Planning & Policy

Miss Joanne Ludbrook, Mr Craig  Perry 1Peron Naturaliste Partnership, Falcon, Australia Abstract The Peron Naturaliste Partnership is collaboration of nine local governments working together in a regional approach to coastal climate change adaptation from Cape Peron to Cape Naturaliste in...

Professor Bruce Thom Abstract There are many components to coastal management, but the one that I find most intriguing is the intervention (or non-intervention) of politics. At national, state and local levels of government, political dynamics create situations that can...

Ms Maree Fudge1 1University Of Tasmania, West Hobart, Australia Abstract Citizen involvement and participation has become a central tenet of integrated marine and coastal zone management and is increasingly demanded by community members with high stakes in the coast and...

Dr Beverley Clarke1, Ms Patricia von Baumgarten2 1Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, 2SA Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources , Adelaide , Australia Abstract South Australia’s 2004 Living Coast Strategy has well passed its five year assignment....

Dr Joanna Vince1 1University Of Tasmania, LAUNCESTON, Australia, 2Centre for Marine Socio-ecology, Hobart, Australia Abstract In 1998 the Australian Commonwealth government released Australia’s Oceans Policy. At first, the government’s aim was to develop a policy that would achieve ‘full’ integration...

Ms Virginia Brook1, Ms Laurinda di Pietro 1DELWP, East Melbourne , Australia Abstract “Coastal co-investment – principles and practice” Author: Laurinda di Pietro, Virginia Brook This project looks at options for co-investment for the future management and maintenance of Victoria’s...

Dr Garry Middle1 1Western Australian Planning Commission , Perth, Australia Abstract In 2005, the responsibility for coastal policy and planning in WA has given to the peak planning agency, the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC), with the support of the...

Mrs Lisa Uffman-Kirsch1 1University Of Tasmania-Faculty of Law and Centre For Marine Socioecology, North Royalton, United States Abstract The marine environment is a public resource with shared, common-pool ‘ownership’.  It offers no legal grant of private property ownership rights, and...

Prof. Marcus Haward1 1IMAS, University Of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, Australia Abstract In 1994, following completion of a number of inquiries and initiatives I argued that Australian coastal policy was a ‘clear picture with a cluttered foreground. Almost twenty-five years on,...

Ms Rebecca Price1, Ms Nicola Waldron1, Mr Jeremy Reiger1, Mr Ryan  Bath1 1Vic Dept Environment, Land, Water & Planning , East Melbourne, Australia Abstract In 2015 the Victorian Government committed to strengthening the marine and coastal system by developing a...