Implementing Sustainability: The New Zealand Experience

Beginning with the 1991 Resource Management Act, which integrated the concept of sustainability into resource planning and management, argues Miller (resource and environmental planning, Massey U. New Zealand), New Zealand has proved to be an ideal testing ground for instituting such measures. She details the practical issues that arise from the perspective of planners, and the various dimensions in which solutions are sought and interests considered. Among her topics are institutions and processes for implementing sustainability by legislation, urban planning and the built environment, energy and infrastructure, and lessons learned. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Caroline L. Miller is a senior lecturer in the Resource and Environmental Planning Programme at Massey University in Palmerston North where her teaching focuses on planning practice. She was a planning practitioner for some 15 years and is a Councillor of the New Zealand Planning Institute from which she received a Distinguished Service Award in 2007.