NESP MaC Project 3.1: Regional Planning Case Studies for Northern Australia

A project from the NESP Marine and Coastal Hub focuses on improving regional planning practices in northern Australia. It builds a community of practice and develops three sentinel case studies across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland. The project applies Governance Systems Analysis to inform policy and practice, with outputs including a dataset and a final technical report.

Use Cases

• Analyzing governance systems for regional planning based on the sentinel case study approach.
• Informing policy improvements for Ecologically Sustainable Development (ESD) based on the project's recommendations.
• Supporting knowledge management and best practice communication for regional planning efforts.

Strengths

• Project builds on a prior foundational study (NESP MAC Hub Project 1.32).
• Focuses on three specific sentinel case studies across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and Queensland.
• Outputs include a dataset and a final technical report with policy recommendations.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to its focus on northern Australia.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

The project employs Governance Systems Analysis approaches developed under previous NERP and NESP investments.

Time Range

2023-2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-17 07:16:29.287780; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Northern Australia (Western Australia, Northern Territory, Queensland)