Year: 2026
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This chapter focuses on the critical issue of the right of more-than-human species to thrive in the context of increasingly catastrophic effects of anthropogenic climate change. The vehicle is the challenges to transformative governance and the implications that accrue to indigenous biodiversity. The context is the catastrophic climatic events that occurred in the South Pacific island nation of Aotearoa New Zealand in early 2023 with devastating consequences. Attention is drawn to the power of political upheavals in climate obstructionism and some inherent dangers in evoking transformative governance as a response to the crisis of extinction. It argues that nothing less than deep systemic transformation underpinned by an ontology of being that is committed to the ethics of deep interrelationship, the importance of place and protection of the ability of all species to thrive will provide a pathway for maximizing the protection, regeneration, and survival of species into the future.
Author: Makere Stewart-Harawira
Language: English
Subfield: Nature and Landscape Conservation
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W7171640571