Plan and Policy Considerations

Environmental and Sustainable Development Issues

Understand environmental management, biophysical environments and systems, ecological limits and processes, and science and sustainability.
Understand the relationship between ecological, social and economic factors in planning, including the concept of sustainable development.
Able to assess issues and the effects on development actions and able to debate and link the relationships by using planning as a positive influence.

Diversity and Inclusiveness

Understand demographics of society and diversity and inclusiveness considerations including, but not limited to Aboriginal people.
Understand practices to effectively comply with legal aspects and benefit from approaches to building on diversity and difference.
Able to develop plans that build on diversity and inclusiveness considerations.

Functional Integration of Knowledge

Understand basic elements and interactions between the following functional areas and other areas that have a relationship to planning: transportation; facilities; economics; social; urban design; legal; resources; environment; recreation; housing; infrastructure; land use; development control; etc.
Understand how to use networks and other domains of knowledge to support decision making
Able to integrate knowledge and demonstrate technical capacities to apply it to planning situations.
Able to understand how technology can support planning analysis and activities, policy development and decision making.

Finance and Economics

Understand the economics of development (private and public perspectives).
Understand local government finance and its relationship to development.
Able to assess financial and economic considerations, and use this information to support the development of planning proposals and reports.