Marta Karlik-Neale moved to the Netherlands recently. She says that in some areas of New Zealand we will have to learn to live with water the way Dutch do. This includes accepting higher costs of water management.
On March 20 this year, the Dutch elected new representatives to manage water in their constantly flood-threatened country....
Central & local government roles
The Policy Observatory at Auckland University of Technology has a series of publications on some local government governance issues, which diagnose problems and suggest solutions. In particular, the authors ask what the role for local government is and question how to get the central/local mix...
Legal framework unfit to cope with costs of sea level rise.
So much for the debate on whether climate change is real. Now we must decide how to pay for it. I am no expert on climate change but I have little time for the sceptics and there is no doubt that the time for action is upon us. At the end of January LGNZ, as part of its Climate...
SOLGM CEO Karen Thomas reflects on the 2018 local government year and predicts what the incumbent government will bring about next.
This time last year I wrote a similar predictions piece against a backdrop of a newly-elected parliament, a change of government (in some ways unexpected) and a policy community coming to grips with what it...
Infrastructure, funding, regional development and civic participation will be priorities for 2018, while the four wellbeings could be reinstated.
The Hon Nanaia Mahuta, Minister for Local Government.
E nga mana, e nga reo, tatou katoa – Tena koutou.
As the new Minister of Local Government this is an opportunity to foreshadow my...
By Peter Silcock, chief executive, Civil Contractors New Zealand
The national surge in infrastructure investment and election promises to invest more are good news for us all. However, most of the new investments and promises are focused on transport while our ageing three waters infrastructure is increasingly becoming the poor...
Urban stormwater is often referred to as the “poor cousin” of the three waters, with limited funding available compared to water and wastewater. The exception to this seems to be in the years immediately following local flooding events, when funding becomes available for stormwater and flood mitigation works, often for a limited...
