Final Report on the Status of the Social, Cultural (Sense of place) and Economic Components for the 2022 Gladstone Harbour Report Card

The Gladstone Harbour Report Card, first piloted in 2014, represents one of the early initiatives to incorporate social, cultural and economic indicators in an aquatic health report card. The report card has been associated with pioneering new methodologies and techniques in the assessment process such as the use of Bayesian Belief Networks to combine the different measures and indicators (Pascoe et al., 2016) and the application of nonmarket valuation techniques in the economic assessment (Windle et al., 2017). The Gladstone Harbour Report Card is produced annually and 2022 is the seventh year of reporting. The report card encapsulates environmental, social, cultural and economic objectives. The focus of this report is on the last three components. The methods used in this report are the exact same as in prior editions (e.g. De Valck et al., 2019). The most up-to-date data were collected to update all data sets based on data availability (see Appendix), which means that not all data sets contain data going as far as 2022.