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   management. \parencite[p 31]{sadler}.
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-The RMA 
+Interestingly and somewhat unusually in international comparison, the
+RMA shifts the main responsibility of resource management activities
+to local authorities rather than imposing a prescriptive management
+style. The role of central government under the RMA is purposefully
+limited, allowing district and city councils to let their decisions be
+guided by locally determined goals. This devolved mandate---the
+increasing distribution of responsibility from the national to the
+regional and finally local level---is intended to ensure that
+decisions relating to resource usage are made not only within the
+national policy framework but also at a level closest to the resources
+in question \parencite[p 27]{miller2010implementing}.
+
+
+Responsible for the national policy framework within which local
+authorities evaluate resource consent application
+  - Ministry for the Environment responsible for RMA
 
- three layers of plans
 
-- devolved mandate, i.e. decision making is undertaken at the closest level to which it was given effect, e.g. land is a locally used resource and thus decisions are to be made by district and city councils.
 
 ``Social Assessment'' (Taylor et al in the Green Book, chapter 25)
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