Conflicting innovations: A problem for sustainable development of New Zealand high-country grasslands

As elsewhere in the world, agencies of local and central government in New Zealand have renewed pressure on high-country pastoral farmers to ensure that their land use is sustainable. However, government policy innovations for conservation have often cut across the path along which farmers were innovating toward sustainable development. Sustained consultation in some parts of the world has revealed that highland people were not short of practical wisdom or ideals of conservation and sustain ability. Such deep sharing of understanding and values affected an earlier New Zealand high-..