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Land-use planning and environmental asssessment Biodiversity is often adversely affected by planning and development decisions and actions.

A procedure known as Integrated Environmental Management (IEM) incorporate the environmental considerations of development proposals within the planning process. Environmental Impact assessment (EIA) is a step within the IEM procedure. IEM is a useful tool for minimising the adverse impacts of development on biodiversity.

Initiatives supported by Government, in collaboration with relevant interested and affected parties:

    Support the adoption of a bioregional approach to planning.
    Support the incorporation of IEM principles into all planning controls and legislation
    Ensure that potential impacts on biodiversity are assessed and reflected in planning processes and environmental assessments. Decision-making must avoid impacts, minimise risks and mitigate adverse impacts where possible
    Investigate, formulate and implement integrated land-use planning approaches that include multiple natural resource activities which are compatible with and which complement the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.
    Integrate consideration of the cumulative and secondary impacts on biological diversity of development proposals, and the reversibility of proposed actions over time, into regional planning processes and environmental impact assessment procedures.
    Ensure that potential impacts of projects, programmes, plans and policies on biodiversity are assessed in an integrated manner and by competent professionals.