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This chapter examines how Healthy Country Planning and an adaptation of The Nature Conservancy’s (TNC’s) Development by Design process have been used to support social value in planning and development assessment processes in northern Australia. The combined use of Healthy Country Planning and Development by Design aims to increase the capacity of Indigenous landowners and rights-holders to: assess the implications of potential economic development options on the values that are important to them; improve evaluation of the relative risks and benefits of the different options; enhance community engagement and influence land-use decision-making related to these options; and to deliver on community goals.
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From Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives, the term ‘Country’ is generally used to refer to distinct geo-cultural communities, rather than to the whole Australian continent. ‘Country’ is an Aboriginal English word that encapsulates the way Indigenous Australians understand and relate to their ancestral estate (Rose 2002; Hunt 2013).
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Hinchley, D., Weisenberger, F., Parriman, D., Fitzsimons, J., Heiner, M. (2023). Integrating Social Value in Landscape Planning: Experiences from Working with Indigenous Communities in Australia. In: Nikolakis, W., Moura da Veiga, R. (eds) Social Value, Climate Change and Environmental Stewardship: Insights from Theory and Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23145-2_6
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