Journal article
The good, the bad, and the statutory: are statutory or non-statutory natural resource management plans higher in quality?
Journal of environmental policy & planning, Vol.19(6), pp.668-681
02/11/2017
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Abstract
Numerous governments around the world have adopted statutory mandates on plan content based on the assumption that they lead to greater consistency and higher quality of plans. While a number of studies have examined the relationship between mandates to develop plans and plan quality, there has been limited study of the influence of state mandates for plan content on plan quality in a regional natural resource management (NRM) planning context. This paper explores the relationship between the quality of regional NRM plans between statutory and non-statutory NRM regions in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia. An analysis of 22 regional NRM plans indicates that there is no evidence of a relationship between plan quality and the presence of statutory mandates for regional NRM plans in New South Wales and Queensland. However, the paper identifies and discusses several other factors with unexpected relationships with an impact on the quality of NRM plans in New South Wales and Queensland, Australia.
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- Title
- The good, the bad, and the statutory: are statutory or non-statutory natural resource management plans higher in quality?
- Creators
- Ruth Potts - Southern Cross University
- Publication Details
- Journal of environmental policy & planning, Vol.19(6), pp.668-681
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Identifiers
- 991012926983802368
- Academic Unit
- School of Environment, Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article