Currently New Zealand's political climate could best be described as a form of liberal democracy that allows for some form of public participation in resource management decision making. In the past there was little ...

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 ...

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 ...

This report advocates that integrated management, given the complex nature of the environment, is more preferable than a regime which is characterised by fragmentation. General issues associated with the present resource ...

This paper is an attempt to look beyond the debate concerning the role of economic analysis in the formulation of environmental policy and to consider, from a lawyers perspective, a role or potential role for economics and ...

This dissertation is a synthesis of four years university study in the policy, planning and Maori resource issues area. I wrote this because many Pakeha still have no real understanding of Maori environmental values and ...