ABSTRACT
The key national strategy or green planning processes in New Zealand are the Resource Management Act (1991) and the Environment 2010 Strategy (1995). A state of the environment report is being prepared (due February 1996). Furthermore, a Sustainable Land Management Strategy and a Sustainable Water Management Strategy are being developed to give focus and further direction to the sustainable environmental management agenda (see section below on focus). A National Conservation Strategy was developed, but it was not implemented and ‘sat on the shelf’. However, this strategy, the Brundtland report (WCED, 1987), and internal work in the Ministry for the Environment (MfE), have been ingredients in elaborating the concept of sustainable development within New Zealand.
