DSL Environmental Handbook is a comprehensive and practical guide to New Zealand environmental law.

The work takes a wide-ranging view of environmental law, bringing together an author team of over 30 leading planners, lawyers, government advisors, academics, mediators and resource management consultants. Information is organised on a topical basis, with each of the 26 chapters considering a particular issue or element of New Zealand environmental law.

DSL Environmental Handbook is well-established as an essential reference work for anyone who is required to administer, provide advice or research anything related to New Zealand’s Resource Management Act and other environmental law. It has been used by lawyers, planners, central and local government advisors and in tertiary institutions since its publication in 1996.

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• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Air Quality
• Appeals
• Aquaculture
• Contaminated Sites (both technical and legal)
• Costs in Environmental Court Proceedings
• Designations and Requirements
• Enforcement and Abatement
• Evidence (including expert witness and expert evidence)
• Hazardous Substances
• Heritage
• Infringement Offences
• Lighting
• Maori Consultation
• Measuring Effects
• Noise
• Odour
• District and Regional Plan Timetables (operative dates for all Plans)
• Prosecution and Penalties
• Requiring Authorities (complete list)
• Resource Consents (Land Use, Coastal Permits, Discharge to Land and Water, Subdivision, Notification)
• Reverse Sensitivity
• Section 32 Resource Management Act 1991
• Section 33 Resource Management Act 1991
• Stormwater and Sediment
• Sustainable Management
• Water Management

AUTHORS

• Bill Rainey & Hamish Brown (Concordia NZ Ltd) Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Philip Millichamp (Ministry for Environment) Air Quality
• Bill Loutit & Nicolette Butler (Simpson Grierson) Appeals
• Hamish Rennie (Lincoln University) Aquaculture
• Marija Batistch & Eleanor Taffs (Bell Gully), Trevor Daya-Winterbottom (Barrister) Contaminated Sites
• Mark Christensen & Warwick Goldsmith (Anderson Lloyd) Costs
• Duncan McKenzie (Resorce & Environmental Management Ltd) Designations and Requirements
• Stuart Ryan (Hesketh Henry) Enforcement and Abatement
• Harry Bhana (Harry Bhana & Associates Ltd), Laurie Newhook & David Sheppard (Environment Court) Evidence
• Norbert Schaffoener (Hazardous Substances & Resource Management Consulting) Hazardous Substances
• Yvonne Legarth, Rick McGovern-Wilson & Karen Grieg (NZ Historic Places Trust, arczoo Ltd) Heritage
• Karenza de Silva (Lawyer) Infringement Offences
• Clark Houltram (Beca Carter) Lighting
• Prue Kapua (Tamatekapua Law) Maori Consultation
• John Maassen (CR Law) Measuring Effects
• Vern Goodwin (Environmental Noise Analysis & Advice Service) Noise
• Roger Cudmore (Kingett Mitchell Ltd) Odour
• Karenza de Silva (Lawyer) Prosecution and Penalties
• Peter Coop (Urban Perspectives Ltd), Wendy Embling (Willis Toomey), Vern Pickett (Senior Planner), Wendy Turvey & Stephanie Brown (Opus International), Suzanne Janissen, Angela Hurst, Asher Davidson & Georgina Hall (Chapman Tripp), Resource Consents
• Marija Batistich & Eleanor Taffs (Bell Gully) Reverse Sensitivity
• Jayne Klein & Adrienne Young Cooper (Hill Young Cooper Ltd) Section 32 RMA
• Hamish Rennie & Jill Thomson (Eclectic Energy) Section 33 RMA
• Claire Kirman (Ellis Gould) Stormwater and Sediment
• Jim Milne (Barrister) Sustainable Management
• Stephen Christensen & Philippa Jones (Anderson Lloyd) Water Management

Media Types

Looseleaf

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