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Title

Conservation strategies for New Zealand / Peter Hartley.

Author

Hartley, Peter R.

Publication

Wellington, N.Z. : New Zealand Business Roundtable, 1997.

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New Zealand Business Roundtable.

Description

xiv, 526 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• New Zealand. Department of Conservation > Management
• Conservation of natural resources > New Zealand
• Environmental policy > New Zealand
• Environmental economics > New Zealand
• Environmental impact charges > New Zealand

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-496) and index.

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• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction (Other important issues relating to conservation in New Zealand ; Our approach to the topic) -- Markets, policy & voluntary activity (Markets & the environment ; Property rights & the law ; Political action ; Voluntary action ; Appendices (Substitution & incentives, key economic concepts ; Natural monopolies & government ownership ; A brief economic analysis of "over-fishing")) -- Goals of conservation policy in New Zealand (Definition of conservation in the Act ; What is intrinsic valu? ; Attempting to implement an intrinsic value conservation ethic ; Maximising the total vale 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- 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) -- The structure & performance of DOC (Reform of the structure of DOC ; Measuring the performance of DOC)
• Maori development & conservation policy (Maori economic development ; An analysis of anti-discrimination & welfare policy responses ; The role of property rights ; Supporting the Maori renaissance) -- Historic & cultural heritage (Categorties of cultural heritage ; Institutional reform of cultural heritage conservation ; Multiple use of heritage resources) -- 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).
• 1. Introduction -- 2. Markets, politics and voluntary activity -- 3. Goals of conservation policy in New Zealand -- 4. Achieving conservation goals -- 5. Private involvement in conservation -- 6. Net conservation value trades -- 7. The structure and performance of DOC -- 8. Maori development and conservation policy -- 9. Historica and cultural heritage -- 10. Summary of policy recommendations.

ISBN

1877148326 (pbk.) :

OCLC

41451355

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