Wetlands – hung out to dry?

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...

Protecting biodiversity on private land

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 2

“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...

Blue horizons

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...