{"id":7859,"date":"2017-02-28T20:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=7859"},"modified":"2017-02-28T20:48:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T20:48:29","slug":"research-into-environmental-compliance-highlights-the-need-for-significant-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=7859","title":{"rendered":"*Research into environmental compliance highlights the need for significant improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has released a new report &#8220;<strong>Last Line of Defence: compliance, monitoring and enforcement of New Zealand&#8217;s environmental law<\/strong>&#8221; by Senior Policy Analyst Dr Marie Brown.<\/p>\n<p>The report is based on research findings from Dr Brown&#8217;s Law Foundation funded project that sought to outline the role and importance of compliance, monitoring and enforcement; to present a fair and accurate picture of current practice; and to use that information to highlight innovations and improvements.<\/p>\n<p>This report builds on two earlier EDS research reports concerned with preserving biodiversity, also by Dr Brown and funded by the Law Foundation:<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eds.org.nz\/our-work\/publications\/books\/vanishing-nature-facing-new-zealands-biodiversity\/\">Vanishing Nature \u2013 facing New Zealand&#8217;s biodiversity crisis<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eds.org.nz\/our-work\/publications\/books\/pathways-to-prosperity\/\">Pathways to Prosperity \u2013 Safeguarding biodiversity in development<\/a>.<\/h5>\n<p><\/br><br \/>\nFurther information about the current research report &#8220;Last Line of Defence \u2013 compliance, monitoring and enforcement on New Zealand&#8217;s environmental law&#8221;:<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eds.org.nz\/our-work\/publications\/books\/last-line-of-defence\/\">Acquiring a hard-copy from EDS<\/a><\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lawfoundation.org.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/2016_43_2_Last-Line-of-Defence-FINAL-research-report-embargoed-till-5pm-28.2.2017.pdf\">120 page PDF of report<\/a><\/h5>\n<h4>The Law Foundation has granted up to $62,500 towards this research, and the dissemination of it.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Defence Society (EDS) has released a new report &#8220;Last Line of Defence: compliance, monitoring and enforcement of New Zealand&#8217;s environmental law&#8221; by Senior Policy Analyst Dr Marie Brown. The report is based on research findings from Dr Brown&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/?p=7859\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7859"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7868,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7859\/revisions\/7868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawfoundation.org.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}