Congress papers from the Planning Institute of Australia 2011 National Congress

Abstract

The following five papers were presented and peer reviewed for the PIA National Congress in Hobart in March 2011. These papers have been included because the editors feel theyare important and should be available to a broad audience. However please note that theydid not go through the academic peer review process for Australian Planner.

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank Moken Samuel Phel from the Office of Urbanisation, Waigani, Port Moresby, who organised the fieldwork, including making initial contact with households, organising meetings and verifying the research findings in Four Mile Settlement.

Much of the material presented in this paper was originally prepared for Wyong Shire in NSW and is presented with their consent. Without their initiative and funding and access to detail data in the Shire much of the work would not have been undertaken or possible. The author would like to thank his colleagues at SGS Economics and Planning who worked on this project, particularly Yuan Deng, who undertook the detailed modelling of damage estimates over time with changing flood risk profiles, the core analytical part of this work. Thanks also to Mark Dutfield who researched the flood damage and costs data, and Yasmin Campbell and Liam Walsh who researched the evidence for impacts of flood events on property prices. However, the conclusions presented are those of the author. The author would also like to thank John Hunter of the Antarctic, Climate and Ecosystems CRC, Hobart for reviewing the methodology and analysis of the flood risk curves over time.