Institute of Environmental Science and Research

The Institute of Environmental Science & Research Limited ( ESR) is one of eight New Zealand Crown Research Institute.

The Institute has the task to develop science-based solutions in the areas of health, environmental health and forensic services and to offer appropriate counseling performance. Research contracts are essentially of the two state entities, the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology ( MoRST ) (Ministry of Research, Science and Technology) and the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology ( FRST ) ( Foundation for Research, Science and Technology ), but also from the private sector and in some cases even from overseas.

Seat

The headquarters of the Institute is located in Wellington. In addition to the Kenepuru Science Centre in Wellington, the ESR operates three other research centers distributed across the country: a) Mount Albert Science Centre in Auckland, b ) the Christchurch Science Centre, Christchurch and the ESR NCBID - Wallace Ville in Upper Hutt.

History

In the 1980s the New Zealand government began the research and science to restructure. In 1989, for the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology created (Ministry of Research, Science and Technology) with the aim to advise the government to prepare decision-making processes to prioritize resources allocations and introduce the performance review. But that's not enough. They wanted to create separate institutions that should do business independently and autonomously under government supervision and would then do under these conditions with its own rules and guidelines performance-related public and private sector jobs for a variety of tasks.

With the Crown Research Institutes Act 1992 ten Crown Research Institutes were established for this purpose, first, one of which still exist today, eight institutes. ESR is one.

With the Companies Act 1993, all institutions were converted to limited liability companies ( Limited). The ESR is today, like all other Crown Research Institutes also, the Crown Company Unit ( controlling and advisory department ) Ministry of Finance and the Minister responsible for Research, Science and Technology assumed. Both the responsible Ministers are also interestingly always registered as a shareholder in each of the eight Crown Research Institutes.