David Young

David Young works as a professional writer in the field of history and the environment - for film, print media and oral history. He is published widely in essays, articles, magazines and books. 

David lives in New Zealand, writing and lecturing on sustainability, environmental management and history.

A Stout Research Fellowship (Victoria University, Wellington) resulted in Woven by Water and he received a Creative New Zealand-Fulbright residency at the University of Hawaii, 2008.

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History and conservation form the core of his work. David's books include:

• Rivers                                    New Zealand's Shared Legacy  
• Coast                                     A novel connecting David's lifelong fascination with water, landscape & memory   

• Keeper of the Long View     A history of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment   
• Whio                                       Saving the endangered blue duck 
  
• Our Islands Our Selves        A history of conservation in New Zealand   
  
• Matahina                               Power in the Land  
  
• Values as law                        The history and efficacy of the Resource Management Act   
  
• Woven by Water                   Histories from the Whanganui River
  
• Faces of the River 

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