Institute for Governance and Policy Studies & the School of Government
Abstract
Let us begin with the proposition that there is much in the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) that needs to be fixed. How that cure is to be effected is not widely agreed. Indeed, the policy surrounding the Resource Management Act at present seems confused. We need to stop and ask, what are we trying to do in this space? I shall in this address try to unravel the issues. Being a planner in this febrile policy context must have its challenges