Water pressure: irrigation, governance and land use intensification in Maungatapere, New Zealand

Article Abstract:

The shift of a government irrigation scheme to a private water-purchasing enterprise in New Zealand is examined. The scheme, launched in the rural region of Maungatapere, is demonstrated to be successful not as an assisted agricultural plan but only as a pay-for-use plan, reflecting the government's original intent to shift policies toward market-oriented practices.

Irrigation (Agriculture), Planning, Privatization, Privatization (Business), Water supply, Irrigation

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Cannabis highs and lows: sustaining and dislocating rural communities in Northland, New Zealand

Article Abstract:

The social and economic factors of illegal cannabis production in Northland, New Zealand, are examined. Topics include and analysis of the production process, government policy toward cannabis, and its role in the agricultural economy.

Agricultural industry, Cannabis, Hamamelidae

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Rights of access to land for outdoor recreation in New Zealand dilemmas concerning justice and equity

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The author examines the history and use of Maori land right compromises and land reform that make-up today's use of outdoor land as recreation.

Research, Usage, Laws, regulations and rules, History, Land reform, Outdoor recreation, Maori law, Land settlement

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