- Title
- The right to contribute: the dynamics and dilemmas of community engagement in the Australian context
- Creator
- Cameron, Jenny; Grant-Smith, Deanna
- Relation
- The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning p. 293-301
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315748054-23
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- In this chapter, we explore community engagement in the Australian context and discuss it through the lens of four dilemmas that have been recognized in Australia, and internationally, as constituting the dynamic nature of public participation. The dilemmas involve rights and recognition, values, registers of rationality and emotion, and actions outside the planning system. For each dilemma we provide historical context, discuss emblematic cases and overview emerging issues that arc shaping engagement practice in Australia. The cases discussed include those from urban and regional settings, and focus on built and natural environments and the actions of a wide range of stakeholders. The cases provide insights into the distinctiveness of the Australian planning context and the "essentially political process" that lies at the heart of public participation and community engagement (Brownill & Parker, 2010: 279).
- Subject
- community engagement; public participation; Australia; planning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1396865
- Identifier
- uon:34140
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138813540
- Language
- eng
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