Developing a Social, Cultural and Economic Report Card for a Regional Industrial Harbour.

ABSTRACT: Report cards are increasingly used to provide ongoing snap-shots of progress towards specific ecosystem health goals, particularly in coastal regions where planners need to balance competing demands for coastal resources from a range of industries. While most previous report cards focus on the biophysical components of the system, there is a growing interest in including the social and economic implications of ecosystem management to provide a greater social-ecological system understanding. Such a report card was requested on the Gladstone Harbour area in central Queensland, Australia. Gladstone Harbour adjoins the southern Great Barrier Reef, and is also a major industrial and shipping port. Balancing social, economic and environmental interests is therefore of great concern to the region

SUBMITTER: Pascoe S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4740459 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature