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Water Management in New Zealand's Canterbury Region

A Sustainability Framework

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  • Describes the limitations of the current NZ water management framework for water resources at sustainability limits
  • Sets out the application of an alternative water management paradigm for Canterbury based on nested adaptive systems and collaborative governance
  • Presents a sustainability framework of failure pathways and sustainability strategies that can be applied to the sustainable management of natural resources
  • Provides a detailed analysis of water management in Canterbury and the changes needed to achieve sustainable management
  • Demonstrates how this framework can be applied to significant international water management issues

Part of the book series: Global Issues in Water Policy (GLOB, volume 19)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
  2. Introduction

    • Bryan R. Jenkins
    Pages 1-18
  3. Institutional and Theoretical Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Water Management Framework in New Zealand

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 21-36
    3. Water Management in Canterbury

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 37-81
    4. Application of Sustainability Framework

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 111-150
  4. Failure Pathway Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
    2. Cumulative Effects at the Catchment Scale

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 153-203
    3. Socio-economic Failure Pathways

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 237-275
    4. Management of Waterborne Disease

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 277-310
    5. Regional Level Socio-economic Failure Pathways

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 311-337
  5. Sustainability Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 339-339
    2. Sustainability Assessments

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 341-376
    3. Decision Making for Sustainability

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 377-430
  6. Implications for Water Management in the Canterbury Region

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 431-431
    2. Biophysical Limits and Sustainable Management

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 433-462
    3. Concluding Comments

      • Bryan R. Jenkins
      Pages 505-512

About this book

The book is designed to achieve two major purposes. The first is to describe the developments in water management policy in the Canterbury Region of New Zealand. The strategic approach, the collaborative engagement, and, the nested adaptive systems approach represent a paradigm shift in water management in New Zealand. The second is to delineate the sustainability framework that underpins the Canterbury approach. The framework is based on the concept of developing sustainability strategies to address critical failure pathways. While the focus of the book is on Canterbury, comparative applications of the framework to issues in other parts of New Zealand and international issues are proposed.

The book can be used in at least two ways. The first is the application of a sustainability framework to the management of water in Canterbury region. The second is the exposition of a sustainability framework that can be applied to the management of water in a region with the application to Canterbury as an illustrative case study.




Authors and Affiliations

  • Hyde Park, Australia

    Bryan R. Jenkins

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eBook USD 129.00
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Softcover Book USD 169.99
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Hardcover Book USD 169.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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