water bodies, and a degradation of renewable forest,
fish, fowl and animal resources – under all manner of
freehold, cognatic and state patterns of resource own-
ership. This adds argument to the case for imposing
public controls over renewable resource-using actions.
Movements in this direction by water catchment
authorities, and by means of Landcare principles on
freehold farms, are encouraging. Marketing the clean
purity of diverse products from a toxin-free and genet-
ically sound renewable resource base, managed
without excessive applications of fertilizers herbicides
fungicides and pesticides, is the ‘clever’ approach.
Green marketing, admitting only to verified chemical
interventions, adds to longer-term economic viability
and environmental wellbeing. With renewable
resources, particularly fresh water flows and soils, but
also for indigenous flora and fauna, the societal ideal is
to pass these on to future generations in a condition
which will enable them, in turn, to maintain a level of
productiveness or output equal to that enjoyed at
present. The ‘sustainable’ contention in relation to
renewable resources is that from any given point in
time onward, the renewable soil, water and air
resources, along with indigenous flora and fauna, receive cyclic respect, are no
further depleted or impaired, and are restored to ecological diversity and purity.
Summary stricture: Coerce the restoration of degraded renewable resources; and guide the uptake
from and replenishment of renewable resources ‘sustainably’ and ‘indefinitely’.
Preservation of cultural-heritage and natural-heritage
resources in the neomodernist way (see again box
3.2 earlier in this chapter) gets to the heart and
soul of human ‘being’. Paradoxically, settler society
administrations have previously done a good job
at keeping up their birth-of-nation buildings, all
the while flaying the natural forests and slaugh-
tering the native fauna. Nowadays the situation is
mostly reversed, with an often wilful destruction
of the building heritage, yet a separate but consid-
erable reverence for the remaining indigenous
forest and avian life forms! The neomodern call is
for a preservation, for all future time, of the cultural andnatural heritage, align-
ing and identifying with tourist pocketbooks, and the toxin-free demands of vari-
etal lifestyles. The heritage resources policy set includes both a nurturing of the
well-understood ‘cultural heritage’ along with a preservation of ‘natural heritage’
resources.
Charter for Conservation with Development 105New Zealand (population close to
4 m) claims the earth’s fourth largest
EEZ, and through a stuttering fish
management quota scheme is set to
increase the annual catch of most
commercial species.Cultural heritage: former Post Office