Health and social impact assessment of the South East Queensland Regional Plan (2005-2026).

Regulatory and Incentive Mechanisms to implement Transit Oriented Development (TOD) in South East Queensland

The Queensland Government recently released a statutory planning document South East Queensland Regional Plan 2005-2026 to manage the rapid growth of its south east region. One of the strategies identified in the document is to establish a number of transit-oriented developments (TODs) to create compact, walkable communities around high capacity public transport nodes. The objective of the pape...

Re-thinking How We Plan to Address Technically Complex Problems: Drawing on Planning Theory to Guide Practice in Revision of Land Use Plans in Coastal High Hazard Zones

Queensland's new State Planning Policy for Coastal Protection, released in March and approved in April 2011 as part of the Queensland Coastal Plan, stipulates that local governments prepare and implement adaptation strategies for built up areas projected to be subject to coastal hazards between present day and 2100. Local governments with lands within the delineated coastal high hazard zone (as...

Harnessing the Potential to Quantify Public Preferences for Healthcare Priorities through Citizens’ Juries

Despite progress towards greater public engagement, questions about the optimal approach to access public preferences remain unanswered. We review two increasingly popular methods for engaging the public in healthcare priority-setting and determining their preferences; the Citizens’ Jury (CJ) and Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE). We discuss the theoretical framework from which each method is de...

An equity-focussed social impact assessment of the Lower Hunter Regional Strategy.

The Lower Hunter Regional Strategy prepared by the Hunter Department of Planning identifies how development in the region will be managed on a sustainable basis over the next 25 years. In order to inform decision-makers about the potential social and health impacts arising from the proposed population increase, the Hunter Regional Coordination Management Group, in collaboration with the NSW Pre...

Public Participation: Methods Matter; A Response to Boaz et al.