CSIRO survey of Community Wellbeing and responding to change: Western Downs region in Queensland

[摘要] Preface:This report presents the findings from the second stage of a three year project entitled “Impacts of Coal Seam Gas mining on communities in the Western Downs: How features, resources and strategies of a community affect its functioning and well-being” (or the Community Functioning and Wellbeing Project). The Western Downs local government area in southern Queensland is in the Surat Basin where most of Australia’s coal seam gas (CSG) reserves can be found and where most CSG development activity is presently taking place.The Community Functioning and Wellbeing Project is one of a suite of projects examining social conditions of coal seam gas communities in the Western Downs. It compliments other projects examining the demographic changes in the region and the communities’ aspirations for the future.The first stage of the Community Functioning and Wellbeing Project, conducted in 2013, investigated how communities were responding to change in the context of a rapidly expanding CSG industry. Using a case study approach, it centred on the town of Chinchilla and surrounds in the Western Downs (WD) region. This second stage, in 2014, focuses on measuring community functioning and wellbeing across the whole Western Downs region using a representative survey of residents.

[发布机构] CSIRO

[学科分类] 地球科学(综合)