This paper examines the micro elements of strategic planning: the rules, shared understandings, and structures.

In order to better analyse the impact of governance, this paper proposes a set of governance indicators to examine decisions across regional planning institutions and apply this to governance models across Queensland’s regions.

This paper analyses the sustainability planning governance arrangements in the Cairns region by exploring the capacity, connectivity and knowledge use of institutions in the region to deliver desired sustainability planning outcomes.

The imminent arrival of the Second Machine Age (2MA) will usher in an era of unprecedented economic and social turmoil which is likely to rewrite, over the next quarter century, the structure and function of cities at up to 4 times the pace of the industrial revolution, which itself transformed cities in the two centuries...

This paper reviews the institutional context of the Gold and Sunshine Coasts in addressing urban resilience to climate-related disasters.