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Dame Sian Elias speech about Environmental Defenders

Dame Sian Elias, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
May 2024

Briefing for Incoming Minister of Climate Change

Environmental Defence Society
December 2023

Briefing for Incoming Minister of Oceans and Fisheries

Environmental Defence Society
December 2023

Briefing for Incoming Minister of Forestry

Environmental Defence Society
December 2023

Briefing for Incoming Minister for the Environment and Minister for Resource Management Reform

Environmental Defence Society
December 2023

Briefing for the Incoming Minister of Conservation and Minister for Hunting and Fishing

Environmental Defence Society
December 2023

Climate Adaptation Act: Building a Durable Future Case study: Ōmana ki Umupuia

Sasha Maher
December 2023

Aotearoa New Zealand’s Climate Change Adaptation Act: Building a Durable Future, Options and Models for Managed Relocation Policy, Working Paper 3

Raewyn Peart, Benjamin D Tombs and Katie Marshall
December 2023

Reform of the Wildlife Act 1953: An Opportunity for Transformational Change of Aotearoa New Zealand’s Biodiversity Law

Dr Deidre Koolen-Bourke, Raewyn Peart and Shay Schlaepfer
July 2023

Reform of the Wildlife Act 1953: Appendix A – Comparative review of international threatened species law

Dr Deidre Koolen-Bourke, Raewyn Peart and Shay Schlaepfer
July 2023

Reform of the Wildlife Act 1953: Appendix B – The Wildlife Act and Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Dr Deidre Koolen-Bourke, Raewyn Peart and Shay Schlaepfer
July 2023

Reform of the Wildlife Act 1953: Appendix C – Interface between the Wildlife Act and introduced species

Dr Deidre Koolen-Bourke, Raewyn Peart and Shay Schlaepfer
July 2023

Reform of the Wildlife Act 1953: Appendix D – Interface between the Wildlife Act and protection of marine species

Dr Deidre Koolen-Bourke, Raewyn Peart and Shay Schlaepfer
July 2023

Reform of the Wildlife Act 1953: Appendix E – Tax incentives for biodiversity conservation

Dr Deidre Koolen-Bourke, Raewyn Peart and Shay Schlaepfer
July 2023

Aotearoa New Zealand’s Climate Change Adaptation Act: Building a Durable Future, Current Legislative and Policy Framework for Managed Relocation, Working Paper 2

Raewyn Peart and Benjamin D Tombs
May 2023

Aotearoa New Zealand’s Climate Change Adaptation Act: Building a Durable Future, Current Legislative and Policy Framework for Managed Relocation, Appendix to Working Paper 2

Raewyn Peart and Benjamin D Tombs
May 2023

Independent Review of the Conservation Management Planning System

Deidre Koolen-Bourke, Raewyn Peart, Bronwyn Wilde and Tracey Turner
April 2023

Briefing for Incoming Minister of Oceans and Fisheries

Environmental Defence Society
April 2023

Environmental Advocacy in the Future Resource Management System

By Greg Severinsen
March 2023

Environmental Advocacy in the Future Resource Management System (Summary Document)

by Greg Severinsen
March 2023

Environmental Advocacy in a Future Resource Management System: In a nutshell

by Greg Severinsen
March 2023

Aotearoa New Zealand’s Climate Change Adaptation Act: Building a Durable Future, Principles and Funding for Managed Retreat, Working Paper 1

Raewyn Peart, Jonathan Boston, Sasha Maher and Teresa Konlechner
February 2023

Funding Managed Retreat, Designing a Public Compensation Scheme for Private Property Losses: Policy Issues and Options

Jonathan Boston
February 2023

Science for Policy: The Role of Science in the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management

By Deidre Koolen-Bourke and Raewyn Peart
August 2022

Briefing for the Incoming Minister of Conservation

Environmental Defence Society
June 2022

The Breaking Wave: Oceans Reform in Aotearoa New Zealand

By Greg Severinsen, Raewyn Peart, Bella Rollinson, Tracey Turner and Phoebe Parson
May 2022

The Breaking Wave: Oceans Reform in Aotearoa New Zealand – Summary Report

By Greg Severinsen, Raewyn Peart, Bella Rollinson, Tracey Turner and Phoebe Parson
May 2022

The Breaking Wave: Oceans Reform in Aotearoa New Zealand – Appendices

By Greg Severinsen, Raewyn Peart, Bella Rollinson, Tracey Turner and Phoebe Parson
May 2022

The Breaking Wave: A conversation about reforming the oceans management system in Aotearoa New Zealand – Working Paper

By Greg Severinsen, Raewyn Peart and Bella Rollinson
August 2021

The Breaking Wave: A conversation about reforming the oceans management system in Aotearoa New Zealand – Executive summary of working paper

By Greg Severinsen, Raewyn Peart and Bella Rollinson
August 2021

The Breaking Wave: A conversation about reforming the oceans management system in Aotearoa New Zealand – Appendices of working paper

By Greg Severinsen, Raewyn Peart and Bella Rollinson
August 2021

Conserving Nature: Conservation Reform Issues Paper

By Deidre Koolen-Bourke and Raewyn Peart
July 2021

Caring for the Landscapes of Aotearoa New Zealand

By Raewyn Peart, Cordelia Woodhouse, Shay Schlaepfer, Deidre Koolen-Bourke and Lara Taylor
February 2021

Restoring Te Pātaka o Rākaihautu Banks Peninsula

By Raewyn Peart and Cordelia Woodhouse
February 2021

Protecting the Waitakere Ranges

By Cordelia Woodhouse, Shay Schlaepfer and Raewyn Peart
November 2020

Protecting the Hauraki Gulf islands

By Raewyn Peart and Cordelia Woodhouse
November 2020

Reform of the Resource Management System: The urban context full report

By Greg Severinsen
August 2020

Reform of the Resource Management System: The urban context summary report

By Greg Severinsen
August 2020

Mackenzie Basin & Landscape Protection

By Raewyn Peart and Cordelia Woodhouse
June 2020

Tourism and Landscape Protection

By Raewyn Peart and Cordelia Woodhouse
April 2020

Reform of the Resource Management System: A model for the future: Synthesis Report

By Greg Severinsen
December 2019

Reform of the Resource Management System: A model for the future: Synthesis report (Summary of Proposals)

By Greg Severinsen
December 2019

Reform of the Resource Management System: A Pathway to Reform, Working Paper 2, A model for the future

By Greg Severinsen
October 2019

Healthy Seas: Implementing marine spatial planning in New Zealand

By Kelsey Serjeant and Raewyn Peart
September 2019

Farming the Sea

By Raewyn Peart
August 2019

Reform of the Resource Management System: A Pathway to Reform: Working Paper 1, Criteria for reform

By Greg Severinsen
April 2019

A Review of the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Plantation Forestry) Regulations 2017

By Madeleine Wright, Sally Gepp and David Hall
April 2019

Reform of the Resource Management System: The next generation (Summary)

By Greg Severinsen and Raewyn Peart
February 2019

Governance of the Hauraki Gulf

By Raewyn Peart and Brooke Cox
February 2019

Reform of the Resource Management System: The next generation (full report)

By Greg Severinsen and Raewyn Peart
December 2018

Turning the Tide: integrated marine planning in New Zealand

By Raewyn Peart
November 2018

Reform of the Resource Management System: The next generation (working paper 3)

By Greg Severinsen and Raewyn Peart
September 2018

Reform of the Resource Management System: The next generation (working paper 2)

By Greg Severinsen and Raewyn Peart
August 2018

Voices from the Sea: managing NZ’s fisheries

By Raewyn Peart
May 2018

Reform of the Resource Management System: The next generation (working paper 1)

By Greg Severinsen and Raewyn Peart
April 2018

Banking on Biodiversity

By Marie A Brown
October 2017

Last Line of Defence

By Marie A Brown
May 2017

Evaluating the environmental outcomes of the RMA

By Marie A Brown, Raewyn Peart and Madeleine Wright
June 2016

Pathways to prosperity: Safeguarding biodiversity in development

By Marie Brown
February 2016

Sustainable Seas: Managing the Marine Environment

By Lucy Brake and Raewyn Peart
September 2015

Vanishing nature: Facing New Zealand’s biodiversity crisis

By Marie Brown, R T Theo Stephens, Raewyn Peart and Bevis Fedder
February 2015

Caring for Our Coast

By Lucy Brake and Raewyn Peart
July 2013

Treasuring our biodiversity: An EDS guide to the protection of New Zealand’s indigenous habitats and species

By Lucy Brake and Raewyn Peart
February 2013

Safeguarding our Oceans

By Kate Mulcahy, Raewyn Peart and Abbie Bull
August 2012

Wonders of the Sea: The Protection of New Zealand’s Marine Mammals

By Kate Mulcahy and Raewyn Peart
April 2012

Report of the EDS TAG on the review of Sections 6 & 7 of the RMA 1991

By EDS technical advisory group
April 2012

Managing Freshwater: An EDS Guide

By Raewyn Peart, Kate Mulcahy and Natasha Garvan
March 2012

Governing Our Oceans: Environmental Reform for the EEZ

By Raewyn Peart, Kate Mulcahy and Kelsey Serjeant
April 2011

Strengthening Second Generation Regional Policy Statements: An EDS guide

By Raewyn Peart and Peter Raeburn
March 2011

Managing the marine environment: An EDS Community Guide

By Raewyn Peart and Kate Mulcahy
February 2010

Improving Environmental Governance: The Role of an EPA in New Zealand

By Raewyn Peart
June 2009

Beyond the tide: Integrating the management of New Zealand’s coasts

By Raewyn Peart
February 2009

The Community Guide to Landscape Protection under the Resource Management Act 1991

By Raewyn Peart
May 2005

Landscape Planning Guide For Peri-urban and Rural Areas

By Raewyn Peart
March 2005

Looking out to sea: New Zealand as a model for ocean governance

By Raewyn Peart
February 2005

A Place to Stand

By Raewyn Peart
October 2004