Legislation aimed at protecting New Zealand's environment and natural resources has undergone countless reforms to better fit the various discourses surrounding environmental management. In Simin Davoudi's (2012) reading “Climate Risk and Security: New Meanings of “the Environment” in the English Planning System”, Davoudi discusses that the environment can be seen in a number of different ways, such as local amenity, heritage, landscape, natural reserve, as a storehouse of resources, as a marketable commodity, as a problem, as sustainability and as a risk (Davoudi, 2012). While Davoudi's typology refers to aspects of New Zealand's environmental management paradigms, it fails to include some important aspects such as Indigenous and community inclusion. Davoudi's (2012) typology can provide future guidance in the discussion of the environment as risk. Davoudi's (2012) typology of environmental management discusses eight distinct meanings of environment that are incorporated into today's planning system. The new discourse involved in environmental management has meant that the environment is seen in different ways. And as a result, the meanings attributed to the environment have changed substantially over time (Davoudi, 2012). Davoudi (2012) argues that environmental management is limited by limited definitions of the environment, and the onset of climate change and the discourse surrounding it has meant that perceptions of the environment have been shaped (Davoudi, 2012). The first definition offered is that of local amenity, which explains that aesthetic and recreational values ​​are associated with the environment. The next is the environment as landscape heritage, which sees the environment as... half of the document ......l Management, 103-114. The Chair: Cabinet Policy Committee. (n.d.). Planning for the effects of climate change: the role of resource management law. Office of the Convenor, Ministerial Group on Climate Change, Office of the Minister for the Environment. Tyson, B., Panelli, R., & Robertson, G. (2011). Integrated watershed management in New Zealand: a field report on communication efforts in the Taieri River watershed. Applied environmental education and communication, 73-80. Valentine, I., Hurley, E., Reid, J., & Allen, W. (2007). Principles and processes for effecting change in environmental management in New Zealand. Journal of Environmental Management, 311-318.Wilcock, D. A. (2013). From empty spaces to life flows: transforming community engagement in environmental decision-making and its implications for local reality. Political studies 34:4, 455-473.