Gail Tewaru Tipa (born 1959) is a New Zealand resource management planner, and has worked in the environmental sector for thirty years. In 2021 Tipa was appointed an Officer of the

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for services to Māori and environmental management.

Career

Tipa is Māori, and affiliates to Kāi Tahu. Tipa has Bachelor of Arts, and a Master's degree in resource and regional planning. She completed a

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titled ''Indigenous communities and the co-management of natural resources: the case of New Zealand freshwater management'' at the

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in 2003. She trained as a teacher initially, and then worked for the

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, and then opened an environmental research and management consultancy. Tipa worked on the Kāi Tahu claim and settlement in the 1990s and has been involved in Kāi Tahu governance. Tipa is particularly concerned with freshwater and fisheries management. Tipa has developed new tools to improve the participation of Māori in freshwater management, including the Cultural Health Index and the Cultural Flow Assessment method. Tipa is part of the

Ngā Pae o Te Māramatanga Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga (NPM) is New Zealand's Māori Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE). It was established in 2002 and is hosted by the University of Auckland with 21 research partners and is funded, like other CoRE's, by the Tertiary E ...

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, and was a member of the inaugural governance group of the New Zealand's Biological Heritage, Ngā Koiora Tuku Iho National Science Challenge. Her work with Ngā Pae was focused on researching the links between environmental integrity and health and wellbeing of Indigenous communities.

Honours and awards

In the

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Tipa was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori and environmental management.

Selected publications

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References

External links

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