Organisations often fail to muster their internal resources to relate to communities in ways that engender a strong social license to operate. This failure is said to be costing Australia billions in lost productivity. Accurate and recent figures are hard to come by, but Davies and Franks (2014) estimated that...
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Consultation in Planning a Coastal Tourism Hub
As a capstone to a series of articles on sustainability assessments, we look at consultation in place planning and early feasibility studies. Whose values matter most in community consultation? The role of the public participation adviser is to seek out a diversity of views on an issue. And then to...
Five Reasons Why Infrastructure Sustainability Assessments Fail to Manage Community Risk #5
This is the last in a series of five posts exploring common community engagement failures in infrastructure planning. It follows on from posts exploring how world view biases are a pitfall in translating community values into operational decision-making criteria and heuristics can unhelpfully influence project option design and collective evaluation....
Five Reasons Why Infrastructure Sustainability Assessments Fail to Manage Community Risk #4
This is the fourth in a series of five posts exploring common community engagement failures in infrastructure planning. It follows on from an introduction of the potential benefits and shortcomings of Multicriteria Analysis (MCA), the need to focus on issues material to affected communities, and how world view biases are...
Five Reasons Why Infrastructure Sustainability Assessments Fail to Manage Community Risk #2
This is the second in a series of five concise posts exploring common community engagement failures in infrastructure planning. It follows on from an introduction of the potential benefits and shortcomings of diversity of world views in the Multicriteria Analysis (MCA) study team. This post considers how issues of material...
