NESP MaC Project 3.1 - Regional planning in northern Australia: Building a community of practice and sentinel case studies for supporting improved approaches to achieve ESD, 2023-2024 (JCU)

This record provides an overview of the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub small-scale study - "Regional planning in northern Australia: Building a community of practice and sentinel case studies for supporting improved approaches to achieve ESD".

This project grows momentum from NESP MAC Hub Project 1.32, which engaged northern Australians on the need for improved regional planning to deliver Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) outcomes. Project 1.32 identified Stage 2 investment to build: (i) a strong regional planning community of practice across the north; and (ii) three longer-standing sentinel case studies for improving regional planning practice within northern regions (WA, NT and Qld). In a methodological sense, the northern Australian community of practice will build on the network foundations established in Project 1.32, and will focus on scanning best practice approaches across the north, exploring innovative ways to communicate these approaches, and ensuring the network is strengthened through regular newsletters and targeted symposiums. The sentinel case study approach will inform policy and practice improvement at the jurisdictional and Commonwealth scales, and will apply Governance Systems Analysis approaches developed under previous NERP and NESP investments. This innovative method employs highly deliberative and evidence-based approaches to the practical analysis of complex governance systems in highly contested landscapes like northern Australia.

Given the emerging Commonwealth focus on regional planning effort based on the Samuel review, this project represents perfect timing to focus on best practice, including knowledge management, as well as the opportunity to support emerging Commonwealth, State and Territory efforts regarding these reforms. It particularly addresses the headline issue identified in the MaC Hub 2023 Research Plan which seeks to “address the governance requirements and barriers for regional planning nationally”. This particularly includes an emphasis on northern Australia (i.e. de-risking landscapes).

Planned Outputs

• Case Study Governance Analysis [dataset]

• Final technical report with analysed data and a short summary of recommendations for policy makers of key findings [written]

Identification info

Date (Creation): 2023-02-22T00:00:00Z

Cited responsible party

Role	Organisation	Name	Telephone	Delivery point	City	Administrative area	Postal code	Country	Electronic mail address
Principal investigator	James Cook University	Allan Dale							allan.dale@jcu.edu.au

Credit: This project was funded by the Australian Government's Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water through the National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub with co-investment from project partners and collaborators.

Status: Under development

Point of contact

Role	Organisation	Name	Telephone	Delivery point	City	Administrative area	Postal code	Country	Electronic mail address
Point of contact	James Cook University	Allan Dale							allan.dale@jcu.edu.au

Topic category

Society

Extent

Description: Project extent

Temporal extent

Time period: 2023-02-01 2024-06-30T00:00:00Z

Keywords (dataSource)

National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal (NESP MaC) hub

Keywords (Theme)

marine

Resource constraints

Classification: Unclassified

Resource constraints

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Cited responsible party

Role	Organisation	Name	Telephone	Delivery point	City	Administrative area	Postal code	Country	Electronic mail address
Principal investigator

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License Text

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor contact

Role	Organisation	Name	Telephone	Delivery point	City	Administrative area	Postal code	Country	Electronic mail address
Publisher	Australian Institute of Marine Science	eAtlas Data Manager	Voice	PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE	Townsville	Queensland	4810	Australia	e-atlas@aims.gov.au

OnLine resource: Project page

OnLine resource: NESP Marine and Coastal Hub website

OnLine resource: Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water - National Environmental Science Program website

Metadata

Metadata identifier: urn:uuid/975590b5-c481-4f40-939a-77b5c9bfa35d

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Contact

Role	Organisation	Name	Telephone	Delivery point	City	Administrative area	Postal code	Country	Electronic mail address
Point of contact	Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)	eAtlas Data Manager	Voice	PRIVATE MAIL BAG 3, TOWNSVILLE MAIL CENTRE	Townsville	Queensland	4810	Australia	e-atlas@aims.gov.au