The Resource Management Act Reforms: A Return to Unbridled Power?

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Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC

Victoria University of Wellington, Te Herenga Waka - Faculty of Law

Date Written: August 7, 2013

Abstract

A lecture to the Environmental Defence Society, delivered in Auckland on 7 August 2013. The lecture traces the “Think Big” economic philosophy of the late 1970s and early 1980s, epitomised by the National Development Act 1979, and examines how this provided the foundations for the Resource Management Act 1991. It describes the extensive law reform process that preceded the Resource Management Act, and the problems that beset the product.

Keywords: "Resource Management Act 1991", "National Development Act 1979"

JEL Classification: K00, K23

Suggested Citation

Palmer QC, Sir Geoffrey, The Resource Management Act Reforms: A Return to Unbridled Power? (August 7, 2013). Victoria University of Wellington Legal Research Paper No. 32/2021, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3933441 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3933441

Sir Geoffrey Palmer QC (Contact Author)

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