Talk:Co-governance

Models of co-governance
Perhaps people could contribute their understanding of a model of co-governance based on their experience. That way, concise explanations of alternative models could be described. Each model could be fleshed out: why and how they came to be, their expected and actual effects. Partly unworldly (talk) 07:49, 21 September 2023 (UTC)


 * , thanks for starting on the co-governance article. I admire your enthusiasm but please keep in mind that Wikipedia doesn’t allow original research. We have draw upon published media, academic and government sources such as news reports, media columns, journal articles, books, reports, and encyclopedia entries. For New Zealand, official sources such as the Ministry for Culture and Heritage's websites Te Ara and NZ History may be helpful. Most libraries will also have a good collection of NZ non-fiction publications including those relating to history and politics. If you are unsure, feel free to ask for help at New Zealand Wikipedians' notice board. Cheers. Andykatib (talk) 05:02, 1 October 2023 (UTC)

History and emergence of concept
I think the article would probably be improved quite a bit by having a few things:
 * A more concise definition and etymology, based on however scholars or the media define it (something like "resource management where a post-Waitangi Tribunal settlement governance entity is a stakeholder involved in decision making" - although co-governance is also used to describe Māori seats in councils now, and I think people describe Te Urewera management as co-governance, even though DOC isn't involved anymore).
 * Earliest use of the term and its origins. As far as I can tell without doing a deep Google Scholar dive, it was the Waikato Tainui Waitangi Tribunal settlement in 2009 relating to Waikato River management - anything earlier than this seems to not be using the word in the same way (i.e. anything in the mid-2000s uses the term to describe collaborations between stakeholders in general, like a collaboration between the Department of Conservation and a local council. This report in 2012 talks about Auckland Council vs. Auckland local boards as "co-governance", so the old meaning was retained for a while).
 * Co-governance prior to the term "co-governance" - dual management is something that likely pre-dates the term (there's likely scholarly papers that discuss this) - the Māori electorates probably fall under the modern definition of co-governance (I don't really want to wade through co-governance scholarly articles to find out what examples people give, but I'm sure someone will have discussed this). This report talks about Te Waihora Management Board (formed in 1991, operational from 1998), Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Strategy Group (2000), Mauao Historic Reserve Vesting Act 2008 in terms of co-governance.
 * How co-governance is so closely related to the Fifth National Government and Chris Finlayson - currently the article looks like it emerged out of nowhere in 2020, and how its origins are in Waitangi Tribunal settlement processes
 * A chronological history that discusses the things that have been described as co-governance, such as:
 * 2009: Waikato River w/ Waikato River Authority (Tainui)
 * 2010: Waipa River w/ Ngāti Maniapoto
 * 2014: Tūpuna Maunga w/ Tūpuna Maunga o Tāmaki Makaurau Authority --Prosperosity (talk) 03:16, 29 January 2024 (UTC)


 * Thanks Prosperosity! I have found this resource https://core.ac.uk/reader/35472560 - it is a law thesis called 'The Changing Face of Co-governance in New Zealand" by Rachael Caroline Harris - University of Canterbury 2015. Linking it here for ref. Pakoire (talk) 22:20, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Waikato settlement entrenched into law?
The article says, "In 2008, the Waikato-Tainui tribe (iwi) and the New Zealand Government reached a settlement over the tribe's claim to the Waikato river. This settlement was entrenched into law by the Waikato-Tainui Raupatu Claims (Waikato River) Settlement Act 2010". Is it entrenched in the sense of an entrenched clause? If not, better to change "entrenched" to something else to avoid the ambiguity. Nurg (talk) 05:12, 5 February 2024 (UTC)