The Waitaki Valley: Its people and resources as depicted in 40 years Research Completed
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The Waitaki Valley: Its people and resources as depicted in 40 years
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Maynard, L., Perkins, C. & Taylor, N.
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Taylor Baines & Associates Ltd
Publication Year
2009
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Taylor Baines & Associates Ltd
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Abstract
This bibliography comprises literature on the social, economic and land use changes arising from natural resource development in the Waitaki Valley, a region on the borders of North Otago and South Canterbury on the east of the South Island of New Zealand, and which extends from the mountain highlands to the coastal plains. The bibliography includes material from a variety of sources including: theses and dissertations, conference papers, refereed journal articles, books, book chapters, edited books, and government, consultancy and university reports. The references focus on social issues in the Waitaki Valley related to natural resource use such as, the hydro-electric mpower, tourism, irrigation, and the relatively recent growth of dairy farming on land once exclusively used for pastoral (sheep and beef) farming. As a result of these developments the Waitaki Valley has been an important site for social, economic, environmental and resource management research.
A great deal of the material reviewed records various aspects of the social and ecological conditions of the Waitaki Valley. Researchers have been interested in studying the area because it has experienced a unique and high level of natural resource development. Some authors wrote their material to capture for posterity the significance of changes in the Valley; for themselves as local authors, for local communities and for the country. Some research was partly driven by resource management and planning to help in local and regional decision-making. Some references have a historical focus. Having done an initial review of a wider literature set, a choice was then made to annotate a smaller sub-set of that literature focusing particularly on material documenting the social issues related to natural resource development in the Waitaki Valley. Not surprisingly, as the overall sample of literature available to us was piecemeal, ad-hoc, and fragmented, so too is the literature we have annotated. Our purpose in this introductory essay is to try and ‘connect the dots’ of the literature we have reviewed and listed in the annotated bibliography that follows. The objective of this review is to lay the ground work for developing a longitudinal, catchment-wide approach to understanding the Valley from a social perspective; although of necessity a good deal of emphasis is placed at this stage on the experience of specific parts of the Waitaki Valley.
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Waitaki Valley, Social science, History
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