RRI Green Planning Archives: New Zealand

Policy Tour to New Zealand, December 2000, “Seeing is Believing”
This document summarizes the series of meetings and presentations that comprised the Resource Renewal Institute’s “Seeing is Believing” policy tour of New Zealand, which traversed the island nation from Auckland to Wellington to Queenstown during the first week of December 2000. The New Zealand policy tour brought together a cross-section of 26 leaders to learn, firsthand, about New Zealand’s unique approach to the long-term sustainable management of the country’s natural and physical environment.
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New Zealand Policy Tour 1999: Summary Report
A report on RRI’s one-week policy tour of New Zealand for a delegation of eight U.S. environmental practitioners, mainly from California.

Overview of NZ’s Resource Management Act (current to 1999)
A description of the reform of New Zealand’s environmental policy framework in the late 80s and early 90s, specifically the Resource Management Act, Environment 2010 Strategy, and the roles of business, government and NGOs.
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Waitakere City, Aotearoa, New Zealand: A Postcard from Paradise, (1999)
Speech by Mayor Bob Harvey of Waitakere City at the Marin Economic Commission Annual Awards Luncheon.

A Green Plan at the Crossroads (1998)
RRI staff member, Leo Koziol provides an update on NZ’s experience with the RMA.

Environmental Policy Review (current to 1995)
A discussion of NZ's environmental history, guiding principles, policy development, policy implementation, special areas of concern.

• Environmental History is a brief chronology of important environmental developments in a country.
• Guiding Principles summarizes key legal, economic, and philosophical principles influencing environmental policies.
• Policy Development summarizes the development process and the roles played by government, industry, and citizens.
• Policy Implementation summarizes legislative, regulatory, fiscal, and other measures used to achieve policy goals.
• Special Areas of Concern profiles a country's major environmental problems and policy emphases regarding pollution control and natural resource management.
• International Context looks at the global conditions affecting a country's environment and its cooperation on environmental issues with neighboring states and the world community.

“Implementing Sustainability: New Zealand’s Experience with its Resource Management Act, (1995)
A speech by Lindsay Gow, Acting Secretary of the Ministry for the Environment at the NZ Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Managing Resources in New Zealand (1995)
Cath Wallace, Lecturer at Victoria University’s Public Policy and Economic Group provides an overview of environmental policy in New Zealand

The Sweeping Change of the Resource Management Act (1993)
Dr. Roger Blakely, Environment Secretary at the NZ Ministry for the Environment, describes the radical reform of environmental policy and institutions in New Zealand.

New Zealand Resource Management Act: A summary (1991)
A New Zealand Ministry for the Environment publication summarizing the Resource Management Act.