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diff --git a/assignment1/discussion.tex b/assignment1/discussion.tex index 489f905..38fc85a 100644 --- a/assignment1/discussion.tex +++ b/assignment1/discussion.tex @@ -104,9 +104,16 @@ applications to be considered \parencite{fookes}. % - screening is political because it depends on the values of those % who perform the screening; public participation in plan development? -When the cumulative effects of more than one proposal are to be -considered, ... need coverage by plan/policies at national/regional -level + monitoring. +The same problem exists for `Permitted Activities' whose impact is +considered too minor to warrant an assessment of effect. The RMA does +not demand an assessment of the cumulative impacts of `Permitted +Activities'. According to the RMA Survey 2010/2011, a surprisingly +large percentage of regional councils (91\%) carried out monitoring +procedures and reported on `Permitted Activities' for the sake of +assessing cumulative impacts \parencite{rma-survey}. According to the +same survey, however, only 68 per cent of those activities that +required both resource consents and monitoring were monitored by +regional and territorial councils. % This is one of the reasons for the birth of Strategic Environmental Assessment. @@ -114,8 +121,6 @@ level + monitoring. \textcite{miller2010implementing} - hence: few constraints on local plans, leading to regional differences -- insufficient monitoring (68\%) \parencite{rma-survey} - - one-off projects that don't improve the knowledge basis or affect the assessment of future projects \parencite{follow-up} |