Environmental Science, Yes The Regional Services monitoring Monitoring Activity and provides information investigations on the current state of all natural resources and identifies trends. Data is gathered and used to investigate current environmental issues, analyse the effectiveness of plans and policies, assess the region's performance against national standards and guidelines and enable sound resource management decisions. RMA s35 requires all councils to gather information and commission research necessary to carry “as out” its RMA functions. Monitoring and research is integrated across multiple RC functions, including administrative information (e.g. resource consent processing times) through to sophisticated state of
Environmental Services Science, monitoring and investigations Yes The Regional Monitoring Activity provides information on the current state of all natural resources and identifies trends. Data is gathered and used to investigate current environmental issues, analyse the effectiveness of plans and policies, assess the region's performance against national standards and guidelines and enable sound resource management decisions. RMA s35 requires all councils to gather information and commission research “as necessary to carry out” its RMA functions. Monitoring and research is integrated across multiple RC functions, including administrative information (e.g. resource consent processing times) through to sophisticated state of
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