Landscape historian John Adam places on record some of the rich heritage to be found in environmental reports
52 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AOTEAROA
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Landscape historian John Adam places on record some of the rich heritage to be found in environmental reports
Text by John Adam Images from John Adam and Auckland Council Libraries
The previous article [ Landscape Architecture Aotearoa , Spring , 2016 ] focused on the New Zealand career of British communist planner , Arthur G . Ling who visited here over two decades from the mid 1960s presenting lectures and official reports on the reform of the tourist industry .
Supporting this reform were international tools such as Visual Landscape Assessments [ VLA ], Environmental Impact Reports [ EIR ], and the Master Plans [ MP ] that were readily adopted by self-employed consultants and government appointed immigrants and young Lincoln College graduates , such as Harry Turbott , Frank Boffa and Helmut Einhorn .
Einhorn wrote and or contributed to several of the first tourist parks and national park master plans that illustrate the new ideas that focused on specific landscapes such as Wairakei Tourist Park , Mount Cook and Milford Sound .
Two bibliographies that illustrate the depth and diversity of environmental concerns of the age , now rare reports , written through the 1960s and 1970s are Nancy Ellis ( 1975 ) The New Zealand Environment 1968-1974 : A Bibliography published by Nature Conservation Council , Wellington ; and MC Holm ( 1976 ) A Guide to Environmental Law in New Zealand published by the Commission for the Environment . Wellington , Government Printer .
Background to modern environmental anxiety – November 1959 “ Delegates representing twenty five organisations at the scenic preservation conference yesterday unanimously supported a resolution proposed by the ‘ Travel and Holidays Association ’ which called for the establishment of a nature conservancy armed with statutory powers and responsible to Parliament ...” (‘ Nature Conservancy Sought ’ New Zealand Herald , 25 November , 1959 )
The arguments for this generation ’ s environmental