ABSTRACT
Planning is something most of us do in one form or another every day. It is also a specialized skill practised by corporate managers, town planners and natural resource managers. In essence, planning is concerned with the future, particularly with future courses of action. Planning is a process for determining ‘what should be’ (usually defined by a series of objectives) and for selecting actions that can help to achieve these objectives. Other definitions of planning include:
Planning is intervention with an intention to alter the existing course of events (Campbell and Fainstein, 2003).
Planning is the generic activity of purposeful anticipation of, and provision for, the future (Selman, 2000).
