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Claudia Baldwin

Claudia Baldwin

BA Wat., MA (Regional Planning) Wat.
Position: Lecturer, Environmental and Planning Studies
Office: D1.05
Tel: +61 7 5430 1283
Email: cbaldwin@usc.edu.au

Teaching areas

  • Regional and Urban Planning
  • Participation, Conflict and Mediation in Planning
  • Advanced Planning 
  • Planning Design Studio
  • Regional Infrastructure Planning

Research areas

  • Collaborative decision-making, community engagement, and alternative dispute resolution
  • Social and community sustainability, attitudes/perceptions of natural resource management (NRM) and planning
  • Water planning
  • Community-based governance of NRM
  • Sustainable design, affordable housing

Profile

Claudia Baldwin is a regional planner with more than 20 years experience in Queensland government, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, and as a consultant in Australia and internationally. She has worked in urban and regional planning; natural resource, coastal and marine park planning; community engagement; policy development; impact assessment; and research and monitoring program management, and evaluation. She has considerable experience in collaboration and consultation with all levels of government, research institutions, private enterprise, interest groups, and community. She is an IAMA accredited mediator.

Professional appointments

  • Editorial Board, Australasian Journal of Environmental Management, 1996 - present

Professional memberships

  • Corporate member, Planning Institute of Australia (PIA)
  • Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand (EIANZ)
  • Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia (IAMA)
  • International Association of Public Participation (IAP2)
  • Queensland Environmental Law Assn (QELA)
  • Environmental Defenders Office, Queensland (EDO)

Publications

Many of Claudia Baldwin's publications are available from Coast Research Database.

Research grants

  • Conflict resolution in water allocation and use, Baldwin C, CRC Irrigation Futures PhD Scholarship, 2004-2007.
  • Consensus building in water allocation and use, Baldwin C, Queensland Government Smart State Award, March 2005-2007.
  • Public Participation in Dams and Dam Development, Baldwin C and Twyford V, United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), 2006
  • Water Planning in Australia: Lessons Learned, Hamstead M, Baldwin C, and O’Keefe V, National Water Commission, 2007
  • Conflict Resolution in Local Government, Baldwin C, USC Seed Grant, Maroochy Shire Council, Noosa Shire Council, 2007.

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