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  • Best Practice Consultation on High Profile Projects (PDF 452.72 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - December 2005

    Describes the community consultation process undertaken by Opus International Consultants for the Auckland Eastern Transport Corridor, and highlights some core values for community consultation.

  • Children are Citizens Too! (PDF 352.41 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - December 2004

    A summary of research findings regarding how agendas concerning children and young people initiated at central government level are transferred into decision making by local government planners.

  • Citizen in the Environment: Access to Justice (PDF 0.74 MB)

    Published by Resource Management Law Association of New Zealand Inc - November 1999

    This article discusses the protection of the environment and the citizens, procedural rights to a clean environment, and access to justice.

  • Co-operative Style (PDF 310.64 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - December 2000

    This paper discusses the community-led consultation, development and implementation of the Medlands Beach Landscape Management Plan, Great Barrier Island.

  • Community Planning - A Southern View (PDF 339.10 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - June 2006

    Discusses how best to involve diverse communities in planning, including common assumptions about what comprises “community” and key characteristics essential to developing good processes.

  • Consultation Conundrums (PDF 0.65 MB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - December 2004

    Outlines the steps the Greater Wellington Regional Council used to guarantee a good consultation process during the development of their Wairarapa Coastal Strategy.

  • Developing a Full Consultation Plan (PDF 137.87 KB)

    Published by Otorohanga District Council - June 2005

    Profiles how the Otorohanga District Council developed a full consultation plan prior to any work on the district plan.

  • Good Practice Participate

    Published by Ministry of Social Development - June 2002

    This website has been designed to provide information, advice and tips to public servants on how to consult and engage with the community, voluntary, iwi and Maori organisations.

  • Integrated catchment management – A way forward for sustainable land management?

    Published by Landcare Research - April 2006

    Reviews the progress of the Motueka ICM research programme after five years, and its goal to help improve the management of land, freshwater and near-coastal environments in catchments.

  • Partnerships in Sustainable Development (PDF 2.58 MB)

    Published January 1996

    Investigates themes such as urban growth, conferences on urban growth, community participation and capacity building, and discusses the brown and green agendas for global sustainability.

  • Procedural Justice and Social Learning (PDF 0.72 MB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - January 2001

    An overview of procedural justice and social learning, methods used to encourage greater public participation in planning; includes good practice guidelines for public participation practices in NZ.

  • Project Twin Streams (PDF 1.13 MB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - June 2004

    An overview of Project Twin streams, a Waitakere City project aiming to improve the natural environment in major catchments of the city undergoing significant urbanization and economic development.

  • Resource Management and the Community (PDF 126.91 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - March 2004

    Findings of a research project undertaken to determine whether there is an unmet legal need in the area of Resource Management in Wellington, and what services could be provided to meet these needs.

  • Roading Affects Communities (PDF 223.65 KB)

    Published by New Zealand Planning Institute - March 2003

    Examines the approach and techniques used by Transit NZ and Manukau City Council (project partners) to involve affected residents and communities in the Waiouru Peninsula to SH1 Project.

  • See Change: Learning and education for sustainability

    Published by Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment - January 2004

    Investigates educating people and organisations on sustainability in NZ society, to increase debate regarding sustainability education and motivate change towards living in sustainable ways.

  • Turning Hopes and Dreams into Actions and Results: Whangamata, a case study of community planning in a coastal area

    Published by Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment - March 2005

    Describes the role the Whangamata community plan played in improving the water quality of Whangamata Harbour, and the the applicability of community plans in resolving complex environmental problems.

  • Working Together in Thames-Coromandel: Guidelines for Community Planning

    Published by Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment - November 2005

    This report draws some conclusions from the community planning process used in Whangamata, a coastal town in the Coromandel under intense environmental pressure.

  • Your Rights as an 'Affected Person'

    Published by Ministry for the Environment - November 2009

    A guide for people who have been asked to give their written approval to someone else's resource consent application.

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