Towards a new planning paradigm? Reflections on New Zealand's Resource Management Act

Memon, P. A.; Gleeson, Brendan

doi:10.1068/b220109

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“…1997). However, critics argue that these reforms also eroded institutional memory, breaking down linkages of cooperation and trust between public organizations with experience in addressing complex environmental problems (Memon andGlesson 1995, Lewis 2004). …”

Section: New Zealandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Social Contracts: Building Resilience in a Changing Climate

O’Brien¹,

Hayward²,

Berkes³

2009

E&S

186

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ABSTRACT. Social contracts play an important role in defining the reciprocal rights, obligations, and responsibilities between states and citizens. Climate change is creating new challenges for both states and citizens, inevitably forcing a rethinking of existing and evolving social contracts. In particular, the social arrangements that enhance the well-being and security of both present and future generations are likely to undergo dramatic transformations in response to ecosystem changes, more extreme weather events, and the consequences of social-ecological changes in distant locations. The types of social contracts that evolve in the face of a changing climate will have considerable implications for adaptation policies and processes. We consider how a resilience approach can contribute to new social contracts in the face of uncertainty and change. Examples from Norway, New Zealand, and Canada show how resilience thinking provides a new way of looking at social contracts, emphasizing the dynamics, links, and complexity of coupled socialecological systems. Resilience thinking provides valuable insights on the characteristics of a new social contract, and social contract theory provides some insights on creating resilience and human security in a warming world.

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Section: New Zealandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rethinking Social Contracts: Building Resilience in a Changing Climate

O’Brien¹,

Hayward²,

Berkes³

2009

E&S

186

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“…These effects must be assessed prior to a development being permitted and the assessments must include consultation with various interests, particularly in relation to M aori rights. An explicit commitment to sustainable management was enshrined in the RMA and this led to international interest in the Act (see Memon and Gleeson 1995).…”

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Clean and green? A governance analysis of waste management in New Zealand

Davies

2009

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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The moniker of 'clean and green' has been popularly applied to New Zealand since the 1980s. Following the 1991 Resource Management Act, New Zealand was also heralded as a progressive nation in terms of its environmental policy. While both the greenness and progressiveness have subsequently been questioned, the formation, implementation and impact of environmental management has rarely been analysed from an explicit governance perspective. Environmental governance analyses are useful because they permit attention to the multitude of actors operating at a range of scales. In response, this paper examines one significant sector of environmental management in New Zealand - waste. Initially key policies and programmes shaping the waste landscape are considered, then consideration is given to the roles that public, private and civil society sectors play in forming and reforming that landscape. Finally, the performance of governing actors and the practice of governance are brought together in a critical appraisal of waste governance outcomes.waste management, sustainable development, governance, New Zealand, Resource Management Act,

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“…The IP Act incorporates considerable discretionary powers, since it is constructed from the RMA model which reflects, amongst other things, the outcome of discretion utilised in the British approach (Robertson 1996;Memon & Gleeson 1995) and reinforces Houston's laissezfaire strategy (Peiser 1984). On the wide discretionary powers given planners and administrators in the IP Act, Fogg (1997 p15) observes that: "The Royal Town Planning Institute is using the 50th anniversary of the 1947 Act as a reason for review.…”

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Reforming the Queensland Land-Use Planning Legislation

Moon

1998

Australian Planner

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Towards a new planning paradigm? Reflections on New Zealand's Resource Management Act

Cited by 51 publications

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Rethinking Social Contracts: Building Resilience in a Changing Climate

Rethinking Social Contracts: Building Resilience in a Changing Climate

Clean and green? A governance analysis of waste management in New Zealand

Reforming the Queensland Land-Use Planning Legislation

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