Reconceptualising the Role of the New Zealand Environment Court

Warnock, Ceri Ailsa

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“…US$2.9bn) over four years for the Climate Emergency Response Fund, while largely ignoring emissions and environmental degradation from industries such as agriculture and fishing that impact native fauna (RNZ, 2021;Treasury, 2021;Stats NZ, 2021a). New Zealand's conservation governance also includes the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), an Environment Court, and agencies to regulate the fishing industry (Warnock, 2014). While local entities have had regulatory and implementation authority over other environmental issues and policiesincluding resource management, flood control, air and water quality, pest control, regional parks, and, in specific cases, public transportation-proposals to change water regulation are in process, primarily arising from failures to protect human health (LGNZ, nd).…”

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The politics of animal extinction and conservation: Interests, framing, and policy

Armoudian

Poulsen

2023

Journal of Political Ecology

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Why do conservation policies fail to prevent species extinctions and die-offs in contravention of stated intentions and goals? Bringing together a range of literature, including political ecology, political theory, conservation science, communication theory, environmental communication, with original data, this article explores this question, then addresses these failures within Aotearoa New Zealand's context. Using the New Zealand case, it offers a systems-level view of these failures, focusing on the influences and limitations that arise from the political-economic structures, fractured governance, interest group influence, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in representative democracies. Secondly, in these settings, we argue that communication and framing by the interested parties—politicians, government officials, interest groups and NGOs—buttress this system, partly by normalizing it, obscuring scientific realities, shifting focus away from deeper issues, and thus limiting the possibility of substantive solutions in what might be called a colonization of consciousness. Together, this economic-political-communication complex has failed to prevent—and in some ways aided—mass die-offs of native animal species. The article then suggests exploring alternative models, such as deliberative democracy, to this seemingly intractable problem, to strengthen the influence of scientific expertise, better inform decision-makers, advance public understandings of science, and improve democracy by engaging members of the public in decision-making processes. While this study focuses on New Zealand, the issues related to political ecology, the political-economic systems, and the framing of issues, apply to many democratic countries.

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Section: Environmental Governancementioning

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The politics of animal extinction and conservation: Interests, framing, and policy

Armoudian

Poulsen

2023

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…The Law Commission of India made a very persuasive case for the establishment of national environmental courts in India [38]. Australia and New Zealand already have environmental courts [39,40].…”

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Potential Contribution of Sponsoring State and Its National Legislation to the Deep Seabed Mining Regime

Xue

2021

Sustainability

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Companies and legal persons intending to conduct activities in the Area must be sponsored by a State Party of the UNCLOS, which constitute a “dual-track mechanism” with ISA as a primary regulator and sponsoring state as a secondary regulator. This regime setting places companies and legal persons subject to international and national legislation simultaneously. The sponsoring state’s national legislation is thus an integrated part of the DSM regime. This resolves the defects that private entities in DSM are not subject to international law and weak enforcement of international organizations. However, UNCLOS neither draws a clear line of competence between the sponsoring state and the ISA nor provides compulsory components that national legislation should contain, resulting in the disparity between the objective of the establishment of sponsorship and the status quo of the sponsoring state’s role and its national legislation. This paper analyzes the competence of a sponsoring state and regulatory aspects it should focus on to assist the ISA and further proposes such components of the national legislation contributing to the DSM regime.

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“…Individuals may require changes to the plans, and the Resource Management Act specifically authorizes the Court to confirm, correct or cancel regional / district plans. In fact, the Ecological Court today is the only court in New Zealand that has the right: 1) to amend or abolish subordinate legislation [20]; 2) to agree on the use of natural resources (for example, use of land, coastal strips, water supply and drainage, granting of permits for discharges of pollutants); 3) meet the requirements for the termination of environmentally harmful activities, ensuring compliance with environmental requirements, restoration of the disturbed state of the environment; 4) issue declarations to determine the legal status of environmental measures and instruments; 5) to declare the presence or absence of contradictions between the provisions of various political declarations, management decisions, plans or programs on environmental protection, etc. [21].…”

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“…The court has the right to make a retrial decision on the basis of decisions of local and regional authorities and is empowered to carry out civil and criminal proceedings in matters relating to the environment. Within execution of its jurisdiction, the Ecological Court has the status and authority of the ordinary court of first instance, but does not adhere the usual procedural and evidence formalities of the other New Zealand courts [20].…”

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Ecological Court as the Guarantee of Protection of Rights of Human and Citizens

Yuliia¹,

Deineha²,

Honcharuk³

et al. 2019

THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN

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Б а с р е д а к т о р ы х. ғ. д., проф., ҚР ҰҒА академигі М. Ж. Жұрынов Р е д а к ц и я а л қ а с ы:Р.Ш. проф. (Ресей) Абишев М.Е. проф., корр.-мүшесі (Қазақстан) Аврамов К.В. проф. (Украина) Аппель Юрген проф. (Германия) Баймуқанов Д.А. проф., корр.-мүшесі (Қазақстан) Байтулин И.О. проф., академик (Қазақстан) Банас Иозеф проф. (Польша) Берсимбаев Р.И. проф., академик (Қазақстан) Велесько С. проф. (Германия) Велихов Е.П. проф., РҒА академигі (Ресей) Гашимзаде Ф. проф., академик (Əзірбайжан) Гончарук В.В. проф., академик (Украина) Давлетов А.Е. проф., корр.-мүшесі (Қазақстан) Джрбашян Р.Т. проф., академик (Армения) Қалимолдаев М.Н. проф., академик (Қазақстан), бас ред. орынбасары Лаверов Н.П. проф., академик РАН (Россия) Лупашку Ф. проф., корр.-мүшесі (Молдова) Мохд Хасан Селамат проф. (Малайзия) Мырхалықов Ж.У. проф., академик (Қазақстан) Новак Изабелла проф. (Польша) Огарь Н.П. проф., корр.-мүшесі (Қазақстан) Полещук О.Х. проф. (Ресей) Поняев А.И. проф. (Ресей) Сагиян А.С. проф., академик (Армения) Сатубалдин С.С. проф., академик (Қазақстан) Таткеева Г.Г. проф., корр.-мүшесі (Қазақстан) Умбетаев И. проф., академик (Қазақстан) Хрипунов Г.С. проф. (Украина) Юлдашбаев Ю.А. проф., РҒА корр-мүшесі (Ресей) Якубова М.М. проф., академик (Тəжікстан) «Қазақстан Республикасы Ұлттық ғылым академиясының Хабаршысы».

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Reconceptualising the Role of the New Zealand Environment Court

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The politics of animal extinction and conservation: Interests, framing, and policy

The politics of animal extinction and conservation: Interests, framing, and policy

Potential Contribution of Sponsoring State and Its National Legislation to the Deep Seabed Mining Regime

Ecological Court as the Guarantee of Protection of Rights of Human and Citizens

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