Implementing Sustainability: The New Zealand Experience
New Zealand's Resource Management Act was hailed as a radical new approach to planning; the first to attempt to put environmental concerns ahead of social and economic issues. This book examines the lessons that can be learned from this groundbreaking legislation. It offers a pra... read full description below.
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| Interest Age |
All ages |
| Reading Age |
All ages |
| Library of Congress |
New Zealand, Conservation of natural resources - Law and legislation - New Zealand, Regional planning - Law and legislation - New Zealand |
| NBS Text |
Environment & Planning |
| ONIX Text |
Professional and scholarly |
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| Number of Pages |
248 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 156mm
Height: 234mm
Spine: 13mm |
| Weight |
430g |
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| Dewey Code |
307.1 |
| Catalogue Code |
144996 |
Description of this Book
New Zealand's Resource Management Act was hailed as a radical new approach to planning; the first to attempt to put environmental concerns ahead of social and economic issues. This book examines the lessons that can be learned from this groundbreaking legislation. It offers a practitioner's insight into the RMA, those strategies and techniques that have proved successful, and spells out the lessons that can be applied to planning systems of other countries.
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Author's Bio
Caroline L. Miller is a senior lecturer in the Resource and Environmental Planning Programme at Massey University in Palmerston North where her teaching focuses on planning practice. She was a planning practitioner for some 15 years and is a Councillor of the New Zealand Planning Institute from which she received a Distinguished Service Award in 2007.
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