Executive summary: legislation
Status 2007
Ecologically sustainable development is achieved through a vast range of approaches from education programs to strategic partnerships. The legislative and non-legislative environmental and coastal management strategies implemented to manage the pressures on and protect or improve the condition of the environment have been identified above in each of the main themes of the report. In this chapter, an evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of strategies implemented to achieve the objects of the Environmental Protection Act 1994 and the Coastal Protection and Management Act 1995 has been undertaken. This assessment has been done in the context that these two pieces of legislation are part of a large suite of environmental law at an international, national and state level. It has shown that these legislative strategies have contributed to ecologically sustainable development through four environmental strategies: setting standards, assessment and approvals, compliance and enforcement, and reporting.
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