Recreation Resource Management
A Longitudinal Study into Local Responses to Recreation Resource Management for the ‘Conservation Economy’- from ‘Social Good Cost’ to ‘Economic Investment’
Presenter:
Jeff Dalley
Date:
30 July, 2010 12:00
Location:
WH418, WH Building, AUT Wellesley Campus 
Abstract: The New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC) Statement of Intent 2009-2012 explicitly adopts – for the first time – the central premise “…that conservation is an economic investment, not simply a ‘social good’ cost…” because “…sound management of our natural areas produces the life-sustaining ecosystem services on which our lifestyle and prosperity depend.” The key imperative of the Statement of Intent is to give meaning to the term, ‘the conservation economy’, by achieving social, economic and environmental gains from “…the interdependen
