Water management in New Zealand's Canterbury region : a sustainability framework

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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxx Introduction (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 1-18 Front Matter ....Pages 19-19 Water Management Framework in New Zealand (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 21-36 Water Management in Canterbury (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 37-81 The Collapse of the Maya and the Development of a Sustainability Framework (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 83-109 Application of Sustainability Framework (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 111-150 Front Matter ....Pages 151-151 Cumulative Effects at the Catchment Scale (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 153-203 Biophysical System Failure Pathways at the Regional Scale (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 205-236 Socio-economic Failure Pathways (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 237-275 Management of Waterborne Disease (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 277-310 Regional Level Socio-economic Failure Pathways (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 311-337 Front Matter ....Pages 339-339 Sustainability Assessments (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 341-376 Decision Making for Sustainability (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 377-430 Front Matter ....Pages 431-431 Biophysical Limits and Sustainable Management (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 433-462 Socio-economic Issues and Collaborative Governance (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 463-504 Concluding Comments (Bryan R. Jenkins)....Pages 505-512 Back Matter ....Pages 513-524