Rate My Professor Tui Warmenhoven

Warmenhoven's career history includes long-term involvement since 1998 in partnerships between Ngāti Porou and Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, notably the FRST-funded Waiapu project focused on Māori community goals for enhancing ecosystem health and the subsequent Waiapu River Catchment restoration integrating science and mātauranga Māori. She has contributed to key initiatives like the Erosion Control Funding Programme, analyzing policy design lessons through adaptive governance lenses and factors influencing afforestation adoption. Recent projects include the Deep South Challenge case study on farming and forestry in Te Tairāwhiti, addressing climate-driven storms and erosion by advocating sustainable land use shifts; climate-resilient forestry and horticulture efforts; and a 2025 Health Research Council-funded wānanga titled 'Restoring intergenerational knowledge of kai' in Te Tairāwhiti to bolster food security, cultural wellbeing, and health outcomes amid taiao degradation. Her major publications feature 'Exploring Adaptive Governance for Indigenous Peoples: Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand’s Erosion Control Funding Programme' (2019), 'Sustainable livelihoods approaches to inform government-local partnerships and decision-making in vulnerable environments' (2019), 'Policy design lessons from the Erosion Control Funding Programme - afforestation through an adaptive governance lens' (2019), 'An ecosystem services framework to evaluate indigenous and local peoples’ connections with nature' (2018), 'Forest scholars empowering communities: A case study from the East Coast of New Zealand' (2017), and 'Low Enthalpy Geothermal Energy Resources for Rural Māori Communities–Te Puia Springs, East Coast, North Island New Zealand' (2010). Through these contributions, she has advanced community-based research models fostering iwi-government partnerships for catchment management and climate adaptation.