We undertake needs based planning and utilise participatory planning models to engage local communities in Local Environment Plan (LEP) review processes, housing studies, social plans and settlement strategies.

• We are currently completing a major study for the Cotton Catchment Communities Co-Operative Research Centre (CRC) to understand the complex relationship between cotton growing and community resilience in the Murray-Darling Basin in the face of reduced water availability due to policy and climate change. Social Impact Assessment and cost benefit analysis will be used to understand impacts at different geographic scales including the farm, community, Basin and Nation.

• We have completed Measuring Community Wellbeing in Cotton Communities, a study that developed a broad set of quantitative and qualitative indicators to investigate community wellbeing and measure the long-term social and economic impacts of the cotton industry on communities in rural NSW and Queensland for the Cotton Catchment Communities Co-Operative Research Centre (CRC).