The relationship between community vitality, viability and health, and natural resources and their management

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This Final Report presents:

(i) key findings from a Literature Review that explores the nature of people’s interactions with natural resources, viewed from individual and community perspectives, with special attention given to the concept of community vitality, viability and health (VVH);
(ii) suggested headline and supporting indicators for testing as to their suitability in assessing community VVH and its contribution to natural resource management (NRM) delivery and outcomes;
(iii) a prospectus for how the indicators might be tested in one or more regions across Australia, and
(iv) options for next steps for consideration by the Social and Economic National Coordination Committee.

This is the final report that will be delivered to the National Land and Water Resources Audit (NLWRA), as part of URS’s commitments to the Socio-economic indicators to assess community vitality, viability and health for natural resource management project.