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    • Issue #16 SIA for rural resilience and wellbeing >
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      • The drivers and agents of on-farm change in Aotearoa New Zealand
      • Social-ecological assessment for remote and island communities
      • The Impact of Substandard Rural Housing on Resilience and Wellbeing in Te Tai Tokerau
      • Success factors for planning regeneration in rural areas
    • Issue #15 Economic methods and Impact Assessment >
      • Economic methods in impact assessment: an introduction
      • The Nature of Economic Analysis for Resource Management
      • The State-of-the-Art and Prospects: Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Environmental Impact Assessment
      • Economic impact assessment and regional development: reflections on Queensland mining impacts
      • Fonterra’s policy on economic incentives for promoting sustainable farming practices
    • Issue #14 Impact assessment for infrastructure development >
      • Impact assessment for infrastructure development - an introduction
      • Place Matters: The importance of geographic assessment of areas of influence in understanding the social effects of large-scale transport investment in Wellington
      • Unplanned Consequences? New Zealand's experiment with urban (un)planning and infrastructure implications
      • Reflections on infrastructure, Town and Country planning and intimations of SIA in the late 1970s and early 1980s
      • SIA guidance for infrastructure and economic development projects
      • Scoping in impact assessments for infrastructure projects: Reflections on South African experiences
      • Impact Assessment for Pacific Island Infrastructure
    • Issue #13 Health impact assessment: practice issues >
      • Introduction to health impact assessment: practice issues
      • International Health Impact Assessment – a personal view
      • Use of Health Impact Assessment to develop climate change adaptation plans for health
      • An integrated approach to assessing health impacts
      • Assessing the health and social impacts of transport policies and projects
      • Whither HIA in New Zealand….or just wither?
    • Issue #12 Risk Assessment: Case Studies and Approaches >
      • Introduction
      • Risk Assessment and Impact Assessment : A perspective from Victoria, Australia
      • The New and Adaptive Paradigm Needed to Manage Rising Coastal Risks
      • Reflections on Using Risk Assessments in Understanding Climate Change Adaptation Needs in Te Taitokerau Northland
      • Values-Based Impact Assessment and Emergency Management
      • Certainty about Communicating Uncertainty: Assessment of Flood Loss and Damage
      • Improving Understanding of Rockfall Geohazard Risk in New Zealand
      • Normalised New Zealand Natural Disaster Insurance Losses: 1968-2019
      • Houston, We Have a Problem - Seamless Integration of Weather and Climate Forecast for Community Resilience
      • Innovating with Online Data to Understand Risk and Impact in a Data Poor Environment
    • Impact Connector #11 Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Impact Assessment: views from the Pacific >
      • Introduction
      • Climate change adaptation and mitigation, impact assessment, and decision-making: a Pacific perspective
      • Climate adaptation and impact assessment in the Pacific: overview of SPREP-sponsored presentations
      • Land and Sea: Integrated Assessment of the Temaiku Land and Urban Development Project in Kiribati
      • Strategic Environmental Assessment: Rising to the SDG Challenge
      • Coastal Engineering for Climate Change Resilience in Eastern Tongatapu, Tonga
      • Climate-induced Migration in the Pacific: The Role of New Zealand
    • Impact Connector #10 Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation >
      • Introduction
      • Is a “just transition” possible for Māori?
      • Adapting to Climate Change on Scale: Addressing the Challenge and Understanding the Impacts of Asia Mega-Cities
      • How responding to climate change might affect health, for better or for worse
      • Kanuka, Kereru and carbon capture - Assessing the effects of a programme taking a fresh look at the hill and high country land resource
      • Wairoa: Community perceptions of increased afforestation
      • Te Kākahu Kahukura Ecological Restoration project: A story within a story
    • Issue #9 Impacts of Covid-19 >
      • Introduction to Impact Connector Issue 9 – Impact assessment and Covid 19
      • Covid-19 fast-track consenting: climate change legacy key to success
      • Tourism – the long haul ahead
      • Making sense of the impact of Covid-19: planning, politics, and the public good
    • Issue #8 Social Impact Assessment >
      • Challenges for Social Impact Assessment in New Zealand: looking backwards and looking forwards
      • Insights from the eighties: early Social Impact Assessment reports on rural community dynamics
      • Impact Assessment and the Capitals Framework: A Systems-based Approach to Understanding and Evaluating Wellbeing
      • Building resilience in Rural Communities – a focus on mobile population groups
      • Assessing the Impacts of a New Cycle Trail: A Fieldnote
      • The challenges of a new biodiversity strategy for social impact assessment (SIA)
      • “Say goodbye to traffic”? The role of SIA in establishing whether ‘air taxis’ are the logical next step in the evolution of transportation
    • Issue #7 Ecological Impact Assessment >
      • The future of Ecological Impact Assessment in New Zealand
      • Ecological impact assessment and roading projects
      • EcIA and the Resource Management Act
      • Professional Practice and implementation of EcIA
      • EcIA in the Marine Environment
    • Issue #6 Landscape Assessment >
      • Introduction
      • Lives and landscapes: who cares, what about, and does it matter?
      • Regional Landscape Inconsistency
      • Landscape management in the new world order
      • Landscape assessment and the Environment Court
      • Natural character assessments and provisions in a coastal environment
      • The Assessment and Management of Amenity
      • The rise of the THIMBY
      • Landscape - Is there a common understanding of the Common?
    • Issue #5 Cultural Impact Assessment >
      • Introduction
      • Potential of Cultural Impact Assessment
      • The Mitigation Dilemma
      • CIA and decision-making
      • Insights and observations on CIA
      • Achieving sustainability through CIA
      • CIA - Enhancing or diminishing mauri?
      • Strategic Indigenous Impact Assessment?
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      • Introduction
      • Iwi, Impact Assessment and Marine Environment
      • Sea-Bed Mining Application in Taranaki
      • The wreck of the MV Rena
      • High Court RMA Controls on Fishing
      • Initiatives in the Pacific Islands
      • SEA in an NZ context
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Welcome to the NZAIA Submissions page.....

Submission are organised chronologically, with the most recent listed first.



NZAIA's submission to the Environment Committee on the Fast-Track Approvals Bill  (19 April 2024)

There has been a great deal of discussion about the Bill in the media, and significant commentary from EDS, NZPI, Forest & Bird, and more recently the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, and the Auditor General.  NZAIA focused its comments on the implications for effective impact assessment, and it is noticeable how our comments are echoed in many other submissions and commentaries:  the Bill in its present form would, in our view, have significant adverse consequences for the efficient and effective use of impact assessment processes and therefore for environmental, social and cultural wellbeing.
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NZAIA's submission to the Environment Committee: Inquiry into Climate Adaptation   (1 Nov 2023)

The National Adaptation Plan emphasises better risk-informed decisions.  However, while risk assessments identify problems to be solved and may point to possible solutions, NZAIA believes it is still vital to ask:  will the proposed solution lead to significant  adverse impacts on people, their social and cultural wellbeing, and/or the natural environment?     We urge the use of appropriate impact assessment methods, such as strategic environmental assessment,  to inform adaptation decisions, especially at the regional level. 
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NZAIA's submission to the Environment Committee: Inquiry into Seabed mining in New Zealand  (1 Nov 2023)

It is essential that New Zealand retains, and improves on, the existing provisions for environmental impact assessment of sea bed mining proposals. But these need to be complemented by spatial planning approaches that include provisions for strategic environmental assessment. This would signal New Zealand’s role as a leader in protecting marine biodiversity and the health of marine ecosystems.
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NZAIA's submission on the Natural and Built Environments Bill - 2023 

NZAIA supports the broad changes represented by the NBA Bill, in particular the emphasis on strategic level plans, and more directive outcomes and targets. NZAIA particularly commends the emphasis on effects assessment in the Bill, but we have concerns about some of the provisions:
  • We are concerned that the Decision-making Principles (s6)(1)(b-d) place so much emphasis on achieving outcomes, that managing effects could become secondary to achieving those outcomes, to the detriment of the environment.
  • We recommend the inclusion of a coherent framework for effects assessment, based on international SEA models, set out in the NPF, that would link with the Effects Management Framework, and effects assessment and management requirements in the Spatial Planning Strategies. More specifically we recommend revising Schedule 7, cl 25, to give plan evaluation reports a more explicit strategic assessment role. 
  • We strongly recommend either the inclusion in Schedule 10 of an indicative (not prescriptive) model of how environmental assessments would normally be carried out, based on internationally recognised good practice principles; or a revision of clauses 6 and 7 of Schedule 10 regarding the content of AEEs to reflect more clearly underlying good practice principles.
  • NZAIA supports the recognition of Adaptive management (AM) (s86) as an important management tool, but we are wary about its potential abuse. We recommend that s233(3) be revised. 
  • We believe that disregarding “any effect on scenic views from private properties” rules out legitimate visual impact concerns of communities that are not simply NIMBYism.
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NZAIA's submission on the Freshwater Farm Plan regulations document - 2021

NZAIA's submission makes a number of recommendations for: 
  • a procedure and thresholds for determining and screening the need for consents; 
  • additional emphasis on the incorporation of iwi planning documents; 
  • encouragement of consultation with tangata whenua and stakeholders; 
  • clarification of the terms impact assessment and risk assessment; 
  • the use of SEA in regional freshwater plans; and 
  • compensatory schemes. 
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NZAIA's submission on the Exposure Draft of the Natural and Built Environments Bill - 2021 

We are unconvinced of a need for the new legislation. Over its lifetime the RMA has been amended to keep up with changing times, needs and knowledge and Governments have, since 2010, commenced providing national direction through national policy statements that had previously been absent. We consider a change in law at this time will provide a significant setback for the environment (including humans). The transitional period will be challenging and costly. There will be inevitable court action to clarify the application of the new legislation and it will take considerable time to put in place the proposed new National Framework and implement it at a local level.

​If the Bill proceeds we consider it is essential to strengthen provisions for impact assessment in the legislation.  

NZAIA's submission on Te Waihanga/New Zealand Infrastructure Commission's consultation document He Tūāpapa ki te Ora/Infrastructure for a Better Future - 2021

We welcome the recognition in the document to wider environmental, social and cultural impacts, both beneficial and adverse, of infrastructure development. However, the treatment of those impacts does focus mainly on biophysical aspects, especially water and air, and less on the potential impacts on people and communities. Moreover, little consideration is given to promoting decision-making processes that embed impact assessment thinking, especially at the policy and plan-making levels. Where processes are discussed they are seen very much through the economic lens, with heavy emphasis on Cost Benefit Analysis, and the expectation that impacts of all types will be amenable to quantification. In our view these problems will lead to inadequate consideration of wider adverse implications of infrastructure development.
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NZAIA's submission on the Climate Change Commission's Draft Advice to Government - 2021

The Commission’s advice report places a great deal of stress on recognising the impacts of emission reduction budgets and strategies, as part of the concern for equitable outcomes. However, the treatment of impacts is seen very much through the economic lens, and includes impacts on GDP, on market share, on the wellbeing of businesses of various kinds, and especially on employment. We accept this needs to be the starting point of the analyses, for sound policy reasons. However, in our view there are deficiencies in the further consideration of impacts, especially in the social area.
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NZAIA's submission on the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill - 2020

NZAIA supports the overall analysis and the recommendations in the submission from the Environmental Defence Society (EDS). NZAIA recommends that:
  • the public be allowed to comment on listed and referred projects;
  • the EPA reviews the quality of the AEEs early in the process to ensure they are adequate;
  • resources be made available to iwi and hapu involved in producing cultural impact assessments; and
  • a rapid SEA framework to allow the EPA to maintain a strategic overview of cumulative impacts.
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NZAIA's submission on the Urban Development Bill - 2020

NZAIA supports the overall analysis and many of the recommendations in the submission from the Environmental Defence Society (EDS). In particular, while we fully support the need to address urgent issues such as housing, we believe that urban planning and development needs to take place within the wider framework of environmental and resource management, and that the long term solution to more integrated planning for urban development lies with reform of the RMA.

NZAIA also strongly endorses EDS’ concern that environmental protection be seen as a critical part of good urban development, not an obstacle. Given the role of NZAIA in promoting and supporting impact assessment in Aotearoa New Zealand, we also have more specific comments on the Specified Development Project process and the Development Plan process.
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NZAIA's submission on the Discussion Paper Transforming the resource management system: opportunities for change - 2020

NZAIA believes this emphasis on impact assessment must be retained as an integral part of any future environmental/resource legislation. Further, we strongly recommend greater, and more explicit, use of impact assessment tools at the strategic levels of decision-making (policy and plan making in particular).

The discussion paper alludes several times to the emphasis on “effects-based” philosophy of the RMA, in the context of the lack of focus on environmental outcomes in the RMA, and the lack of strategic planning processes. It is important to recognise that these problems are not the result of a strong effects-based approach. They reflect how the Act was finally written. In fact, a greater emphasis on outcomes, and stronger strategic planning frameworks would both benefit from well designed impact assessment processes.
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NZAIA's submission on the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill - 2019

The purpose of the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill is to provide a framework for a stable policy environment with a clear emissions target and a guided pathway to get us there.

The amendment bill proposes four key things.
  • Set a new greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to reduce all greenhouse gases (except biogenic methane) to net zero by 2050, and to reduce emissions of biogenic methane within the range of 24–47 per cent below 2017 levels by 2050 including to 10 per cent below 2017 levels by 2030;
  • Set a series of emissions budgets to act as stepping stones towards the long-term target;
  • Require the Government to develop and implement policies for climate change adaptation and mitigation; and
  • Establish a new, independent Climate Change Commission to provide expert advice and monitoring to help keep successive governments on track to meeting long-term goals.

NZAIA identified that there is an opportunity to advocate as an organisation for the best practice use of impact assessment in this proposed law. Our main concern is that too much emphasis is placed on the role of risk asses
sment in the policy and plan making processes, with too little emphasis on understanding the impacts of the potential mitigation and adaptation strategies and plans.

Impact assessment approaches and methods have an equally important role to play as risk assessment, and require a stronger mandate in the Bill. As it stands the Bill contains a number of requirements that would clearly benefit from the use of impact assessment methods. We consider there should be explicit reference to the use of such methods, to ensure more consistent, effective, equitable, and sustainable policy and plan development, particularly with respect to adaptation responses.

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Past NZAIA Submissions


Submission to the Ministry for the Environment : Clean Water 2017 
April 2017 
​
The Government consulted on proposals to improve the management of our lakes, rivers and other waterbodies. The proposals were part of the Clean Water package 2017. The proposals were:
  • amendments to the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2014
  • keeping stock out of waterways.

Read more about the Clean Water package 

Submission to the New Zealand Productivity Commission on the draft report " Better Urban Planning" 
October 2016

The Productivity Commission was asked by the government to identify the most appropriate system for allocating land use in cities. This includes the processes that are currently undertaken through the Resource Management Act, the Local Government Act and the Land Transport Management Act. The inquiry intended to provide a framework for assessing future planning reforms.

More about the Inquiry 


Submission to the Ministry for the Environment on the Conservation and Environment Science Roadmap Discussion Paper
September 2016 

The Government sought public input for the development of its proposed conservation and environment science roadmap. The roadmap will identify the areas of scientific knowledge needed by government over the next 20 years to support decision-making for conservation and environmental policy and management to achieve the most desirable future for New Zealand.

View the Roadmap


Submission to the Ministry for the Environment on the Proposed National Policy Statement in Urban Development Capacity 
July 2016 

The National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity 2016 (NPS-UDC) recognises the national significance of:
  • urban environments and the need to enable such environments to develop and change
  • providing sufficient development capacity to meet the needs of people and communities and future generations in urban environments.

​Read more about the NPS-UDC. 

Submission to the Christchurch Select Committee hearing on the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill 
May 2016

Submission on the Resource Legislation Amendment Bill 
March 2016

The Resource Legislation Amendment Bill proposed a number of changes to resource management laws. The final Resource Legislation Amendment Act amended five different Acts: the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA), Conservation Act 1986, Reserves Act 1977, Public Works Act 1981, and Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2013. Read more about the Act. 

Submission to the Ministry for the Environment on " A New Marine Protected Areas Act" consultation document 
March 2016

This consultation document set out the Government’s proposal for a new approach to marine protection in New Zealand. If agreed the policy recommendations would form a new Marine Protected Areas Act. This new act would replace the Marine Reserves Act 1971.

Submission to the New Zealand Transport Agency on their draft " Guide to Assessing Social Impacts for State Highway Projects"
February 2016

The guide seeks to achieve a nationally consistent approach to carrying out social impact assessment for state highway projects at all stages of a project’s life cycle. View the Guide. 

Submission to the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Agency (CERA) on the Transitional Recovery Plan 
July 2015

Submission to the Ministry for the Environment on the National Policy Statement on Freshwater Management 
July 2014

The National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (Freshwater NPS) provides direction on how local authorities should carry out their responsibilities under the Resource Management Act 1991 for managing fresh water.

Read more about the NPS-FM

Submission to the Local Government and Environment Committee on the Environmental Reporting Bill 
April 2014

The Environmental Reporting Act 2015 set in law the provision of comprehensive environmental information for New Zealanders that is easy to understand, independent and relevant. ​The Act makes responsibilities for environmental reporting explicit. It also sets the broad framework for the scope of reporting and timing for reporting products.

Read more about the Act 

Submission to the Ministry for the Environment on the discussion document "Improving our Resource Management System" 
June 2013


Submission to the Government on the Resource Management Amendment Bill 2013 
February 2013
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      • The drivers and agents of on-farm change in Aotearoa New Zealand
      • Social-ecological assessment for remote and island communities
      • The Impact of Substandard Rural Housing on Resilience and Wellbeing in Te Tai Tokerau
      • Success factors for planning regeneration in rural areas
    • Issue #15 Economic methods and Impact Assessment >
      • Economic methods in impact assessment: an introduction
      • The Nature of Economic Analysis for Resource Management
      • The State-of-the-Art and Prospects: Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services in Environmental Impact Assessment
      • Economic impact assessment and regional development: reflections on Queensland mining impacts
      • Fonterra’s policy on economic incentives for promoting sustainable farming practices
    • Issue #14 Impact assessment for infrastructure development >
      • Impact assessment for infrastructure development - an introduction
      • Place Matters: The importance of geographic assessment of areas of influence in understanding the social effects of large-scale transport investment in Wellington
      • Unplanned Consequences? New Zealand's experiment with urban (un)planning and infrastructure implications
      • Reflections on infrastructure, Town and Country planning and intimations of SIA in the late 1970s and early 1980s
      • SIA guidance for infrastructure and economic development projects
      • Scoping in impact assessments for infrastructure projects: Reflections on South African experiences
      • Impact Assessment for Pacific Island Infrastructure
    • Issue #13 Health impact assessment: practice issues >
      • Introduction to health impact assessment: practice issues
      • International Health Impact Assessment – a personal view
      • Use of Health Impact Assessment to develop climate change adaptation plans for health
      • An integrated approach to assessing health impacts
      • Assessing the health and social impacts of transport policies and projects
      • Whither HIA in New Zealand….or just wither?
    • Issue #12 Risk Assessment: Case Studies and Approaches >
      • Introduction
      • Risk Assessment and Impact Assessment : A perspective from Victoria, Australia
      • The New and Adaptive Paradigm Needed to Manage Rising Coastal Risks
      • Reflections on Using Risk Assessments in Understanding Climate Change Adaptation Needs in Te Taitokerau Northland
      • Values-Based Impact Assessment and Emergency Management
      • Certainty about Communicating Uncertainty: Assessment of Flood Loss and Damage
      • Improving Understanding of Rockfall Geohazard Risk in New Zealand
      • Normalised New Zealand Natural Disaster Insurance Losses: 1968-2019
      • Houston, We Have a Problem - Seamless Integration of Weather and Climate Forecast for Community Resilience
      • Innovating with Online Data to Understand Risk and Impact in a Data Poor Environment
    • Impact Connector #11 Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation, and Impact Assessment: views from the Pacific >
      • Introduction
      • Climate change adaptation and mitigation, impact assessment, and decision-making: a Pacific perspective
      • Climate adaptation and impact assessment in the Pacific: overview of SPREP-sponsored presentations
      • Land and Sea: Integrated Assessment of the Temaiku Land and Urban Development Project in Kiribati
      • Strategic Environmental Assessment: Rising to the SDG Challenge
      • Coastal Engineering for Climate Change Resilience in Eastern Tongatapu, Tonga
      • Climate-induced Migration in the Pacific: The Role of New Zealand
    • Impact Connector #10 Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation >
      • Introduction
      • Is a “just transition” possible for Māori?
      • Adapting to Climate Change on Scale: Addressing the Challenge and Understanding the Impacts of Asia Mega-Cities
      • How responding to climate change might affect health, for better or for worse
      • Kanuka, Kereru and carbon capture - Assessing the effects of a programme taking a fresh look at the hill and high country land resource
      • Wairoa: Community perceptions of increased afforestation
      • Te Kākahu Kahukura Ecological Restoration project: A story within a story
    • Issue #9 Impacts of Covid-19 >
      • Introduction to Impact Connector Issue 9 – Impact assessment and Covid 19
      • Covid-19 fast-track consenting: climate change legacy key to success
      • Tourism – the long haul ahead
      • Making sense of the impact of Covid-19: planning, politics, and the public good
    • Issue #8 Social Impact Assessment >
      • Challenges for Social Impact Assessment in New Zealand: looking backwards and looking forwards
      • Insights from the eighties: early Social Impact Assessment reports on rural community dynamics
      • Impact Assessment and the Capitals Framework: A Systems-based Approach to Understanding and Evaluating Wellbeing
      • Building resilience in Rural Communities – a focus on mobile population groups
      • Assessing the Impacts of a New Cycle Trail: A Fieldnote
      • The challenges of a new biodiversity strategy for social impact assessment (SIA)
      • “Say goodbye to traffic”? The role of SIA in establishing whether ‘air taxis’ are the logical next step in the evolution of transportation
    • Issue #7 Ecological Impact Assessment >
      • The future of Ecological Impact Assessment in New Zealand
      • Ecological impact assessment and roading projects
      • EcIA and the Resource Management Act
      • Professional Practice and implementation of EcIA
      • EcIA in the Marine Environment
    • Issue #6 Landscape Assessment >
      • Introduction
      • Lives and landscapes: who cares, what about, and does it matter?
      • Regional Landscape Inconsistency
      • Landscape management in the new world order
      • Landscape assessment and the Environment Court
      • Natural character assessments and provisions in a coastal environment
      • The Assessment and Management of Amenity
      • The rise of the THIMBY
      • Landscape - Is there a common understanding of the Common?
    • Issue #5 Cultural Impact Assessment >
      • Introduction
      • Potential of Cultural Impact Assessment
      • The Mitigation Dilemma
      • CIA and decision-making
      • Insights and observations on CIA
      • Achieving sustainability through CIA
      • CIA - Enhancing or diminishing mauri?
      • Strategic Indigenous Impact Assessment?
    • Issue #4 Marine Environment >
      • Introduction
      • Iwi, Impact Assessment and Marine Environment
      • Sea-Bed Mining Application in Taranaki
      • The wreck of the MV Rena
      • High Court RMA Controls on Fishing
      • Initiatives in the Pacific Islands
      • SEA in an NZ context
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