Prof. Douglas Baker

Prof. Douglas Baker

Research Program 1: Program Lead

P1-001 Global best practice in urban agrifood design and planning; P1-016 Urban Food Planning

Dr Douglas Baker is a Professor in the School of Built Environment at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Australia. His areas of expertise include land-use planning, airport management, regional air transport and infrastructure logistics. He has worked across the airport and air transport sectors in Australia, Canada and Europe. Prior to coming to Australia, Dr Baker worked in the public and private sectors, and was acting Head of the School of Environmental Planning at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada. Currently, he is working on a variety of projects including an international collaboration with the University of Cologne evaluating the planning of airports within the urban context; parking logistics with Brisbane City Council and the iMove CRC; and food-hub planning and logistics with the Future Food Systems CRC.

P1-039 In Progress

Australian Agrifood Hubs. Facilitation and planning implications

The future of the Australian food landscape requires research that involves a range of disciplines, including agriculture, marketing, supply chain logistics, sustainability, the circular economy, science, and technology. Urban and regional planning are also significant as they have a role to play in terms of facilitating of appropriate environments, both physical and social, to allow future food systems to thrive.
P1-016 Completed

How does urban food planning occur in Australia?

The confluence of urbanisation and globalisation has prompted urban food problems to increasingly manifest in urban areas around the globe, including Australia. Research shows that Australia is not immune to these identified urban food problems, ranging from urban food insecurity, urban epidemics, food-centred social injustice, food economy’s negative externalities to ecological imbalance.
P1-001 Completed

Global best practice in urban agrifood design and planning

To scope future work in CRC precinct design research, this project is surveying the best global practices in urban agrifood design and planning, with a focus on industry clusters and on nations and regions that have achieved economic, social and environmental objectives through excellence in design and planning.

Lijun Summerhayes: exploring urban food planning pathways 

QUT PhD and FFS PhD Lijun Summerhayes is researching urban food planning in Australia.

Specialised agrifood clusters: theory and practice

In this useful report, QUT's Randall McHugh explores the pros and cons of specialist industry clusters, and examines the potential benefits to our agrifood sector of clustering in locations well suited to agrifood operations..
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