# Gail Tipa

Gail Tewaru Tipa ONZM (born 1959) is a New Zealand resource management planner, and has worked in the environmental sector for thirty years. In 2021 Tipa was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and environmental management.

## Career

Tipa is Māori, and affiliates to Kāi Tahu. Tipa has Bachelor of Arts, and a Master's degree in resource and regional planning. She completed a PhD titled Indigenous communities and the co-management of natural resources: the case of New Zealand freshwater management at the University of Otago in 2003. She trained as a teacher initially, and then worked for the Electricity Corporation of New Zealand, and then opened an environmental research and management consultancy. Tipa worked on the Kāi Tahu claim and settlement in the 1990s and has been involved in Kāi Tahu governance. Tipa is particularly concerned with freshwater and fisheries management. Tipa has developed new tools to improve the participation of Māori in freshwater management, including the Cultural Health Index and the Cultural Flow Assessment method.
Tipa is part of the Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga Centre of Research Excellence, and was a member of the inaugural governance group of the New Zealand's Biological Heritage, Ngā Koiora Tuku Iho National Science Challenge. Her work with Ngā Pae was focused on researching the links between environmental integrity and health and wellbeing of Indigenous communities.

## Honours and awards

In the 2021 New Year Honours Tipa was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and environmental management.

## Selected publications

* Ruth Panelli; Gail Tipa (16 September 2008). "Beyond foodscapes: considering geographies of Indigenous well-being". Health & Place. 15 (2): 455–465. doi:10.1016/J.HEALTHPLACE.2008.08.005. ISSN 1353-8292. PMID 18948052. Wikidata Q37307124.
* Mae Noble; Phil Duncan; Darren Perry; et al. (2016). "Culturally significant fisheries: keystones for management of freshwater social-ecological systems". Ecology and Society. 21 (2). doi:10.5751/ES-08353-210222. ISSN 1708-3087. Wikidata Q60512974.
* Michael Stewart; Ngaire Phillips; Greg Olsen; Christopher W Hickey; Gail Tipa (12 March 2011). "Organochlorines and heavy metals in wild caught food as a potential human health risk to the indigenous Māori population of South Canterbury, New Zealand". Science of the Total Environment. 409 (11): 2029–2039. doi:10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2011.02.028. ISSN 0048-9697. PMID 21402398. Wikidata Q83607911.
* Gail Tipa (March 2009). "Exploring Indigenous Understandings of River Dynamics and River Flows: A Case from New Zealand". Environmental Communication Yearbook. 3 (1): 95–120. doi:10.1080/17524030802707818. ISSN 1752-4032. Wikidata Q125127384.
* Jim Sinner; Mark Newton; Jaye Barclay; James Baines; Trisia Farrelly; Peter Edwards; Gail Tipa (May 2020). "Measuring social licence: What and who determines public acceptability of aquaculture in New Zealand?". Aquaculture. 521: 734973. doi:10.1016/J.AQUACULTURE.2020.734973. ISSN 0044-8486. Wikidata Q124287739.
* Gail Tipa; Kyle Nelson (27 August 2016). "Eco-cultural restoration across multiple spatial scales: a New Zealand case study". Water history. 9 (1): 87–106. doi:10.1007/S12685-016-0175-9. ISSN 1877-7236. Wikidata Q113105673.