Community participation
Alternative labels
Social participation
Participatory processes
Community involvement
Political participation
Conference paper
The changing port-city interface: moving towards sustainability?
In this paper, it is argued that the recognition of changing urban contexts, awareness of environmental issues, fair processes and a comprehensive redevelopment plan are essential to garner community support and to avoid piecemeal redevelopment.
Conference paper
Multiple dialogues and conflicting agendas on governing the city: Western Australia's 'Dialogue with the City'
Governments are seeking to involve the broader community in their decision-making processes in response to changes in the relationships between citizens and the state. This paper argues that participatory processes are viewed in multiple ways through multiple dialogues or discourses.
Transcript
Online political interaction
The Media Report takes a critical look at some interesting new online initiatives which promote user-interaction and were launched just in time for the current federal election campaign.
Working paper
Beyond conceptual elegance: local participation and the 'model' Fitzgerald Biosphere Reserve
This paper examines local engagement in management of both the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources. It outlines the results of a baseline survey about attitudes, perception, activities and knowledge of the natural environment of people living in western side of the Fitzgerald biosphere reserve.
Report
Logging on: culture, participation and the web
In the brief history of the internet, the cultural sector has followed two related paths: on the one hand, the digitisation of content and provision of information and, on the other, interactivity and opportunities for expression. Some have seen these as in binary opposition. The truth is that they are inexorably merging. But the big...