Title: 'For environment read conservation': New Zealand as an example of green purity

Authors: Philippa Wells

Addresses: Faculty of Business, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract: The international official and commercial face often presented by New Zealand is one of environmental consciousness. Legal and administrative structures reinforce a message of environmental responsibility. However, evidence does not paint such a rosy picture, suggesting that a structural emphasis on conservation/preservation fails to address problems of wider environmental importance. With fresh water as context, and a case study as example, this paper locates conservation/preservation in the New Zealand environmental landscape. In addition, it offers a brief critique of alternatives to the management of this most vital of resources and notes some wider environmental implications.

Keywords: New Zealand; environmental consciousness; environmental responsibility; nature conservation; environmental preservation; environmental protection; fresh water; resource management; water management; environmental management.

DOI: 10.1504/IER.2005.053942

Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 2005 Vol.7 No.2, pp.43 - 59

Published online: 13 May 2013 *

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