Blog – Blue Horizons

Looking ahead to teaching about common law remedies and economic theory in an environmental context in Week 7, and teaching about sustainability in Week 8, there have been a number of recent reports about economic growth from learned societies in different...

The NZ Supreme Court decisions in the King Salmon cases were released on Thursday 17 April. The cases involved appeals against plan changes and resource consent applications for 9 marine farming sites in the Marlborough Sounds. Two sites were challenged by EDS and...

Following on from lecturing about biodiversity and climate change, the Royal Geographic Society magazine Geographical (April 2014) 37-43 includes a special feature on wetlands "Hung out to dry" that emphasises the importance of wetlands as one of the key global tools...

Lecturing this week about protecting biodiversity on private land and property rights, the following positing by Dan Farber focusing on environmental risk and government action and referencing the work of Richard Epstein who contributed to the New Zealand property...

“Blue Horizons” published in the Resource Management Journal (August 2011 RMJ pp21-24) offered some preliminary views on further improvements in practice under the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) against the background of the proposed RMA Phase II reforms and the...

The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) has recently consulted on RMA Phase II reforms, and officials are now considering and refining the policy options. They build on the government’s focus of simplifying and streamlining process under the Resource Management Act...