Planning for disasters.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1989Description: 6 p. : illSubject(s): Subject: The theme of this article is that in many cases New Zealand planners have stopped short of categorically forbidding development, when they should have done so. Instead there has been a tendency to try and obviate the possible dangers from disasters by incorporating warnings and/or conditions into planning schemes. Four specific cases are examined, the Palmeston North Floods of July 1988, the Northland Floods of 1981, the Taihape hazard zone and the foreshore development at Raumati.
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Reprinted from Planning Quarterly; Vol 93; p. 14-19
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The theme of this article is that in many cases New Zealand planners have stopped short of categorically forbidding development, when they should have done so. Instead there has been a tendency to try and obviate the possible dangers from disasters by incorporating warnings and/or conditions into planning schemes. Four specific cases are examined, the Palmeston North Floods of July 1988, the Northland Floods of 1981, the Taihape hazard zone and the foreshore development at Raumati.
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