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diff --git a/assignment1/main.tex b/assignment1/main.tex index 6c310dc..8bc75ae 100644 --- a/assignment1/main.tex +++ b/assignment1/main.tex @@ -60,7 +60,11 @@ activities \parencite{principles}: globe''. \item[Reporting, independent review and decision-making.] - TODO + + A final EIA report is required to contain sufficient information + to allow for well-informed decisions about the proposed activity. An + independent review ensures that the report is of sufficiently high + quality. \item[Monitoring and other follow-up activities.] TODO @@ -99,16 +103,12 @@ activities per se, but ``focuses on the regulation of the effects of human activities on the environment'' \parencite{furuseth}. Notably, the RMA makes no reference to EIA or environmental assessment procedures. As \textcite{sadler} writes, environmental assessment -under the RMA - -\begin{quote} - operates within the statutory planning - and consent system rather than as a separate procedure, applies - explicitly to projects and is indirectly specified for policy - statements and strategic plans which local authorities are required to - prepare to guide and implement sustainable resource - management. \parencite[p 31]{sadler}. -\end{quote} +under the RMA ``operates within the statutory planning and consent +system rather than as a separate procedure, applies explicitly to +projects and is indirectly specified for policy statements and +strategic plans which local authorities are required to prepare to +guide and implement sustainable resource management'' \parencite[p +31]{sadler}. \subsubsection{The role of sustainable development} @@ -178,24 +178,16 @@ resource consents \parencite{furuseth}. As \textcite{miller2010implementing} notes, the issues every regional council has to address in plans and policy statements are mostly related to the sustainable management of natural or physical -resources. - -Planning freedom at the district level is largely constrained by the +resources. Planning freedom at the district level is largely constrained by the regional plans and policies. % TODO? one more sentence; subdivision etc done at district level -\subsubsection{Coordination and cooperation} - -% merge this section with the previous section -This overlapping mandate clearly requires special efforts to ensure coordination ... -%TODO: must mention consultation steps in RMA! check miller2010implementing - - \subsubsection{Plans and resource consents} The plans and policies at the national, regional, and district level provide a framework for regulation of development activities. %TODO: the evolution of a plan; public participation in the evolution of plans +%TODO: must mention consultation steps in RMA! check miller2010implementing For every proposed activity that is not explicitly allowed as a `Permitted Activity' in the appropriate regional or district plan, |