Caroline L Miller

Implementing Sustainability

The New Zealand Experience

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Produktbeschreibung

New Zealand¿s Resource Management Act was the first and most extensive attempt to institute sustainability at a national level, covering all resources from land to water. This book provides a comprehensive account of the challenges of implementing sustainability. It offers a practitioner¿s insight into the RMA and spells out the lessons that can be applied to planning systems of other countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780415495509
• ISBN-10: 0415495504
• Artikelnr.: 30624648

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Setting the Scene 2. Implementing Sustainability by
Legislation - Institutions and Processes 3. Integrated Management and
Regional Planning - Water, Air and Land 4. Urban Planning and the Built
Environment 5. Energy and Infrastructure 6. Tangata Whenua and the Resource
Management Act 7. The Profession, the Politicians and the Public 8.
Conclusions - The Lessons from New Zealand