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New Zealand's 'wild and scenic rivers': Geographical aspects of 30 years of water conservation orders

Hughey, Kenneth
Rennie, Hamish
Williams, NJ
Date
2014-04
Type
Journal Article
Fields of Research
ANZSRC::060204 Freshwater Ecology , ANZSRC::040608 Surfacewater Hydrology , ANZSRC::050209 Natural Resource Management , ANZSRC::3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience , ANZSRC::4406 Human geography
Abstract
Attempts to protect and preserve New Zealand's wild and scenic rivers received statutory support in 1981 through amendments to the Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967. These legislative provisions, Water Conservation Orders, were retained in the Resource Management Act 1991, although there was a broadening of the type of waters and range of values that could be protected. An analysis of the 15 water conservation orders granted enabled the identification of a typology that reveals some distinctive geographic and temporal patterns.
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