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diff --git a/assignment1/main.tex b/assignment1/main.tex index 406c6be..ef1f88e 100644 --- a/assignment1/main.tex +++ b/assignment1/main.tex @@ -98,11 +98,24 @@ under the RMA management. \parencite[p 31]{sadler}. \end{quote} -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) \begin{quote} |