Sharing my new publication, available in open access, in Transnatl Enviro Law which looks at political and legal dimensions of floods and reinforces the need to look at root causes for 'transformative' climate adaptation/1 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Setting a pluralist agenda for water governance: Why power and scale matter - Macpherson - WIREs Water - Wiley Online Library wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wa…

Andrea Nightingale (UiO) & I are co-leading a PhD coursework: Emancipating knowledges and socionatures: anticolonialism and decolonisation debates, 20-24 August 2024, Oslo. The course is 5 credits; if application is successful, there's no fee. More below. uio.no/studier/emner/…

Massive shout out to co-authors and co-learners Rosa Cuppari and Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD kaustuv Raj Neupane and the rest of the author team who made this one possible through effort, intelligence, empathy, and endurance

Today the Govt is introducing its first planned cut to our world-leading & hard-won national freshwater policy that finally prioritises the health of waterbodies & people over commercial interests. A 🧵 The Bill has a boring name so could be overlooked but it's important. 1/

Three scientist mothers call for a change in how conference childcare costs are reimbursed, drawing on their personal experiences go.nature.com/3X03rLo

More excellent work from leaders in our field Dr Erin O'Donnell Cristy Clark and Rachel killean This one is going straight to the reading list. #water #rights #relationality

Do grant proposal texts matter for funding decisions? A field experiment Spoiler alert...NO! #Grants #academia

Guess it wasn’t true when agricultural sector leadership said we’re all in this together. Now we’re years down the track with climate change impacts getting worse.

Mokopuna decision-making might just be the concept of the year…..

To this point, if NZ truly wants to be independent in its foreign policy, then (re)embracing a te ao Maori perspectives would be a useful path. Here is my take on that in Newsroom: newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/22/how…

Legal enablers for ecosystem-based management - Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge sustainableseaschallenge.co.nz/tools-and-reso…

“It will not be possible for Western-trained scientists to develop truly reciprocal relations if they refuse to give up their sense of universal epistemic authority & their perceived entitlement to access Indigenous knowledges and occupy #Indigenous lands” facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/fa…

New article out with Pia Weber and Barbara Willaarts on legal pathways to protecting rivers, especially free flowing rivers, in Chile in the wake of the failed constitutional reforms linkedin.com/posts/elizabet…

For the future of global water systems we need to pay careful attention to power dynamics and scale mismatches | Global Water Forum ⁦Dr Erin O'Donnell⁩ ⁦Cristy Clark⁩ ⁦Rosa Cuppari⁩ ⁦Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD⁩ ⁦rational_geographic⁩ globalwaterforum.org/2024/07/11/for…

“… - and I want to be very clear - they do not speak for all non-Māori in Aotearoa.” Correct. Seymour is grossly mistaken if he thinks he speaks for all non-Māori, as he will learn 'Enough is enough' - Chris Hipkins blasts government over Māori policies rnz.co.nz/news/political…

And we have lift off! Blue Carbon Futures in Aotearoa New Zealand: Law, Climate, Resilience Launches today. Royal Society Te Apārangi Cristy Clark Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, PhD Julia Dehm Dr Erin O'Donnell

Kia ora Aussies If someone puts Tēna koe before your name in a letter it means Dear Aotearoa New Zealand means New Zealand Signing off with Nāku noa nā means Yours sincerely. Congratulations! You now know more than ⁦Paul Goldsmith⁩ 1news.co.nz/2024/08/06/min…

Let's be as visible as possible as we stand together against the destructive double-speak of the Govt on Te Tiriti. ActionStation has put up this great site with resources, including posters, stickers & placards. #TogetherIsBetter #ToitūTeTiriti togetherfortetiriti.nz

Scale‐sensitive marine law and policy design: Towards ecosystem‐based management across spatial and temporal scales - Macpherson - 2024 - WIREs Energy and Environment - Wiley Online Library wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/we…