Abstract
This chapter has two main purposes. One purpose is to provide examples of how the sustainability framework can be applied. Because it is relatively novel approach, illustrations provide the reader with an understanding of what the application entails and valuable insights that can be gained by this approach. The second purpose is to describe the water management topics to which the framework is applied to in the remaining chapters of the book.
The first two sections address the identification of failure pathways: one covering illustrative examples; the second the chapters addressing water management failure pathways for Canterbury. The process of identifying water management failure pathways is illustrated for the Waimakariri catchment. This involves the interpretation of sustainability issues as adaptive cycles ; the identification of critical variables and their thresholds for management ; and how adaptive cycles for different spatial or time scales are nested and how they are connected. In addition, the example of maladaptive cycles is illustrated by the analysis of dryland salinity in the Western Australian agricultural region. In the second section, the failure pathways for water management are derived from the ten failure pathways identified in Chap. 4 and how they are addressed in the remainder of the book is explained.
The other two sections address the formulation of sustainability strategies . One illustration of a sustainability strategy compares the water availability elements of the Canterbury Water Management Strategy as an example of integrated water management, with the initial concept that was focused only on storage as the strategy for addressing water availability. A second illustration is the resilience analysis for Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere which facilitated a rehabilitation strategy being implemented where multi-criteria effects analysis had failed to lead to any action. The last section describes how subsequent chapters are structured to discuss the steps in applying the sustainability framework to develop a sustainability strategy: sustainability assessments, sustainability decision making and sustainability appraisal . It also describes how the concluding chapter brings together the insights gained from failure pathway analysis to identify implications for water management in Canterbury .
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Notes
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Refer to Sect. 2.2 for regional plan provisions under the Resource Management Act .
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1:1 Flow sharing: as river flow increases 50% of the additional flow can be extracted while 50% is specified to remain in the river
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Greywacke is a slightly metamorphosed sandstone and mudstone with structural characteristics (joint and fractures) that make it susceptible to being broken up by water action (Environment Canterbury <CitationRef CitationID="CR11" >2006</Citation Ref>).
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Technically, gravel refers to a specific size range of rock fragments: 2–64 mm)
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This modelling assumed the current rate of sea level rise of 1.8 mm/year measured at the Port of Lyttelton. The modelled effect of an additional 0.5 m sea level rise over 50 years would be a reduction in the rate of shoreline advance.
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Kondratiev cycles are cycles in the world economy with a cycle period of forty to sixty years characterised by four phases of prosperity, recession, depression and recovery which can be related respectively to the exploitation -accumulation, accumulation-disturbance , disturbance -reorganisation , and reorganisation -exploitation sequences of the adaptive cycle .
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These socio-economic components were based on Ostrom’s approach of collaborative governance through ‘self-managed communities’(Ostrom <CitationRef CitationID="CR37" >1990</Citation Ref>).
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The Wahine storm is the biggest storm to strike New Zealand in the last 50 years. It was associated with Cyclone Giselle but is commonly known as the Wahine storm as the inter-island ferry Wahine sank during the storm with the tragic loss of 54 lives (NIWA <CitationRef CitationID="CR36" >2017</Citation Ref>).
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Taonga means a treasure, considered to be of value including socially and culturally valuable resources.
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Refer to Sect. 2.2 for Resource Management Act legislative provisions.
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Jenkins, B.R. (2018). Application of Sustainability Framework. In: Water Management in New Zealand's Canterbury Region. Global Issues in Water Policy, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1213-0_5
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