title: Civil strategies for future generations

authors: Daya-Winterbottom, Trevor

abstract: This paper will examine the barriers to implementing climate justice from a New Zealand perspective. In particular, the paper will focus on the governance arrangements for implementing the Paris Agreement, administrative justice and the potential for activist NGO strategies following the majority Supreme Court decision in Buller Coal, and the role of the next generation in reconfiguring how we conceive environmental law and institutions in the remainder of this century.
These themes will be interrogated through a critical analysis of deliberate political choice in framing climate change response legislation, the need to guarantee administrative justice through effective judicial remedies, the differing perceptions of the next generation about how to address climate change articulated via the most recent report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, emerging new generational ways of holding government and institutions to account advanced by the Sarah Thomson judicial review proceedings before the High Court, and the vision for a new political agenda to confront the challenge of climate change imagined by Max Harris.

text: Civil strategies for future generations This paper will examine the barriers to implementing climate justice from a New Zealand perspective. In particular, the paper will focus on the governance arrangements for implementing the Paris Agreement, administrative justice and the potential for activist NGO strategies following the majority Supreme Court decision in Buller Coal, and the role of the next generation in reconfiguring how we conceive environmental law and institutions in the remainder of this century.
These themes will be interrogated through a critical analysis of deliberate political choice in framing climate change response legislation, the need to guarantee administrative justice through effective judicial remedies, the differing perceptions of the next generation about how to address climate change articulated via the most recent report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, emerging new generational ways of holding government and institutions to account advanced by the Sarah Thomson judicial review proceedings before the High Court, and the vision for a new political agenda to confront the challenge of climate change imagined by Max Harris.

year: 2018

title: Potential Lake Rotorua scenarios

authors: Gibbs, Max M.

abstract: Lakes need weeds, good ones (native species) not bad (invasive exotic species), although even exotic species are better than no weeds. Without aquatic macrophytes, a lake can become phytoplankton dominated with low clarity and high chlorophyll concentrations, a condition from which it is difficult to recover. The challenge is to manage the macrophytes to the advantage of the lake to obtain the highest practical water quality that is acceptable to lake users, within the financial constraints of a rates-based budget.
Lake Rotorua has sufficient surface area and depth that macrophytes, by themselves, are not likely to control water clarity and phytoplankton growth. However, their management may be a critical factor in the restoration of Lake Rotorua. In this talk I look at potential scenarios associated with managing aquatic macrophytes in Lake Rotorua. With the availability of a weed harvester dedicated to the Te Arawa/Rotorua lakes, there are a number of options that can be applied to Lake Rotorua that would be beneficial to the lake and the people who use the lake. For example, the weed harvester can be used to mow
the weed beds to remove part of the nutrient load from the lake and thus improve the lake water quality. The Lake Rotorua Action Plan is looking to reduce the N load on the lake by an additional 50 t y-1. Weed harvesting has the potential to achieve this. Removal of the tops of surface-reaching macrophyte beds around some stream mouths may improve
trout fishing for anglers while maintaining the habitat that the trout need in shallow water. Clearance of boat ramps and maintenance of lake access are obvious applications. So is the mowing of the large areas of macrophyte beds adjacent to Rotorua city lake front to reduce plant break-off in wave action and thereby reduce the incidence of macrophytes washing ashore. These are just some of the potential Lake Rotorua scenarios.

text: Potential Lake Rotorua scenarios Lakes need weeds, good ones (native species) not bad (invasive exotic species), although even exotic species are better than no weeds. Without aquatic macrophytes, a lake can become phytoplankton dominated with low clarity and high chlorophyll concentrations, a condition from which it is difficult to recover. The challenge is to manage the macrophytes to the advantage of the lake to obtain the highest practical water quality that is acceptable to lake users, within the financial constraints of a rates-based budget.
Lake Rotorua has sufficient surface area and depth that macrophytes, by themselves, are not likely to control water clarity and phytoplankton growth. However, their management may be a critical factor in the restoration of Lake Rotorua. In this talk I look at potential scenarios associated with managing aquatic macrophytes in Lake Rotorua. With the availability of a weed harvester dedicated to the Te Arawa/Rotorua lakes, there are a number of options that can be applied to Lake Rotorua that would be beneficial to the lake and the people who use the lake. For example, the weed harvester can be used to mow
the weed beds to remove part of the nutrient load from the lake and thus improve the lake water quality. The Lake Rotorua Action Plan is looking to reduce the N load on the lake by an additional 50 t y-1. Weed harvesting has the potential to achieve this. Removal of the tops of surface-reaching macrophyte beds around some stream mouths may improve
trout fishing for anglers while maintaining the habitat that the trout need in shallow water. Clearance of boat ramps and maintenance of lake access are obvious applications. So is the mowing of the large areas of macrophyte beds adjacent to Rotorua city lake front to reduce plant break-off in wave action and thereby reduce the incidence of macrophytes washing ashore. These are just some of the potential Lake Rotorua scenarios.

year: 2015

title: Moehewa: Death, lifestyle & sexuality in the Maori World

authors: Nikora, Linda Waimarie

abstract: Customary death ritual and traditional practice have continued for the Māori (indigenous) people of Aotearoa/New Zealand, despite intensive missionary incursion and the colonial process. This paper critically considers what occurs when the deceased is different, in a most significant way. What happens when you die – and you are Māori and any one, or a combination, of the following: a queen, takatāpui,[1] butch, like that, gay, she-male, lesbian, transsexual, a dyke, intersex, tomboy, kamp, drag, homosexual, or just queer? Who remembers you and how? Same sex relationships today are still discouraged or denied, although traditional chant and Māori visual narratives record such liaisons and erotic experience as joyously normal (Te Awekotuku, 2005). And yet some people choose to remain in the closet. In this paper, we present three case studies, and invite the reader to reflect with us on mourning rituals or tangi – Māori death rites, in a same sex relationship, or for a gay, lesbian or transsexual family member. In this way, we open up a space for dialogue about such matters in our intimate and kin communities.

text: Moehewa: Death, lifestyle & sexuality in the Maori World Customary death ritual and traditional practice have continued for the Māori (indigenous) people of Aotearoa/New Zealand, despite intensive missionary incursion and the colonial process. This paper critically considers what occurs when the deceased is different, in a most significant way. What happens when you die – and you are Māori and any one, or a combination, of the following: a queen, takatāpui,[1] butch, like that, gay, she-male, lesbian, transsexual, a dyke, intersex, tomboy, kamp, drag, homosexual, or just queer? Who remembers you and how? Same sex relationships today are still discouraged or denied, although traditional chant and Māori visual narratives record such liaisons and erotic experience as joyously normal (Te Awekotuku, 2005). And yet some people choose to remain in the closet. In this paper, we present three case studies, and invite the reader to reflect with us on mourning rituals or tangi – Māori death rites, in a same sex relationship, or for a gay, lesbian or transsexual family member. In this way, we open up a space for dialogue about such matters in our intimate and kin communities.

year: 2016