Paper: SOCIAL PLANNING
Specialising In
- Natural resource and social planning
- Community consultation and facilitation
- Policy development
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- Sustainable Natural Resource Management
- Social Planning
- Community Consultation and Facilitation
- Consensus Building, Mediation and Conflict Resolution
- Advocacy Support
- Organisational Diagnosis and Development
- Provision of Policy Advice
SOCIAL PLANNING
Social issues impact on people's way of life, their culture and traditions, as well as their communities, and are an essential aspect of development. Increasingly the community, corporate and government sectors are recognising and acknowledging the importance of integrating social planning with both economic and environmental planning. Using a consultative approach, we will develop recommendations for use in planning for a sustainable future.
Projects undertaken include:
WWF Australia
In 2003 Community Solutions worked with WWF Australia to bring together the diversity of interests needed to sustainably manage the Robbins Passage/Boullanger Bay area in the far north-west of Tasmania. That project led, in 2006, to a community-based management planning process for the area led by the Tasmanian Land Conservancy, in which Community Solutions was responsible for the community engagement and facilitation aspects of the work. A similar project resulted in 2006, in a set of interim management guidelines for the Ramsar-listed wetlands of international significance at Roebuck Bay near Broome in north-western Australia.
NSW Department of Housing
Community Solutions is working with Associate Edwina Deakin, to evaluate a new Assisted Tenancy Pilot Project. The project aims to assist social housing clients with significant support needs to live independently. The evaluation outcomes will influence planning for these clients into the future.
Sutherland Shire Council - Social Impact Assessment
Commissioned by Sutherland Shire Council's Environmental Science & Policy Unit early in 1998, the partners in Community Solutions worked with staff in the Unit to develop a simple and readily transparent process for assessing social impacts of policy and program changes directed to achieving ecological sustainability within the Shire. Building on the Unit's preliminary risk assessment of issues affecting air and water quality, land use change and biodiversity conservation within Sutherland Shire, the project provided a report intended to advance the integration of environmental, social and economic considerations in the ongoing development of a Local Agenda 21 for the area.
Social needs of women and children in Warringah
In early 1999, Community Solutions worked with Jackie Ohlin to prepare a social needs assessment to assist Warringah Council in the development of its Social Plan for the Warringah community. Focus groups were held both with women and primary school aged children. A mail survey of women across the Local Government area was conducted. The final report focused on what defined 'liveability' for women and children, and focused on issues of safety, transport, the environment and community facilities.
Social issues and values in native vegetation management
In 1999, Community Solutions drew together for the NSW Native Vegetation Advisory Council, a research paper on social issues and values in native vegetation management. The paper explored such issues as cultural and historical aspects of Australian understanding of native vegetation and the beliefs about native vegetation found in today's urban and rural communities, and summarised work on government and other mechanisms which might be used to encourage its protection. The paper will guide the development of a Native Vegetation Conservation Strategy for NSW.