From c.1995-2006 the Department of Natural Resources published a series of Resource Planning Guidelines that are no longer readily accessible . Some of these documents have enduring value, though legislation and policy has in many cases changed substantially since then. These papers are copyright to the Queensland Government. The Australian Web Archive has captured the set of published guidelines as they stood at August 2004: Resource Planning Guidelines in Trove.
Some titles are re-presented here:
B1-The Nature of Land Planning. 1998. This paper explains that land resources need to be planned to ensure that they are used sustainably.
B2-Allocation, Regulation and Management: Three Approaches to Resource Sustainability. 2002. This paper outlines a conceptual framework for understanding how land in Queensland is administered.
C5-Translating NRM Planning Between the Regional and Property Scales, 2004. Conceptualises the procedures for land-use planning.
E3 Strategic Data Capture Plan, 2004. A list of the data sets required to form prudent decisions about the use of land and natural resources, with explanations. See post “Condition and Trend“.
E51 Benefit/Cost of Land Resource Assessment: The Leichhardt Downs (Burdekin) Study, 2005. An economic analysis of the value of coordinated land resource assessment, demonstrating a benefit cost ratio of more than 50 to 1, primarily on account of avoided errors.
F9 Determining Most Appropriate Use, 2005. This paper explains the principles to apply in evaluating an area of land to determine its ‘most appropriate use’. Although this exercise is best known as part of the process of allocating State land (see s.16 of the Land Act 1994), the concepts can usefully be applied during other procedures such as writing reserve management plans or designating land in planning schemes; and for resources other than land.
G100 Implementing Natural Resource Management Plans: Ensuring that something happens, 2004. Explains property rights, tools for achieving conservation and NRM, constituting a coordinating body. A good read for members and staff of NRM and landcare groups. This paper consolidates a few themes covered in previous Guidelines. The repetition was deliberate, so that each paper would stand on its own.
E31 Assessing, Evaluating and Protecting Land as Open Space, 1999. This paper explains how to assess and evaluate the open space attributes of a parcel of land or a group of parcels. It also explains how to weigh up the need to apply protective mechanisms. It examines the meaning of ‘regional’ as differentiated from ‘local’ open space.