Dr John Wolfenden (MPIA, MEIANZ)

Regional Manager and Senior Planner

 

 

Dr Wolfenden is an experienced ecological economist, environmental/development planner and community/group facilitator.  He has extensive experience working on sustainable development projects, including strategic land use planning exercises in the Upper Hunter region of NSW and for Coffs Harbour Council, and numerous projects involving strategic environmental planning relating to ecosystem, salinity and water resource endowments and their connection with sustainable development.  He has worked on a number of subdivisions from two-lot infill developments up to major industrial developments. His core competencies are:

• High level professional communications skills
• Integrated Socioeconomic Assessment
• Participative Planning and Decision Making
• Project Development, Implementation and Management
• Sustainability and Resilience Planning and Management
• System Thinker, Practitioner and Modeller
• Team building, Leadership and Management
• Transformational Change Processes

 

He has specialist knowledge in the following primary areas:

• Integrated approaches to water systems management
• NSW Standard Instrument for LEPs
• Sustainable development within the irrigation industry
• Planning and managing subdivisions
• Strategic planning for sustainability and enhanced resilience

 

Dr Wolfenden  is recognised by the Australia Research Council as an 'expert of international standing' in the Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences.