He Uiui Aromatawai Tūraru: Guidance for ‘risky’ and uncertain resource use decision‐making in Aotearoa

Abstract

Recent environmental events in land, coastal and ocean domains in Aotearoa have raised serious questions about risks and uncertainties connected with natural resource decision‐making at all levels and in all places. Evidence from consenting processes associated with proposed investments in seabed mining of Chatham Rock Phosphate and sub‐division development at Okura, Auckland City, illustrate the presence and nature of three key but often invisible influences – personal positionalities, discipline assumptions and worldviews – affecting decision processes. Readers are invited to go on a ‘risk journey’, of discovery, to help develop their capabilities to engage in investment decision‐making processes.