
1. Introduction: Are the Offences in the Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA)Working?.- 2. The Context for the Enquiry: Regulation and the RMA.- 3. Theoretical Framework: Compliance, Enforcement, Sanctions and the Criminal Law.- 4. Failing the First Test: The Offences are not...

This book provides a critical study of environmental regulation and its enforcement in New Zealand, situated within green criminology. It seeks to address the question of whether the offences in the Resource Management Act 1991 are 'working', by drawing on a range of sources...