Urban sustainability in New Zealand
Subtitle: proceedings of a workshop sponsored by the Royal Society of New Zealand, the New Zealand National Commission for UNESCO, and the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment held at the Royal Society, October 1998.
Contributors: Royal Society of New Zealand.; New Zealand. National Commission for Unesco.; New Zealand. Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.
Series: Miscellaneous series / Royal Society of New Zealand,; 53; Miscellaneous series (Royal Society of New Zealand) ;; no. 53.
Publisher: Royal Society of New Zealand
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Wellington, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Urban ecology -- New Zealand -- Congresses; Sustainable development -- New Zealand -- Congresses; City planning -- New Zealand -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This report contains the papers presented at a workshop on urban sustainability in New Zealand, held at the Royal Society of New Zealand, October 1998.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Eight papers and three workshop discussions.
Table of contents: title: Urban sustainability - the basis for a renewed urban planning and management project? / Harvey C. Perkins & David C Thorns; title: Social sciences research and urban sustainability / Phil Hughes; title: Urban planning in New Zealand : the influences of the Resource Management Act and the Local Government Act / Harvey C. Perkins & David C. Thorns; title: The view of urban issues from the Foresight Project : notes from a work in progress / Roland Sapsford; title: Sustainable cities : the social drivers / Kay Saville-Smith; title: Economic drivers and relationships with urban environments / Craig Millar and Richard Le Heron; title: Environmental drivers and relationships with urban environments / John L. Craig; title: Summary and wrap-up /J. Morgan Williams.