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New Zealand's Resource Management Act: Guiding Light or Out of Date?
When it was enacted in 1991, New Zealand's Resource Management Act was hailed as world-leading. It integrated decision-making around many topics — land use planning, air quality, freshwater, coastal-marine issues, landscape protection, and many others. All of this happened under what was then still a normatively progressive umbrella of "sustainable management". Yet the RMA was the product of a particular set of social, economic, political and environmental circumstances. Since 1991, some of those things have changed.
Oct 17, 2017 Centre for the Law and the Environment Assistant