Dan C H Hikuroa

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Indigenous knowledge offers solutions, but its use must be based on meaningful collaboration with Indigenous communities

Tara McAllister, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Cate Macinnis-Ng, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, and Dan C H Hikuroa, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

One key difference between kaitiakitanga and conservation is that the former considers people as part of the environment, while the latter manages nature as if people were separate from it.
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Why we should release New Zealand’s strangled rivers to lessen the impact of future floods

Gary John Brierley, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Dan C H Hikuroa, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Heide Friedrich, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Ian Christopher Fuller, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University; James Brasington, University of Canterbury; Jo Hoyle, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA); Jon Tunnicliffe, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Kristiann Allen, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau, and Richard Measures, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

Given climate change predictions of more extreme floods in New Zealand, it’s time to change management practices to work with a river, allowing it room to move and its channels to adjust.
A wall relief from the British Museum shows three scribes amid a military campaign of the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III, in Babylonia (Iraq). WikiCommons

3 reasons to study science communication beyond the West

Lindy Orthia, Australian National University; Dan C H Hikuroa, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau; Ehsan Nabavi, Australian National University; Francesca Rochberg, University of California, Berkeley, and Paula DeVos, San Diego State University

All cultures have communicated their knowledge in diverse and marvellous ways throughout time. Failing to see the significance of this is racist and lazy.

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