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New Zealand’s land use management for disaster mitigation is based on the idea of the sustainable management of natural and human resources, and disaster is considered one of the natural environment factors. The current framework was formulated with the enforcement of restructure of the governments, law reform, and privatization of public service, and decentralization of power provides local governments with the authority to implement land use management for disaster mitigation. In this chapter, New Zealand’s land use management for disaster mitigation is analyzed, and issues are discussed from the perspective of legal and administrative framework. It is found out that understanding of natural hazard and risks makes it useful in land use planning and management to control developments.
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Banba, M. (2017). Land Use Management Along Fault Line: Experiences of New Zealand. In: Banba, M., Shaw, R. (eds) Land Use Management in Disaster Risk Reduction. Disaster Risk Reduction. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-56442-3_5
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