Continuity and change in national riskscapes: a New Zealand perspective on the challenges for climate governance theory and practice
This paper uses riskscapes as a lens to analyse how New Zealand has perceived and mediated natural hazard and climate risks over time. Climate change indeed challenges how policy agents imagine and seek to govern risks in space and time. The authors identify five different national riskscapes using a historical timeline, which have changed as global risks cascade into national and sub-national governance.
The results show that while there has been a major effort to reflect the dynamic and systemic language of risk theory in national policy, a significant challenge remains to develop appropriate governance and implementation strategies and to shift from long-held ways of doing and knowing.