Week 3 - AEE

The RMA adopts a more enabling approach which seeks only to intervene where activities are likely to result in unacceptable environmental impacts.   

This approach has the advantage of focusing on the reduction of environmental impacts. It can also, however, result in environmental planning being reactive rather than proactive, in plans being complex and difficult to understand, and in poor management of cumulative and diffuse impacts (image www.fmcgnews.co.uk)