Multi-level Governance in Integrated Land Use and Natural Resource Planning on the Urban Fringe: A Case Study of Processes and Structures for Governing across Boundaries

Abstract

The southern and eastern rural– urban fringe of metropolitan Adelaide provides a case study of different governance systems across three levels of government – federal, state and local – dealing with urban development and water resources management. AsKayobserves in his chapter, multilevel governance (MLG), while over 20 years old, is a relatively little acknowledged process ‘creating cross-jurisdictional policy capacity in Australia, across and between different governance jurisdictions to match the territorial scale that is functional for effective policy response’. The subject of this chapter provides a demonstration that the MLG concept (see also Hooghe and Marks 2001) can contribute to