresh water in this country. This article explores these governance issues through a complex adaptive systems lens and outlines some possible solutions. Our lives and our livelihoods depend on fresh water. Our cities and the appeal of our countryside to New Zealanders and tourists alike are based on plentiful supplies of fresh water. The overwhelming majority of New Zealand’s exports – not least agricultural and horticultural – require water, and in large quantities. Indeed, in many respects water is New Zealand’s largest export. Yet the management of our fresh water has not been ideal. We have over-allocated,

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