Maria Bargh (Te Arawa, Ngati Awa) is an associate professor in Maori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. She researches and teaches in the areas of Maori politics and Maori resource management. She is co-lead of the governance and policy research team for the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge and recipient of the Royal Society 2020 Te Puawaitanga Research Excellence Award. Julie L MacArthur is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Reimagining Capitalism at Royal Roads University. She specialises in environmental political economy, energy democracy, and participatory policy-making. Julie is the author of Empowering Electricity: Co-operatives, Sustainability, and Power Sector Reform in Canada (UBC Press, 2016), alongside a wide range of articles and chapters on community energy, sustainable community development, gendered employment in energy industries, environmental populism, and Green New Deal policies. She chairs the Women & Inclusivity in Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) network, and is a past chair of the New Zealand Environmental Politics and Policy Network.

Part One: Introduction 1 Te Turanga Tuatahi - Our Foundation (Julie L MacArthur and Maria Bargh) 2 Measuring and Meaning: The State of the Environment (David Hall) How to Make a Submission (Will Dreyer) Part Two: Theories and Perspectives 3 Environmental Ideas in Aotearoa (Margaret Mutu) 4 Toitu te Whenua: Land, Peoples and Environmental Policy 1840 to 1980 (Janine Hayward) 5 Theorising Environmental Politics (Elisabeth Ellis) 6 Theorising Environmental Policy (Valentina Dinica) How to Write a Policy Brief (Briony Bennett) Part Three: Institutions and Actors 7 Contemporary Environmental Institutions and Policy-making (Nicola Wheen) 8 Cities and Urban Planning (Dory Reeves) 9 Regenerative Economie (Rod Oram) 10 Social Movements and the Environment (Priya Kurian, Raven Cretney, Debashish Munshi and Sandra L. Morrison) 11 Green Parties and Greening Party Politics (Geoffrey Ford ) How to Write a Press Release (Ellen Tapsell) Part Four: Environmental Issues and Challenges 12 Climate Policy (Bronwyn Hayward) 13 Energy Politics and Policy (Julie L MacArthur and Janet Stephenson) 14 Te Tai Ao and 'Biodiversity' (Maria Bargh and Tame Malcolm) 15 Imperialism and Systems of Stuff (Tina Ngata) 16 Farming and the Environment: The Long Legacies of Colonisation (Hugh Campbell) 17 Mining: When You are in a Hole, Stop Digging (Catherine Delahunty) 18 Te Mana o te Wai: The Modern Politics of Freshwater (Jacinta Ruru) How to Organise a Protest (Sophie Handford) Part Five: Conclusion 19 Matiro Whakamua: Looking Over the Horizon (Julie L MacArthur and Maria Bargh)