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Translating Ahu Moana into the Local Community: Marine Care and Near‐Shore Coastal Co‐Management on Waiheke Island, Aotearoa New Zealand

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT This article engages with near‐shore coastal co‐management in the Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana, Aotearoa New Zealand. I analysed various qualitative sources to demonstrate how Ahu Moana (ocean care areas) as a specific form of localism was translated on the side of the local community on Waiheke Island, Auckland. A specific assemblage of marine care emerged alongside a re‐conceptualisation of the local community and a remapping of the Gulf as a relational care network. The article suggests that the attempt to realise Ahu Moana shows decolonising tendencies and challenges existing power structures. However, new patterns of inclusion and exclusion also emerged.

Source: New Zealand Geographer

DOI: 10.1111/nzg.70001

Author: Marie Aschenbrenner

Institution: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Language: English

Topic: Coastal and Marine Management

Subfield: Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

Field: Environmental Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Life below water

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,900