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Teaching environmental sustainability through an ecosystem-based management lens
  • Guidance

The kaupapa and philosophy behind developing courses which teach environmental sustainability through an ecosystem-based management lens (Ma…

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Calculating ecological response footprints
  • Guidance

This guidance uses stressors and seabed ecosystem characteristics to determine the relationship between stressor and ecological response foo…

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Bringing it all together for a healthy ocean and prosperous blue economy
  • Guidance

The knowledge, guidance, and tools needed to reverse degradation trends and realise a healthy ocean (May 2024)

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Testing the adoption of decision support tools with end-users
  • Guidance

Guidance on decision support tools for ecosystem-based management (April 2024)

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Assessing present health
  • Guidance

Guidance on assessing the present ecological health of the area (May 2024)

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Roadmaps to ecosystem-based management
  • Guidance

A series of documents to address questions around enabling ecosystem-based management (May 2024)

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Empowering Māori knowledge in marine decision-making
  • Guidance
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Recommendations to achieve the benefits of marine decision-making that is informed by mātauranga Māori (May 2024)

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Addressing risk and uncertainty in decision-making
  • Guidance
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Recommendations for better risk assessment methods (May 2024)

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Developing pathways to a flourishing blue economy
  • Guidance
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Recommendations for building pathways towards a blue economy (May 2024)

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Marine governance – sustaining ocean outcomes for future generations
  • Guidance
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Recommendations for effective and appropriate marine governance (May 2024)

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Restoring marine ecosystems through better management and financing
  • Guidance
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Recommendations to foster a restorative blue economy (May 2024)

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Enabling ecosystem-based management in Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine law and policy
  • Guidance
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Recommendations to ensure healthy outcomes for Aotearoa New Zealand’s ocean and people (May 2024)

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Addressing cumulative effects in marine management decisions
  • Guidance
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Recommendations for addressing cumulative effects (May 2024)

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Enabling effective marine spatial planning for ecological and economic wellbeing
  • Guidance
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Recommendations for marine spatial planning in Aotearoa New Zealand (May 2024)

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Enabling a broad knowledge base for marine management decisions
  • Guidance
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Recommendations for marine management decisions and advice to be supported by different types of knowledge (May 2024)

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Accounting for uncertainty in marine ecosystem service predictions for spatial prioritisation
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Rullens V, Stephenson F, Townsend M, Lohrer A, Hewitt J, Pilditch C & Ellis J
(March 2024)

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Composition of two starfish in Ōhiwa harbour
  • Guidance

This guidance contains the potential bioactives and composition data within two starfish species samples (November 2022)

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Coupling marine ecosystem state with environmental management and conservation: A risk-based approach
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Gladstone-Gallagher R, Hewitt J, Low J, Pilditch C, Stephenson F, Thrush S & Ellis J (February 2024)

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Quick guides: Navigating risk and uncertainty in marine management
  • Guidance

A series of five quick guides on navigating risk and uncertainty in marine management (November 2023)

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Understanding and communicating risk and uncertainty | te tūraru me te haurokuroku in marine management
  • Guidance

Blackett P, Awatere S, Le Heron E, Le Heron R, Logie J, Hyslop J, Ellis J, Stephenson F, Hewitt J, Ziedins I, Armoudian M, Bulmer R, Clark D…

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Toward a network perspective in coastal ecosystem management
  • Academic publication

Gladstone-Gallagher R, Thrush S, Low J, Pilditch C, Ellis J & Hewitt J
(November 2023)

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Scaling up benthic primary productivity estimates in a large intertidal estuary using remote sensing
  • Academic publication

Shao Z, Bryan K, Flowers G, Lehmann M & Pilditch C (September 2023)

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Inefficiency of conversion of seed into market-ready mussels in New Zealand's Greenshell™ mussel (Perna canaliculus) industry
  • Academic publication

Skelton B, South P & Jeffs A (November 2022)

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Taura kuku: prioritising Māori knowledge and resources to create biodegradable mussel spat settlement lines for shellfish restoration in Ōhiwa harbour
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Paul-Burke K, Burke J, Ngarimu-Cameron R, Bulmer R, Cameron K, O’Brien T, Bluett, C & Ranapia M (September 2022)

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Integrating western science with Māori knowledge to understand changes in sedimentation and water quality in Ōhiwa Harbour
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La Croix A, Stewart B, Paul-Burke K & Bryan K (February 2023)

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Kia aiō ngā ngaru, kia hora te marino: smoothing the waters in natural resource management to mitigate risk and uncertainty
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Hyslop J, Harcourt N, Awatere S, Hikuroa D, Blackett P & Le Heron R (May 2023)

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Implications for the conservation of deep-water corals in the face of multiple stressors: a case study from the New Zealand region
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Stephenson F, Rowden A, Anderson O, Ellis J, Geange S, Brough T, Behrens E, Hewitt J, Clark M, Tracey D, Goode S, Petersen G & Lundquist C (…

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Pātaka Kōrero User Guide
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  • Guidance

This resource demonstrates some of the main functions and elements of the front-end user interface of the Pātaka Kōrero system, a digital st…

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Using ecosystem response footprints to guide environmental management priorities
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Low J, Gladstone-Gallagher R, Hewitt J, Pilditch C, Ellis J & Thrush S (August 2023)

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Emergence of the subtropical sea urchin Centrostephanus rodgersii as a threat to kelp forest ecosystems in northern New Zealand
  • Academic publication

Balemi C & Shears N (August 2023)

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Designing law and policy for the health and resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems – Lessons from (and for) Aotearoa New Zealand
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Macpherson E, Jorgensen E, Paul A, Rennie H, Fisher K, Talbot-Jones J, Hewitt J, Allison A, Banwell J & Parkinson A (June 2023)

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New Zealands media and the crisis in the ocean: News norms and scientific urgency
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Armoudian M, Stevens G, Stephenson F & Ellis J (May 2023)

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Ecological network analysis of traits reveals variable response capacity to stress
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Gladstone-Gallagher R, Hewitt J, Siwicka E, Gammal J, Brustolin M, Norkko A, Pilditch C & Thrush S (May 2023)

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Evidence of rebound effect in New Zealand MPAs: Unintended consequences of spatial management measures
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Lohrer T, Hewitt J, Lohrer A, Parsons D, Ellis J & Stephenson F (May 2023)

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Going under: The implications of sea-level rise and reduced light availability on intertidal primary production
  • Academic publication

Flowers G, Needham H, Bulmer R, Lohrer A & Pilditch C (April 2023)

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The legacies of land-clearance and trophic downgrading accumulate to affect structure and function of kelp forests
  • Academic publication

Wing S, Shears N, Tait L & Schiel D (December 2022)

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Extracting remotely-sensed water quality parameters from shallow intertidal estuaries
  • Academic publication

Shao Z, Bryan K, Lehmann M & Pilditch C (December 2022)

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Improving predictions of coastal benthic invertebrate occurrence and density using a multi-scalar approach
  • Academic publication

Watson S, Stephenson F, Pilditch C & Lundquist C (November 2022)

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Broadening environmental governance ontologies to enhance ecosystem-based management in Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Academic publication

Fisher K, Makey L, Macpherson E, Paul A, Rennie H, Talbot-Jones J & Jorgensen E (September 2022)

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Seaweed Sector Framework
  • Guidance

This co-developed roadmap shows how Aotearoa New Zealand could grow its rimurimu/seaweed sector in a way for the country to gain environment…

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Ecosystem service mapping in marine environments: a case study
  • Guidance

This guidance explains what ecosystem service mapping is, and why it is useful for marine managers, planners, and other decision-makers. It …

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Disturbance–recovery dynamics inform seafloor management for recovery
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Hewitt J, Gladstone‐Gallagher R & Thrush S (September 2022)

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A socio-ecological appraisal of perceived risks associated with mangrove (Mānawa) management in Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Academic publication

Le Heron R, Lundquist C, Logie J, Blackett P, Le Heron E, Awatere S & Hyslop J (July 2022)

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Stressors increase the impacts of coastal macrofauna biodiversity loss on ecosystem multifunctionality
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Gammal J, Hewitt J, Gladstone-Gallagher R, Thrush S, Douglas E, Lohrer A
& Pilditch C (July 2022)

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Navigating risk within iwi/hapū environmental decision-making - Potential pathways based on the published literature
  • Academic publication

Mayall-Nahi M, Williams E, May K, Kainamu A, Ratana K (November 2021)

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Participatory processes and the evolution of environmental agendas in estuary restoration: the Maketū case
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This article analyses participatory processes in estuary restoration in Maketū on the East Coast of the North Island to examine how evolving…

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The impact of cumulative stressor effects on uncertainty and ecological risk
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Rullens V, Stephenson F, Hewitt J, Clark D, Pilditch C, Thrush S, Ellis J
(October 2022)

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User guide: Tools for ecosystem-based management
  • Guidance

The purpose of this guide is to help resource managers, kaitiaki and others to identify appropriate tools, developed and/or used by the Sus…

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Characterising the regulatory seascape in Aotearoa New Zealand: bridging local, regional and national scales for marine ecosystem-based management
  • Academic publication

Urlich SC, White FR & Rennie HG (2022) Ocean and Coastal Management, 224: 106193

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An evaluation of strategies for restoring a degraded New Zealand scallop fishery using stochastic dynamic simulation modelling
  • Academic publication

Tarek Soliman, Thomas Robertson, Jeremy McKenzie, James Williams, Utkur Djanibekov, Graeme J. Inglis (2021). Journal of Environmental Manage…

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What does success look like? An indicative rubric to assess and guide the performance of marine participatory processes
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E Le Heron, W Allen, R Le Heron, MJ Logie, B Glavovic, A Greenaway, D Hikuroa, KK Davies, and P Blackett (2021). Ecology and Society 26(1):2…

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Pre-conditions for making (desired) markets in the spirit of Ki Uta Ki Tai – Mountains to the Sea
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D Hikuroa, R Le Heron, E Le Heron (2021). Markets in their Place.

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Explaining reflexive governance through discursive institutionalism: estuarine restoration in Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Academic publication

P Barrett, P Kurian, N Simmonds & R Cretney (2021). Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 23:3, 332-344

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He waka eke noa/we are all in the same boat: A framework for co-governance from aotearoa New Zealand
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Maxwell K, Awatere S, Ratana K, Davies K, Taiapa C (2020). Marine Policy 121:104213

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Oceanographic transport along frontal zones forms carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen isoscapes on the east coast of New Zealand: Implications for ecological studies
  • Academic publication

LM Durante, RO Smith, S Kolodzey, RM McMullin, NH Salmond, CD Schlieman, SA O'Connell-Milne, RD Frew, R Van Hale, SR Wing (2021). Volume 216…

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From data compilation to model validation: comparing three ecosystem models of the Tasman and Golden Bays, New Zealand
  • Academic publication

McGregor VL, Horn P, Dutilloy A, Datta S, Rogers A, Porobic J, Dunn A, Tuck I (2021). PeerJ 9:e11712

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Coastal darkening substantially limits the contribution of kelp to coastal carbon cycles
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CO Blain, SC Hansen, NT Shears. (2021). Coastal darkening substantially limits the contribution of kelp to coastal carbon cycles. Global cha…

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Loss of Giant Kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, driven by marine heatwaves and exacerbated by poor water clarity in New Zealand
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Tait LW, Thoral F, Pinkerton MH, Thomsen MS and Schiel DR (2021). Front. Mar. Sci. 8:721087.

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Missing the forest and the trees: Utility, limits and caveats for drone imaging of coastal marine ecosystems
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Tait LW, Orchard S, Schiel DR (2021). Remote Sensing. 13(16):3136.

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Cataclysmic disturbances to an intertidal ecosystem: loss of ecological infrastructure slows recovery of biogenic habitats and diversity
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Schiel DR, Gerrity S, Orchard S, Alestra T, Dunmore RA, Falconer T, Thomsen MS and Tait LW (2021). Front. Ecol. Evol. 9:767548.

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Threshold effects of relative sea-level change in intertidal ecosystems: Empirical evidence from earthquake-induced uplift on a rocky coast
  • Academic publication

Orchard S, Fischman HS, Gerrity S, Alestra T, Dunmore R, Schiel DR (2021). GeoHazards; 2(4):302-320.

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Cascading impacts of earthquakes and extreme heatwaves have destroyed populations of an iconic marine foundation species
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Thomsen M S, Mondardini L, Thoral F, Gerber D, Montie S, South P M, Tait L, Orchard S, Alestra T, & Schiel D R (2021). Diversity and Distri…

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Advancing approaches for understanding the nature-people link
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Siwicka E, Thrush SF (2020). Ecological Complexity, Volume 44,100877.

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Unraveling ecosystem functioning in intertidal soft sediments: the role of density-driven interactions
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Schenone, S, Thrush, S F (2020) Sci Rep 10, 1190 9 .

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Reframing environmental limits for estuaries
  • Guidance

This document provides an ecological perspective on how to overcome ecological issues related to the use of national environmental limits. H…

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Ngā tohu o te taiao: Observing signs of the natural world to identify seastar over-abundance as a detriment to shellfish survival in Ōhiwa Harbour, Aotearoa/New Zealand
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Paul-Burke K, Ngarimu-Camron R, Paul W, Burke J, Ransfield T, Aramoana W, Cameron K, O’Brien T, & Bluett C (March 2022)

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Risk assessment for marine ecosystem-based management (EBM)
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Clark DE, Gladstone-Gallagher RV, Hewitt JE, Stephenson F, Ellis JI (2022). Conservation Science and Practice, 12636.

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Deep seabed mining and communities: A transdisciplinary approach to ecological risk assessment in the South Pacific
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Reichelt-Brushett A, Hewitt J, Kaiser S, Kim RE, Wood R (2021). Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 00:1-10

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Who is contributing where? Predicting ecosystem service multifunctionality for shellfish species through ecological principles
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Rullens V, Townsend M, Lohrer AM, Stephenson F, Pilditch CA (2022). Science of the Total Environment, 808: 152147

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Mapping the delivery of ecological functions combining field collected data and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
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Schenone S, Azhar M, Ramírez C, Strozzi, A, Delmas P & Thrush S (September 2021)

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Sustaining Seas Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care
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Budiastuti A (2020). Sustaining Seas Oceanic Space and the Politics of Care, edited by Elspeth Probyn, Kate Johnston, and Nancy Lee (Rowman …

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Mātauranga Māori: shaping marine and freshwater futures
  • Academic publication

Clapcott J, Ataria J, Hepburn C, Hikuroa D, Jackson AM, Kirikiri R, & Williams E (2018). New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Resear…

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