Kathryn K Davies

Tufts University | Tufts · Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning

The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a heuristic tool for co-creating positive futures for nature and people. It seeks to open up a diversity of futures through mainly three value perspectives on nature – Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, and Nature as Culture. This paper describes how the NFF can be applied in modelling to support decision-m...

The Māori marine economy is a view of the oceans and its economic activity, value, and impact that comes from a place of kinship and reciprocity. In a te ao Māori world view, the oceans are an ancestral being – Tangaroa, god of the seas, its currents and its inhabitants – to whom people have kinship rights and obligations and on whom we depend for...

The Nature Futures Framework (NFF) is a heuristic tool for co-creating positive futures for nature and people. It seeks to open up a diversity of futures through mainly three value perspectives on nature – Nature for Nature, Nature for Society, Nature as Culture. In this paper, we describe how the NFF can be applied in modelling to support policy....

Multistakeholder participatory processes are essential decision-making elements in contemporary contested marine spaces. Such processes have long time horizons, diverse interests, and complex objectives. Their complex and evolving nature make it difficult for participatory process proponents and participants to adequately plan their processes and t...

Societal values are crucial for the prioritisation of activities within the marine environment and are therefore fundamental to successfully implementing Ecosystem Based Management (EBM) in New Zealand (NZ). Documenting Social Values (Mauri Moana) is a research project within the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge (NSC) that is exploring h...

Scientists have repeatedly argued that transformative, multiscale global scenarios are needed as tools in the quest to halt the decline of biodiversity and achieve sustainability goals. As a first step towards achieving this, the researchers who participated in the scenarios and models expert group of the Intergovernmental Science‐Policy Platform o...

Scientists have repeatedly argued that transformative, multiscale global scenarios are needed as tools in the quest to halt the decline of biodiversity and achieve sustainability goals. As a first step towards achieving this, the Expert Group on Scenarios and Models of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Serv...

Managing the cumulative effects (CE) that arise from human and natural stressors is one of the most urgent and complex problems facing coastal and marine decision makers today. In the absence of effective processes, models, and political will, decision-makers struggle to implement management strategies that effectively tackle cumulative effects. Em...

This special issue of the Resource Management Journal highlights key findings and recommendations associated with a two-year research project called “Navigating the implementation impasse: enabling interagency collaboration on cumulative effects”; this project explored elements that underpin cumulative effects (CE) management in Aotearoa New Zealan...

In this paper, we review the different types of uncertainties that may be important for cumulative effects management. We then present how practitioners in Aotearoa New Zealand (Aotearoa NZ) view uncertainty based on interviews and workshops. We also present their suggestions for incorporating uncertainty into CE management using the Aotearoa Cumul...

There is a general recognition that collaboration between key institutes and stakeholders is needed to produce effective CE governance and management; this process requires the negotiated development of collective aspirations and principles. This paper describes the results of a collaborative workshop where a diverse group of participants (ie 58 ex...

Cumulative effects management requires a platform of holistic systems-based thinking that integrates cross-scale interactions and combines the numerous synergistic and antagonistic human-environmental impacts. Various approaches facilitate systems-based thinking, though these tactics are often in conflict with current sector-based management and st...

The Aotearoa Cumulative Effects (ACE) framework was developed to bring together the diverse themes required for effective cumulative effects (CE) management. Several of these key themes are individually detailed in papers included in this special issue. Here, we demonstrate how these key themes can be brought together through a collaborative proces...

Developing equitable marine management systems that recognise Indigenous worldviews, values, and practices, alongside international initiatives such as Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) are paramount in countries which aim to recognise Indigenous rights. This is the case for New Zealand (NZ) where Indigenous-Maori rights to partner with the Governme...

The workshop entitled ‘From visions to scenarios for nature and nature’s contributions to people for the 21st century’ was organized by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) expert group on scenarios and models and its technical support unit, and hosted by the NF-UBC Nereus Program, the Peter Wall Institute f...

This report provides a review of literature on the Māori marine economy. The report begins by defining ‘blue economy’ and what is meant by an Indigenous blue economy. Next, it outlines the Māori worldview in order to delineate the full parameters of an Indigenous blue economy. It then introduces the traditional Māori marine economy before contact a...

Coastal nations and islands have featured a participatory turn this century directed to resolving conflicts in multi-use/user marine spaces. Yet, few conceptual and empirical studies focus on participation as an institutional form to engage with the pressures of diverse and contesting uses and user interests in marine environments. These spaces are...

E-print: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2hvykg7ZEDvwpz444yC4/full?target=10.1080/04353684.2019.1568201 We document and interrogate our collective experimentation with disruptive academic practices as early- and mid-career women researchers in Aotearoa New Zealand. We grapple with our disruptions and attempted interventions to do academic work...

The concept of ecosystem services has gained traction as a means of linking societal benefits to the underlying ecology and functioning of ecosystems, and is now frequently included in decision-making and legislation. Moving the ecosystem service concept from theory into practice is now crucial. However, advancements in this area of research differ...

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a critical element of fisheries management and biodiversity conservation strategies. However, MPA planning is a complex undertaking that requires consideration of ecological and other knowledge, including indigenous knowledge, as well as balancing social, cultural, and economic interests. Engaging a range of stakeh...

Cumulative effects in the marine environment increase the risk of environmental, economic or social collapse because the combined effects of new and existing marine industries, climate change and other stressors are often not accounted for in the determination of environmental capacity. Ecosystem-based management and the development of tools that t...

What is IPBES? IPBES—the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services—was established in 2012 to serve a role linking the science and knowledge about nature and nature’s benefits to people with policy and decision-making. IPBES has many expert groups, including one that focusses on Scenarios and Models of Biodiversity of Ecosy...

Collectively authored paper presented in the Recovering the Radical Potential of a Feminist Ethic of Care: Exploring Practices of 'Caring With' session

New Zealand’s national guidance on planning and decision-making, related to coastal hazard risks and climate change adaptation has been extensively updated. Since the last edition of the national guidance in 2008, there have been considerable advances in: • attribution of sea-level rise (SLR) and projections; • development of adaptive planning th...

The purpose of the workshop was to co-produce knowledge on equity and inclusion at academic meetings, such as conferences, symposiums and workshops. Members of various equity groups in the Faculty of Science, The University of Auckland were invited to participate with the aim of hosting a conversation about how we can better accommodate the needs o...

Key findings Regional, sub-regional and national similarities and differences currently exist in the capacity for scenario development and modelling for biodiversity and ecosystem services. Human resources and the technical skills required for biodiversity and ecosystem services scenario development and modelling are not evenly spread across region...

E-print: https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2hvykg7ZEDvwpz444yC4/full?target=10.1080/04353684.2019.1568201

The preoccupation with the risks, uncertainties and anxieties that characterise the Anthropocene drives much of the research currently undertaken to address wicked problems. In the context of New Zealand, the framing of the Sustainable Seas Ko ngā moana whakauka National Science Challenge around the concept of ecosystem-based management aims to pro...

Ecosystem service approaches are increasingly utilised in coastal areas, often as part of an ecosystem-based management or adaptive governance framework that aims to address complex coastal problems. Ecosystem services are appealing in this context because they link human well-being to the functioning of ecosystems, and provide a common language fo...

Ecosystem service approaches are increasingly utilised in coastal areas, often as part of an ecosystem based management or adaptive governance framework that aims to address complex coastal problems. Ecosystem services are appealing in this context because they link human well-being to the functioning of ecosystems, and provide a common language fo...

Biodiversity has many key roles in ecosystems, and many elements of biodiversity support fish species and therefore also fisheries. At the same time, cooperation fisheries also often affect seabed biodiversity. Furthermore, fisheries may also change the composition of fish communities, and we illustrate why changes in fish communities can matter to...

Complex problems often result from the multiple interactions between human activities and ecosystems. The interconnected nature of ecological and social systems should be considered if these “wicked problems” are to be addressed. Ecosystem service approaches provide an opportunity to link ecosystem function with social values, but in practice the e...