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@@ -137,12 +137,25 @@ national environmental standards are supposed to provide reference
 points for local plans and policies that determine the `intensity' of
 environmental monitoring, yet the Ministry for the Environment has
 been relatively slow in publishing these national
-guidelines \parencite{miller2010implementing}. The relative lack of
-guiding constraints on local plans favours regional differences in the
-implementation of environmental management practices.
+guidelines \parencite{miller2010implementing}.  Although according to
+\textcite{sadler}, the integrated approach to EIA encouraged by the
+RMA should, in theory, be sufficient to establish a ``context and
+parameters for susidiary EIAs, which are required for all resource use
+consents'', due to slow implementation of the RMA ``local governments
+still rely on project EIA rather than undertaking policy and
+plan-level assessments'' (p 146).  The relative lack of guiding
+constraints on local plans favours regional differences in the
+implementation of environmental management practices \parencite{TODO}.
 
 
-\subsection{EIA at the policy level}
+\subsection{TODO: Effective? Does EIA bring about sustainable development?}
+\textcite{retrospect}:
+``EIA generally continues to bring about only relatively modest adjustments of development proposals.''
+  also seems to apply for NZ resource consents:
+  - only a little more than half a percent of all resource consents are declined \parencite{rma-survey}
+
+- failure to predict important impacts
+- poor communication
 
 ``Environmental Assessment in a Changing World'' (EAE\_10E.PDF, Sadler)
 \begin{quote} (page 49)
@@ -152,26 +165,4 @@ implementation of environmental management practices.
   management. Application at this level is variable and, overall, it is
   concluded that the unique way that EA is integrated into the Act makes
   evaluation of the effectiveness of implementation difficult
-\end{quote}
-
-(page 164[pdf], 146[published])
-\begin{quote}
-  SEA is intended to be an integral part of
-  policy and plan-setting, rather than being applied to them as a
-  separate procedure. The resulting framework, in turn, establishes a
-  context and parameters for subsidiary EIAs, which are required for all
-  resource use consents and where the presumption is for protection via
-  rigorous limits on discharges etc. However, in practice,
-  implementation of the Act is occurring slowly. Experience to date
-  indicates that local governments still rely on project EIA rather than
-  undertaking policy and plan-level assessments,
-\end{quote}
-
-\subsection{TODO: Effective? Does EIA bring about sustainable development?}
-\textcite{retrospect}:
-``EIA generally continues to bring about only relatively modest adjustments of development proposals.''
-  also seems to apply for NZ resource consents:
-  - only a little more than half a percent of all resource consents are declined \parencite{rma-survey}
-
-- failure to predict important impacts
-- poor communication
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+\end{quote}
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