Sep 4, 2013 | Deliberative, Planning, Stakeholder engagement, Sustainability
Sydney bus drivers and bike riders came together at a workshop devised as the final stage of social research on their experience of road use, as small and manoeuvrable and large less manoeuvrable forms of transportation which travel at very different speeds. Material...
May 24, 2013 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, Stakeholder engagement
IAP2 notified me this week that an abstract I submitted for their annual conference was up on Survey Monkey and I should vote for my preferences in a chosen stream … and because I had an abstract in of course I had to take a look! But once my voting was over I...
Apr 12, 2013 | Community Engagement, Deliberative, People, place & governance, Planning, Stakeholder engagement
New from the blogs …. a great piece from Project for Public Spaces on place governance. “Stronger Citizens, Stronger Cities: Changing Governance Through a Focus on Place” states that some elements that can shape stronger places are: Affirmative...
Oct 15, 2010 | Community Engagement, It's cultural!, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Stakeholder engagement, Translating the scientific stuff
It’s quite difficult to entice a reader into a book about Climate Change – there’s something so leaden and laden about statistics and science and dispute and above all virtue. So I decided humour would have to help me through. – Ian Mackewan on...
Apr 18, 2010 | Deliberative, Joint effort - climate adaptation, Planning, Stakeholder engagement
Where’s the Campaspe River? In Northern Victoria, Australia. When it comes to water for irrigated agriculture, climate scenarios for the state have never been good. You can’t farm without water. Two weeks ago a massive group of over 100 Campaspe farmers...
