NZ’s resource management rules have been rewritten. What happens after the election?

By Steve Urlich, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Hamish Rennie, Associate Professor in Planning and Environmental Management, Lincoln University, New Zealand

As each new environmental assessment shows, the impacts on New Zealand’s natural and urban areas are only compounding.

The government’s most recent national snapshot describes polluted rivers and coastal waters, declining biodiversity, poor air quality in some communities and greenhouse gas emissions that remain high by international standards.

Increasingly…

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