Umwelt works with both public and private sector clients to support policy development and review and strategic land use planning at the regional or landscape scale, where multidisciplinary approaches and strategic thinking are essential.
We have detailed knowledge of environmental and social policy and planning frameworks at local, State and Commonwealth levels, with expertise in development, implementation and review of policies, guidelines, strategic plans and programs in the coastal management, biodiversity, natural resources, land use planning and mineral resources sectors.
Our team’s outstanding communication and briefing skills support us to facilitate engagement across community, technical and senior management audiences, including elected representatives to deliver effective policy and planning advice.
This combination of strong analysis and evaluation skills with clear communication and innovative, strategic thinking creates positive and sustainable program and policy outcomes for our clients and the environment and communities they serve.
Experts Across a Range of Policy and Advisory Services
- Program and policy evaluation
- Stakeholder engagement
- Spatial analysis
- Social and economic analysis
- Strategic and statutory land use planning
- Strong technical skills across diverse environmental services and landscape types
- Corporate ESG policies, frameworks and programs
- Coastal management frameworks, guidelines, program review and policy advice
- Catchment and regional scale strategic planning including natural resources plans, planning. instruments and strategic regional assessments
- Regional biodiversity and conservation strategies
- Climate change adaptation strategies
- Evaluation of land management and land use planning frameworks
- Land use transition planning
- Social policy and strategy evaluation and review, community development planning
- Strategic cultural heritage plans
- Public land management planning for conservation and nature-based recreation
- Program review and evaluation
Nature Positive is Eco-Centric
A societal-level shift in how humans view the world, and how humans fit within the world.
The Relationship Between Offsets and Nature Positive
Activities to manage, maintain or enhance biodiversity on an offset site do not count as being nature positive.
