Research Areas

  • Urban planning and regional comparative planning systems
  • Collaborative environmental planning and management
  • Planning for environmental sustainability
  • Planning for housing accessibility, diversity and affordability
  • Coastal protection & growth
  • Australian Urban Land Use Planning Policy Monitor
  • Social and environmental justice
  • Community forestry
  • Political ecology
  • Natural resource management
  • Sustainable development and climate change
  • Urban policy and planning locally and internationally
  • Suburban economic development
  • Poverty and inequality
  • Rural communities
  • Community development and sustainable planning
  • Urban planning research and education
  • Gated communities
  • Tourism development in Pacific urban planning
  • Development aid policy
  • Environmental impact assessments (EIA)
  • Housing policy in developing countries
  • Indigenous settlement and land tenure issues
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Economic development
  • Planning Support Systems
  • Visualization
  • Communting behaviour
  • Spatial decision making