Conservation strategies for New Zealand / Peter Hartley
By: Hartley, P.R. (Peter Reginald).
Material type: BookPublisher: Wellington, N.Z. : New Zealand Business Roundtable, 1997Description: xiv, 526 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1877148326 (pbk.).Subject(s): CONSERVATION | NEW ZEALAND | POLICIES | MĀORI | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | NATURAL RESOURCES | ECONOMICSHoldings: GRETA POINT: 502/504(931) HARItem type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 483-496) and index.
1. Introduction -- Other important issues relating to conservation in New Zealand -- Our approach to the topic – 2. Markets, policy & voluntary activity -- Markets & the environment -- Property rights & the law -- Political action -- Voluntary action – Appendix 1 - Substitution & incentives, key economic concepts – Appendix 2 - Natural monopolies & government ownership – Appendix 3 - A brief economic analysis of "over-fishing" – 3. Goals of conservation policy in New Zealand -- Definition of conservation in the Act -- What is intrinsic value? -- Attempting to implement an intrinsic value conservation ethic -- Maximising the total value of resources -- Biodiversity as a measure of what people value -- Ecological states as the valued items -- Alternative resource use in conservation areas -- Conservation in areas of alternative resource use -- Pest control programs – 4. Achieving conservation goals -- Tourism & recreation -- Instrumental, or indirect use, values -- Achieving conservation goals in concert with other activities -- Some effects of conservation area access charges – 5. Private involvement in conservation -- Planted forests in New Zealand - unintended conservation outputs -- Examples of private conservation activities in New Zealand -- Seal Rocks Pty Ltd - a different type of eco-tourism venture -- The Bookmark Biosphere Reserve in Australia -- Earth Sanctuaries Ltd – 6. Net conservation value trades -- Net conservation value trades in a market situation -- Bartering within a political resource allocation context -- Developing a framework for net conservation trades -- Multiple land use, sequential land use & offsets -- Net conservation trades & mining -- Case studies of net conservation trades -- Mining in conservation areas in Australia – 7. The structure & performance of DOC -- Reform of the structure of DOC -- Measuring the performance of DOC – 8. Maori development & conservation policy -- Maori economic development -- An analysis of anti-discrimination & welfare policy responses -- The role of property rights -- Supporting the Maori renaissance – 9. Historic & cultural heritage -- Categories of cultural heritage -- Institutional reform of cultural heritage conservation -- Multiple use of heritage resources – 10. Summary of policy recommendations -- Changes to the structure of the Department of Conservation -- Reclassification of land areas managed by DOC -- Reform of DOC financing -- Encouraging more private conservation)
"Conservation strategies for New Zealand" is concerned with economics and politics as well as conservation and ecology ... Many factors influence the effectiveness of government institutions in achieving desirable results in conservation. Practical, moderate reforms to existing institutions will smooth the transition to better arrangements for preserving New Zealand's environment.
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