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Sustainable management: how does this concept affect forestry in New Zealand?
(Lincoln University, 1995)
The focus of this study is on sustainable management, the axle of the Resource Management Act 1991, and how this concept will affect the effects on the environment from New Zealand forests and related forestry operations.
It ...
Iwi participation under the Resource Management Act 1991: a framework for a politics of difference?
(Lincoln University, 2000)
The Treaty of Waitangi promised a partnership between iwi and the Crown in 1840. In practice, under the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), iwi tends to be restricted to consultation rather than participation based on the ...
The last straw? A discussion of cumulative effects assessment and its role in environmental decision making
(Lincoln University, 1997)
The aim of this investigation was to identify and discuss the issues relating to cumulative effects assessment and its role in decision making. The report centres around four main research questions: What is cumulative ...
Obstacles to public participation evaluation : a case study of the Canterbury Regional Council
(Lincoln University, 1995)
The main aim of this report is to identify potential obstacles to public participation evaluation
in Aotearoa / New Zealand, under the Resource Management Act 1991(RMA), in the 1990s.
Within this aim, the report has five ...
The legal system as a mechanism for making environmental policy comprehensive and ecologically rational
(Lincoln University, 1991)
This study considers the strengths and weaknesses of the legal system as a mechanism for making environmental policy more comprehensive and ecologically rational. The approach taken is to examine the way in which ideologies ...
A solution to pollution: integrated pollution control under the Resource Management Act (1991)
(Lincoln University, 1993)
It is accepted that integrated pollution control is essential for the amelioration of pollution problems. The pollution situation in New Zealand has not been well addressed by past legislation as it has been controlled by ...
Evaluating RMA performance : the role of Section 35(2) monitoring
(Lincoln University, 1997)
Since the Resource Management Act (RMA) was enacted in 1991, there has been public concern that it is not meeting its goal (the sustainable management of natural and physical resources, Section 5). One possible reason for ...
Evolution of the relationship between tangata whenua, the Crown and resource management
(Lincoln University, 1993)
This paper outlines the relationship between tangata whenua and the Crown to natural resources as envisaged by the Treaty of Waitangi 1840 and the Resource Management Act (RMA) 1991. The RMA has been hailed as a progressive ...
Biological diversity and the Resource Management Act 1991 : toward the implementation of the conservation and sustainable use objectives of the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity
(Lincoln University, 1996)
The Convention on Biological Diversity arose from the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development as a response to global concern over the rapid degradation of the earth's biodiversity. Because New Zealand ...
Pre-application consultation within the resource consent process : public participation within the Resource Management Act 1991
(Lincoln University, 1999)
This report was prepared in partial fulfilment of the Master of Science (Resource Management) degree, for the Environmental Management and Design Division within Lincoln University. The research is principally aimed towards ...