INTEGRATING AGROECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABLE TOURISM: APPLYING GEODESIGN TO FARM MANAGEMENT IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

In Aotearoa New Zealand, Maori land is frequently owned by local communities and managed by trusts. For such arrangements on rural holdings, land managers often wish both to provide for their communities and implement agricultural management practices in a culturally responsive manner. Agroecology offers an alternative model of land management and provides opportunities for the development of visitor programmes to learn about and observe traditional practices. This paper reports on the integration of agroecology and tourism on a working farm in Te Wai Pounamu South Island, Aotearoa New Zealand. The programme successfully applied spatial analysis in a geographical information system (GIS) within an iterative geodesign framework to plan a route for visitor access across the farm, with suitable areas identified for information platforms located strategically along the way. These agritourism related features were visually communicated through maps generated by the GIS. Such visualisation makes the possible consequences of change more accessible and understandable to decision makers. As well as satisfying the need to verify the approach empirically, there are plans underway to apply GIS in this way to other similarly managed farms in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Format

Journal article

Geographic Coverage

New Zealand

Journal citation

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 26:9, 1543-1561

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Abstract included in PLA’s Research Connections article in Parks and Leisure Australia Vol 22.4 Summer 2019

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Due to copyright restrictions, only the abstract is available

Authors

Rombouts, Anneke (Author); Moore, Antoni (Author); Miller, Aubrey (Author); Hall , G. Brent (Author); Lord, Janice (Author); Gbolagun, Jeremiah (Author); van der Ven, Loes (Author); Pagan , Mariana (Author); Johnson, Marion (Author); Coutts, Sam (Author)

Source

Taylor and Francis: 2018