Te Tirohanga o Ngā Tohu: Taranaki Climate Resilience Tool Development

Project summary

Te Tirohanga o Ngā Tohu: Taranaki Climate Resilience Tool Development is a project that developed a climate change tool based on iwi priorities, values and environmental tohu identified by Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Tama and Ngāti Maru by undertaking the following actions.

1. Summarising Māori ways of caring for their local taiao (environment).
2. Identifying local environmental tohu with hapū/iwi.
3. Developing a kaupapa Māori tool that supports understanding the local environment and tohu, under a changing climate.
4. Illustrating how process-based modelling alongside a kaupapa Māori based tool can

help inform biodiversity management, under a changing climate.

This project embraces a Kaupapa Māori methodology in partnership with local iwi, and is underpinned by Māori philosophy and principles, centres the validity and legitimacy of a Māori world view, and seeks to produce useful and transformative research.

A webpage version of this summary can be found here.