Māori Co-Governance and/or Co-Management of Nature and Environmental Resources
An effective way to increase Indigenous participation in decision-making over territories and natural resources has been to create mechanisms for shared or joint decision-making with other bodies. This chapter addresses the co-governance and/or co-management of territories and natural resources in Aotearoa New Zealand. It first addresses the concept of co-management: history, background, definitions and typologies. It lists a range of examples of co-governance and/or co-management arrangements between Māori and local, regional and/or central government. This is not designed to be a critical analysis but more a survey and an introduction, as befitting a textbook, to put such arrangements in perspective by providing a rudimentary framework for their analysis. To this end it provides a list of factors that have been determined by others to be indicators of successful co-governance and/or co-management arrangements, and a list of lessons for devising co-governance and co-management arrangements. It discusses some examples of individual arrangements, and provides a table summarising co-management arrangements in Aotearoa New Zealand