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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)

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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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]

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Title 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)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/2d5ff936-244a-408e-8488-a2a15c4d5076
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Australian Ocean Data Network
allan.dale@jcu.edu.au
Reference Period 01/02/2023 -
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "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)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/nesp-mac-project-3-1-regional-planning-in-northern-australia-building-a-community-of-practice-a