Enabling mātauranga-informed management of the Kaipara Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hepi, Maria; Foote, Jeffrey; Makey, Leane; Badham, Monique; Te Huna, Alyssce
• Is Part Of: New Zealand journal of marine and freshwater research. Volume 52:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 497
• Page End: 510
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Mātauranga-informed management -- environmental decision-making -- indigenous knowledge -- integrated catchment management -- kaitiakitanga; Marine biology -- New Zealand -- Periodicals; Freshwater biology -- New Zealand -- Periodicals; Freshwater biology; Marine biology; New Zealand; Periodicals; 578.77099305
• DOI: 10.1080/00288330.2018.1521845
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1175-8805

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Integrated Kaipara Harbour Management Group (IKHMG) promotes the integrated management, inter-agency coordination and kaitiakitanga of the Kaipara Harbour and its catchment. Led by the hapū (subtribe) Te Uri o Hau, the group is a collective of stakeholders and community. In 2013, the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) and Te Uri o Hau examined the IKHMG to understand what enables and hinders mātauranga-informed management of the Kaipara Harbour. A review of literature relating to mātauranga and environmental resource management found a myriad of issues in integrating indigenous knowledge with science, or with indigenous knowledge holders working with scientists and/or resource managers. Our cross-cultural collaborative research examined to what extent the IKHMG overcame these issues and incorporated mātauranga into planning and decision-making. We make the case that the challenge facing cross-cultural integrated catchment programmes should not be so much 'how to integrate indigenous knowledge into resource management' but 'how to integrate indigenous knowledge holders into planning and decision-making' to enable indigenous knowledge holders to articulate management in their own terms as an expression of self-determination.