An alternative to regulatory control of farm management

Abstract

This paper considers: 1. The failure of regulatory management in the farming sector looking specifically at: Irrigation schemes, Pest Control, 1948 Land Act, Water rights administration. 2. Whether the Resource Management Act is regulatory or non-regulatory. 3. How to achieve non-regulatory farm management under the Resource Management Act. 4. Some brief observations of mine as to whether Regional Councils or unitary authorities are the preferred authority to carry out the rural resource management functions under the Resource Management Act. 5. The economic implications of regulatory control in farm management.