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PUCM Papers

Research Commons

PUCM Papers

 

<p><a href="http://www.waikato.ac.nz/igci/pucm/">Planning Under Co-operative Mandates (PUCM)</a> is an on-going research programme focusing on the New Zealand Government's goal of sustainable development through local government.

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Recent Submissions

  • Evaluating the outcomes of plans: theory, practice, and methodology  
    Laurian, Lucie; Crawford, Janet; Day, Maxine; Kouwenhoven, Peter; Mason, Greg; Ericksen, Neil; Beattie, Lee (2010)
    Despite calls for performance-oriented and evidence-based planning, the outcomes of land use and environmental plans are rarely monitored or assessed ex post facto (that is, post implementation). As a result, planners ...
  • The legend of the RMA: A trilogy  
    Ericksen, Neil (The International Global Change Institute (IGCI), University of Waikato., 2003)
    In this presentation the author paints the conflict of people versus nature in light of the RMA, and go on to look at the repercussions of this through not only the plans that were prepared under this controversial ...
  • Planning and governance under the LGA: Lessons from the RMA experience.  
    Borrie, Nancy; Memon, Ali; Ericksen, Neil; Crawford, Janet (The International Global Change Institute (IGCI), University of Waikato., 2004)
    The purpose of this report is to identify ways in which experiences gained from the RMA as a devolved and co-operative planning mandate can enable local and central government and other stakeholders to more effectively ...
  • Planning paradise with the Cheshire Cat: Governance problems under the RMA  
    Ericksen, Neil (2003)
    Much has been made of compliance costs to business and the need to process consents hastily in relation to the Resource Management Act in New Zealand. This obsession with compliance misses the fundamental problem of ...
  • PUCM 2 Survey Results 2001-2002  
    Day, Maxine; Backhurst, Michael (International Global Change Institute, University of Waikato, 2002)
    This Report contains the results from a survey of resource management consultants and resource consent applicants carried out during 2001-2002 to gain factual and attitudinal information about the plan implementation ...

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