The Importance of Bottom Up and Top Down Problem Solving

The guide is for people that can see a problem like that and say, hey, we can actually be leaders in showing how Alte-Rau, New Zealand can solve these problems. Catherine: There has been a shift from thinking about solutions as something that the state might do or get involved in to much more about thinking that individuals have rights and responsibilities. The idea was there is self-interest and that's all that really matters in the end and the government is not the solution, the government is the problem. Troy: One of the other important ideas that gets surfaced in the guide is drawing on Eleanor Ostrom's polycentric governance.