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Main themes identified as important for the social wellbeing of the Woady Yaloak catchment (Source: Pepperdine, 2002)
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... (2000) provides an example of how a set of indicators to assess a community's social sustainability may be developed by including local stakeholders (see also Burdge and Vanclay 1995:32). In a study of the Woady Yaloak river catchment in Victoria, Pepperdine (2000) developed a schematic of the main themes identified as important to social wellbeing of the Woady Yaloak catchment, which provides a useful example of the complexity of views of what constitutes sustainable community wellbeing (Figure 1). *** ...
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