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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2019.03.008
	Disrupting path dependency: Making room for Indigenous knowledge in river management
	Parsons M.; Nalau J.; Fisher K.; Brown C.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0959-3780
EISSN	1872-9495
起始页码	95
结束页码	113
卷号	56 页码:95-113
英文摘要	Scholars frequently identify how path dependency serves to constrain the process of climate adaptation and is a key feature of maladaptation. Most studies, however, centre on theoretical, rather than empirical-based discussions of what path dependency is, how it occurs, and what factors assist in breaking path dependency. This paper provides a case study for the creation, maintenance, and attempts to break path dependency within the management of rivers in the Rangitāiki Plains of Aotearoa New Zealand from the 1890s until 2017. We deploy a historical institutionalist theorising on path dependency and institutional arrangements, while also incorporating ideas from indigenous and postcolonial scholarship, which extends current understandings of the factors that contribute towards path dependency at a local level. Through archival research, we demonstrate how successive generations of government policies and actions directed with a specific goal and underpinned by the hegemonic social values created a profoundly path dependent system of managing rivers and flood events. Increased flood vulnerability is one of the direct consequences of the plethora of freshwater engineering interventions which were (and are still) undertaken on the Rangitāiki Plains over the last century. The foundation of this path dependency, we argue, resides with the processes of indigenous dispossession and the marginalisation of Māori values from environmental governance and policy. Efforts to break path dependency, therefore, involve the formal recognition of Māori governance, values, and knowledge within policies, and the translation of Māori values into tangible actions that seek to destabilise Western command-and control approaches to flood risk management. © 2019 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Climate change adaptation; Flood risk; Indigenous peoples; New Zealand; Path dependency; River management
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography
scopus关键词	adaptive management; climate change; environmental policy; environmental risk; flood; governance approach; indigenous knowledge; marginalization; river management; Manawatu-Wanganui; New Zealand; North Island; Rangitikei River
来源期刊	Global Environmental change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/97163
作者单位	School of Environment, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, 1142, New Zealand; School of Environment and Science, Griffith Sciences, Griffith University, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Parsons M.,Nalau J.,Fisher K.,et al. Disrupting path dependency: Making room for Indigenous knowledge in river management[J],2019,56:95-113.
APA	Parsons M.,Nalau J.,Fisher K.,&Brown C..(2019).Disrupting path dependency: Making room for Indigenous knowledge in river management.Global Environmental change,56,95-113.
MLA	Parsons M.,et al."Disrupting path dependency: Making room for Indigenous knowledge in river management".Global Environmental change 56(2019):95-113.