Shaun Awatere
Biographic Data
| ID | 657874 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaun Awatere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaun |
| FAMILY NAME | Awatere |
| SIGNATURE | AWATERE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4616-808X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reimagining, reclaiming, and reconnecting Indigenous voices in urbanism: A review of Indigenous approaches for urban ecological restoration
The protection of nature is a growing concern around the world as competition for resources intensifies. Local communities grapple with ever-increasing challenges like climate change, resource extraction, biodiversity loss, and the imminent development of urban spaces. Work is now being undertaken by local and Indigenous communities to restore nature and protect these areas for future generations. Indigenous peoples who hold a strong belief in na…
Deliberative democracy and te ao Māori in the pursuit of climate change governance
Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity. But some groups, such as Indigenous peoples will face worse effects than others. In Aotearoa (New Zealand) researchers are just starting to study how climate change will affect the health of Indigenous Māori. We spent two years working with health boards to help them think about climate change in their health plans and policies. This showed us that Māori voices were vital in this process. We argue…
Kia whakakorowai i a papatūānuku: An Indigenous conceptualisation of extreme weather events
The article adopts a novel pūkenga- based approach to develop a narrative of extreme weather events informed by Indigenous knowledge. Three key findings, identified from co-learning amongst Indigenous researchers and pūkenga, are seen as required to formally (re)generate knowledges- in-place. First, an understanding of causal factors reveals the collapse of local knowledge narratives and the need to renew these. Second, te ao Māori (TAM) framings…
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori
Ever since colonisation by the British in 1840, Māori, the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, have been fighting to reclaim their mana (authority and influence) over their whenua (land). They were set to regain mana in emergency management (EM) through a parliamentary Bill, but a recent change of government has seen this legislation discharged. This paper explores the barriers to and the opportunities for gains in authority and influence…
Why do we argue about risk? The invisibility of worldviews in marine decision-making
The paper asks “why are we always arguing about risk?” It explores what drives risk perception in decision-making processes in Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine environment. The research’s holistic framing shows that the prevailing concern with risk and uncertainty (RU) issues in government and managerial settings deflects attention from and hides the background influences of worldviews. After introducing the invisibilities around RU and outlining wo…
Adapting to climate change through nature‐based solutions and indigenous knowledge: The case for landscape‐scale ecosystem regeneration in the Rokohouia Delta
This study explores the potential of nature‐based solutions and indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation. It focuses on the Rokohouia Delta located in Aotearoa, New Zealand where Ngāi Tūāhuriri, the Indigenous People of the region, employ strategies deeply rooted in their understanding of the interdependencies between humans and ecosystems, to improve environmental quality. The paper underscores the potential of nature‐based solutions (N…
A 'te ao Māori' disaster risk reduction framework
An ongoing change in legislation means decision-makers in Aotearoa New Zealand need to incorporate 'mātauranga' (Māori knowledge/knowledge system) in central and local government legislation and strategy. This paper develops a 'te ao Māori' (Māori worldview) disaster risk reduction (DRR) framework for non-Māori decision-makers to guide them through this process. This 'interface framework' will function as a Rosetta Stone between the 'two worlds'.…
Kia aiō ngā ngaru, kia hora te marino: Smoothing the waters in natural resource management to mitigate risk and uncertainty
Aotearoa (New Zealand) is undertaking reforms in natural resource management, and there are promising signals that Indigenous perspectives will be included alongside science for decision-making. Any resource management system is underpinned by worldviews, from which values stem and then risk and uncertainty derive. Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) and Eurocentric notions of risk and uncertainty are fundamentally different because kno…
Te Maramataka—An Indigenous System of Attuning with the Environment, and Its Role in Modern Health and Well-Being
The connection between the natural environment and human health is well documented in Indigenous narratives. The maramataka-a Māori system of observing the relationships between signs, rhythms, and cycles in the environment-is underpinned by generations of Indigenous knowledge, observation, and experimentation. The maramataka enabled Māori and our Pacific relatives to attune with the movements of the environment and ensure activities essential fo…
St 1 Century Papakāinga: A blueprint for resilience
Exploitation of geothermal taonga at Ohaki has resulted in irreparable damage to whānau land, tribal land and the marae reservation, including major land subsidence, devastation of wāhi tapu, and groundwater impacts. The whānau, determined to shift from grievance mode to (eco)development mode, are committed to caring for and regenerating their whenua. This article outlines a whānau journey of re-establishing papakāinga. Their narratives provide i…
Four propositions about how valuation intervenes in local environmental politics
Environmental valuation provides a way of soliciting and organising information about how people relate to their environments. By canvassing a broad spectrum of human–nature relationships, valuation practice seeks to make environmental decision‐making more inclusive of diverse human concerns and aspirations. When valuation is undertaken in real‐world decision‐making settings, choices must be made about how to adapt valuation into context. Generic…
Kia Manawaroa Kia Puawai: Enduring Māori livelihoods
Neoliberalism has failed us. Our waterways are contaminated, their mauri (life-force) has diminished; our economic growth is fast approaching environmental limits, almost 4000 of our indigenous plant and animal species are currently threatened with or at risk of extinction, and our biodiversity has declined significantly. Increasingly stringent regulations are being rolled out by policy makers to protect natural systems, but these are framed by E…
He waka eke noa/we are all in the same boat: A framework for co-governance from aotearoa New Zealand
Navigating towards marine co-management with Indigenous communities on-board the Waka-Taurua
Storying Kaitiakitanga: Exploring Kaupapa Māori land and water food stories
This article explores the Indigenous principle of kaitiakitanga as it relates to Māori agrifood practices. Our discussion is based on interviews with a small cross-section of Māori in the agrifood sector whose practices are informed by a long-standing appreciation of the interconnected realities of lands, food, people and waterways. We consider how the shared Kaupapa Māori principles underpinning these food practices form part of a wider Kaupapa …
He Mahere Pāhekoheko Mō Kaipara Moana –Integrated Ecosystem-Based Management for Kaipara Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand
Indigenous peoples must be able to practice their ways of caring for their particular environment within their own belief systems, while also needing to understand western logic and systems, in order to work together efficiently. Navigating the divide between ontological and epistemological differences is challenging, and what this means in practice is unclear. This paper describes a framework of comanagement called He mahere pāhekoheko mō Kaipar…
Whakatipu rawa ma ngā uri whakatipu: Optimising the “Māori” in Māori economic development
One of the great challenges for indigenous and non-indigenous entrepreneurs in the twenty-first century is to move beyond profit maximisation as an acceptable modality for doing business and gravitate towards the concept of socially optimal outcomes, where maximising community well-being and minimising externalities to the natural environment and social justice are paramount. We present findings from a case-study analysis of Māori enterprises tha…
Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Harmsworth, G., S. Awatere, and M. Robb. 2016. Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Ecology and Society 21(4):9.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08804-210409
What is the Degree of Mātauranga Māori Expressed through Measures of Ethnicity
This research hypothesized that respondents who have a good understanding of mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) are those with a secure cultural identity and are more likely to be concerned with the environment. A quantitative survey was carried out using two separate samples drawn from the Māori population; one from the general Māori population (N=331) in the city of Auckland and the other from a sub-tribe (N=61) whose traditional land has been …
Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Harmsworth, G., S. Awatere, and M. Robb. 2016. Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Ecology and Society 21(4):9.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08804-210409
He Mahere Pāhekoheko Mō Kaipara Moana –Integrated Ecosystem-Based Management for Kaipara Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand
Indigenous peoples must be able to practice their ways of caring for their particular environment within their own belief systems, while also needing to understand western logic and systems, in order to work together efficiently. Navigating the divide between ontological and epistemological differences is challenging, and what this means in practice is unclear. This paper describes a framework of comanagement called He mahere pāhekoheko mō Kaipar…
A 'te ao Māori' disaster risk reduction framework
An ongoing change in legislation means decision-makers in Aotearoa New Zealand need to incorporate 'mātauranga' (Māori knowledge/knowledge system) in central and local government legislation and strategy. This paper develops a 'te ao Māori' (Māori worldview) disaster risk reduction (DRR) framework for non-Māori decision-makers to guide them through this process. This 'interface framework' will function as a Rosetta Stone between the 'two worlds'.…
Adapting to climate change through nature‐based solutions and indigenous knowledge: The case for landscape‐scale ecosystem regeneration in the Rokohouia Delta
This study explores the potential of nature‐based solutions and indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation. It focuses on the Rokohouia Delta located in Aotearoa, New Zealand where Ngāi Tūāhuriri, the Indigenous People of the region, employ strategies deeply rooted in their understanding of the interdependencies between humans and ecosystems, to improve environmental quality. The paper underscores the potential of nature‐based solutions (N…
Kia Manawaroa Kia Puawai: Enduring Māori livelihoods
Neoliberalism has failed us. Our waterways are contaminated, their mauri (life-force) has diminished; our economic growth is fast approaching environmental limits, almost 4000 of our indigenous plant and animal species are currently threatened with or at risk of extinction, and our biodiversity has declined significantly. Increasingly stringent regulations are being rolled out by policy makers to protect natural systems, but these are framed by E…
What is the Degree of Mātauranga Māori Expressed through Measures of Ethnicity
This research hypothesized that respondents who have a good understanding of mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) are those with a secure cultural identity and are more likely to be concerned with the environment. A quantitative survey was carried out using two separate samples drawn from the Māori population; one from the general Māori population (N=331) in the city of Auckland and the other from a sub-tribe (N=61) whose traditional land has been …
Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Harmsworth, G., S. Awatere, and M. Robb. 2016. Indigenous Māori values and perspectives to inform freshwater management in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Ecology and Society 21(4):9.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08804-210409
Whakatipu rawa ma ngā uri whakatipu: Optimising the “Māori” in Māori economic development
One of the great challenges for indigenous and non-indigenous entrepreneurs in the twenty-first century is to move beyond profit maximisation as an acceptable modality for doing business and gravitate towards the concept of socially optimal outcomes, where maximising community well-being and minimising externalities to the natural environment and social justice are paramount. We present findings from a case-study analysis of Māori enterprises tha…
He Mahere Pāhekoheko Mō Kaipara Moana –Integrated Ecosystem-Based Management for Kaipara Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand
Indigenous peoples must be able to practice their ways of caring for their particular environment within their own belief systems, while also needing to understand western logic and systems, in order to work together efficiently. Navigating the divide between ontological and epistemological differences is challenging, and what this means in practice is unclear. This paper describes a framework of comanagement called He mahere pāhekoheko mō Kaipar…
He waka eke noa/we are all in the same boat: A framework for co-governance from aotearoa New Zealand
Navigating towards marine co-management with Indigenous communities on-board the Waka-Taurua
Storying Kaitiakitanga: Exploring Kaupapa Māori land and water food stories
This article explores the Indigenous principle of kaitiakitanga as it relates to Māori agrifood practices. Our discussion is based on interviews with a small cross-section of Māori in the agrifood sector whose practices are informed by a long-standing appreciation of the interconnected realities of lands, food, people and waterways. We consider how the shared Kaupapa Māori principles underpinning these food practices form part of a wider Kaupapa …
Four propositions about how valuation intervenes in local environmental politics
Environmental valuation provides a way of soliciting and organising information about how people relate to their environments. By canvassing a broad spectrum of human–nature relationships, valuation practice seeks to make environmental decision‐making more inclusive of diverse human concerns and aspirations. When valuation is undertaken in real‐world decision‐making settings, choices must be made about how to adapt valuation into context. Generic…
Kia Manawaroa Kia Puawai: Enduring Māori livelihoods
Neoliberalism has failed us. Our waterways are contaminated, their mauri (life-force) has diminished; our economic growth is fast approaching environmental limits, almost 4000 of our indigenous plant and animal species are currently threatened with or at risk of extinction, and our biodiversity has declined significantly. Increasingly stringent regulations are being rolled out by policy makers to protect natural systems, but these are framed by E…
St 1 Century Papakāinga: A blueprint for resilience
Exploitation of geothermal taonga at Ohaki has resulted in irreparable damage to whānau land, tribal land and the marae reservation, including major land subsidence, devastation of wāhi tapu, and groundwater impacts. The whānau, determined to shift from grievance mode to (eco)development mode, are committed to caring for and regenerating their whenua. This article outlines a whānau journey of re-establishing papakāinga. Their narratives provide i…
Kia aiō ngā ngaru, kia hora te marino: Smoothing the waters in natural resource management to mitigate risk and uncertainty
Aotearoa (New Zealand) is undertaking reforms in natural resource management, and there are promising signals that Indigenous perspectives will be included alongside science for decision-making. Any resource management system is underpinned by worldviews, from which values stem and then risk and uncertainty derive. Māori (the Indigenous peoples of New Zealand) and Eurocentric notions of risk and uncertainty are fundamentally different because kno…
Te Maramataka—An Indigenous System of Attuning with the Environment, and Its Role in Modern Health and Well-Being
The connection between the natural environment and human health is well documented in Indigenous narratives. The maramataka-a Māori system of observing the relationships between signs, rhythms, and cycles in the environment-is underpinned by generations of Indigenous knowledge, observation, and experimentation. The maramataka enabled Māori and our Pacific relatives to attune with the movements of the environment and ensure activities essential fo…
Why do we argue about risk? The invisibility of worldviews in marine decision-making
The paper asks “why are we always arguing about risk?” It explores what drives risk perception in decision-making processes in Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine environment. The research’s holistic framing shows that the prevailing concern with risk and uncertainty (RU) issues in government and managerial settings deflects attention from and hides the background influences of worldviews. After introducing the invisibilities around RU and outlining wo…
Adapting to climate change through nature‐based solutions and indigenous knowledge: The case for landscape‐scale ecosystem regeneration in the Rokohouia Delta
This study explores the potential of nature‐based solutions and indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation. It focuses on the Rokohouia Delta located in Aotearoa, New Zealand where Ngāi Tūāhuriri, the Indigenous People of the region, employ strategies deeply rooted in their understanding of the interdependencies between humans and ecosystems, to improve environmental quality. The paper underscores the potential of nature‐based solutions (N…
A 'te ao Māori' disaster risk reduction framework
An ongoing change in legislation means decision-makers in Aotearoa New Zealand need to incorporate 'mātauranga' (Māori knowledge/knowledge system) in central and local government legislation and strategy. This paper develops a 'te ao Māori' (Māori worldview) disaster risk reduction (DRR) framework for non-Māori decision-makers to guide them through this process. This 'interface framework' will function as a Rosetta Stone between the 'two worlds'.…
Reimagining, reclaiming, and reconnecting Indigenous voices in urbanism: A review of Indigenous approaches for urban ecological restoration
The protection of nature is a growing concern around the world as competition for resources intensifies. Local communities grapple with ever-increasing challenges like climate change, resource extraction, biodiversity loss, and the imminent development of urban spaces. Work is now being undertaken by local and Indigenous communities to restore nature and protect these areas for future generations. Indigenous peoples who hold a strong belief in na…
Deliberative democracy and te ao Māori in the pursuit of climate change governance
Climate change is the biggest threat to humanity. But some groups, such as Indigenous peoples will face worse effects than others. In Aotearoa (New Zealand) researchers are just starting to study how climate change will affect the health of Indigenous Māori. We spent two years working with health boards to help them think about climate change in their health plans and policies. This showed us that Māori voices were vital in this process. We argue…
Kia whakakorowai i a papatūānuku: An Indigenous conceptualisation of extreme weather events
The article adopts a novel pūkenga- based approach to develop a narrative of extreme weather events informed by Indigenous knowledge. Three key findings, identified from co-learning amongst Indigenous researchers and pūkenga, are seen as required to formally (re)generate knowledges- in-place. First, an understanding of causal factors reveals the collapse of local knowledge narratives and the need to renew these. Second, te ao Māori (TAM) framings…
Barriers to and opportunities for the restoration of mana in emergency management legislation and its implementation for Māori
Ever since colonisation by the British in 1840, Māori, the indigenous peoples of Aotearoa New Zealand, have been fighting to reclaim their mana (authority and influence) over their whenua (land). They were set to regain mana in emergency management (EM) through a parliamentary Bill, but a recent change of government has seen this legislation discharged. This paper explores the barriers to and the opportunities for gains in authority and influence…
Indigenous (13 works) · Ecology (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (8 works) · Aotearoa (6 works) · Biology (6 works) · Business (6 works)