Improving New Zealand water governance: challenges and recommendations
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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, 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.
Complex Adaptive Systems Approach to Simulate the Sustainability of Water Resources and Urbanization
2013 ◽
Vol 139
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pp. 554-564
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2014 ◽
Vol 140
(1)
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pp. 75-85
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2019 ◽