National guidelines for crime prevention through environmental design in New Zealand - Part 2 [pdf, 1008 KB]
...promote the sustainable management of natural and physical resources’ (s5(1)). In exercising their functions and powers, local authorities must ensure that this purpose is realised. Sustainable management means ‘managing the use, development, and protection of natural and physical resources in a way, or at a rate, which enables people and communities to provide for their social, economic, and cultural wellbeing and for their health and safety while (among other things) avoiding, remed...