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Submission on the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill cover

Submission: The Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill

This submission in response to the Severe Weather Emergency Recovery Legislation Bill is made by The New Zealand Initiative (the Initiative), a Wellington-based think tank supported primarily by major New Zealand businesses. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Dr Eric Crampton

Dr Bryce Wilkinson

Roger Partridge

Submission

29 March, 2023

Webinar recording: Resource Management Reform

It’s hard to find fans of the Resource Management Act. But will the government’s proposed reforms be an improvement? Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

Kevin Counsell, Andreas Heuser, Paul Melville

Webinar

16 March, 2023

Mike Hosking discusses Eric Crampton's Newsroom column

Mike Hosking discusses Eric Crampton's Newsroom column about managing retreat and insurance in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

NewstalkZB

2 March, 2023

Managing retreat

Managed retreat from floods and rising sea levels seems like a difficult problem. How to decide who might be allowed to live where, and what risks are acceptable? Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

Newsroom

28 February, 2023

Podcast: The economic effects of Cyclone Gabrielle

Resilient infrastructure is crucial for protecting people during disasters and ensuring that communities can bounce back quickly in the aftermath of a crisis. Two powerful examples of this can be seen in New Zealand's response to the 2011 Christchurch earthquake and, more recently, Cyclone Gabrielle. Read more

Dr Oliver Hartwich

Dr Eric Crampton

Dr Bryce Wilkinson

Podcast

15 February, 2023

Submissions expose horrors of David Parker’s RMA reform proposals

Environment Minister David Parker’s Resource Management law reform proposals have been a long time in the making. The trio of Bills Parker proposes to replace the much-maligned Resource Management Act date back to the work of a government task force established in 2019. Read more

Roger Partridge

NZ Herald

15 February, 2023

NZ Initiative Submission NBEA and SPA combined Page 01

Submission: The Natural and Built Environment Bill and Spatial Planning Bill

This submission in response to the Natural and Built Environment Bill is made by The New Zealand Initiative, a Wellington-based think tank supported primarily by major New Zealand businesses. The Initiative has been deeply concerned about resource management policy and practice since its establishment in 2012. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

Submission

3 February, 2023

Why Hipkins should call time on RMA reforms

At 11:59pm on Sunday, submissions close on Environment Minister David Parker’s Natural and Built Environment Bill. One minute to midnight on the Sunday of Waitangi weekend is a strange deadline for submissions on a once-in-a-generation proposal to reform the Resource Management Act. Read more

Roger Partridge

Insights Newsletter

3 February, 2023

Mike Hosking discusses Roger Partridge's NZ Herald column

Mike Hosking discusses Roger Partridge's NZ Herald column on the RMA replacement.

Read more

Roger Partridge

NewstalkZB

29 November, 2022

Wine, bottles, and resource management reform

Last week, the government released the first parts of its proposed overhaul of the resource management system. If passed into law, the Natural and Built Environment Bill will, over a transition period, replace the Resource Management Act. Read more

Dr Eric Crampton

Newsroom

22 November, 2022

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