This course will provide information to planners to assist them with decision making to address land use planning in areas of coastal inundation, including the impact of climate change and sea level rise. The course will address the following:
Learning Outcomes:
Nigel Mark-Brown
Nigel
Mark-Brown is a consulting engineer specialising in the environmental
effects of development and associated discharges of contaminants to
ground and surface water. He is also experienced in stormwater and flood
management and in surface and groundwater resource management. Nigel
has prepared assessments of environmental effects for a range of
proposed developments and urban infrastructure projects. He has
completed the Making Good Decisions training for resource consent
hearing commissioners and has been a commissioner for a number of
resource consent hearings including for stormwater disposal, flood
management and wastewater treatment and disposal. He teaches a course on
assessing environmental effects and change as part of the Post graduate
Diploma in Science in Environmental Management at the University of
Auckland.
Robert Scott
Robert has been practising since 1992 and has a wide range of experience
in all aspects of the resource management process. His skills include
the management of large or complex consent applications and he has
specialist skills and experience in affordable housing projects,
subdivision and development of Special Housing Areas, subdivision
projects, coastal planning projects and projects that are located in
sensitive or rural receiving environments.
Robert is often called upon as an expert planning witness before
Council and Environment Court hearings and has achieved certification
(with merit) as a commissioner under the Ministry for the Environment's
Good Decisions programme.