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⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa

⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa #2: Defining a small country

Just because it’s smaller doesn’t mean it’s any less complex

Ben Reid
Jun 12
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Kia ora, hope you’ve enjoyed a relaxing weekend!

Welcome to the next instalment of the book I’m writing during 2022, ⏩Fast Forward Aotearoa. I hope you enjoy reading - and please feel free to add feedback in the comments section below.

Today’s piece goes back to fundamentals: what are the various lenses we can use to define “Aotearoa” in 2022?

(Note: as always, these posts are definitely the “first draft” hot off the keyboard…so expect the occasional typo, incomplete references/footnotes, slightly awkward phrasing and other paras which clearly need an edit…but I hope most of it makes sense! 😇) .

Chapter 2: Small country, big challenges, big opportunities

Part 1: Defining a small country

“Just because it’s smaller doesn’t mean it’s any less complex”

Aotearoa from space. Source: modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2018), processed by ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

How can we define “Aotearoa” in 2022?

To start with, let’s collect together some lenses, facts, statistics and projections to help frame the s…

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