Christchurch City Update 2000 is the fifth
report on the state of the City’s environment. It is a non-technical, descriptive
report designed to provide community representatives, decision makers and the wider
community with up-to-date information on Christchurch’s demographic, environmental
and economic trends and issues.
Topics included in this report are
those known to be of interest to Christchurch people. They have been identified through
ongoing consultation and discussion with a range of Council staff, elected members and the
general public. A wide variety of other local and international monitoring programmes have
also influenced the form and content of this report.
Christchurch City Update 2000 is
produced as part of the Council’s State of the Environment Monitoring Programme which
was initiated during the mid-1990s. The programme was developed in response to the
requirement under the Resource Management Act (1991) for territorial local authorities to
monitor their environments. It has also been driven by the increasing need within local
government for accurate information for decision making and policy development, and the
community’s growing appetite for information about the wider environment.
