Final Report on the Status of the Social, Cultural (Sense of place) and Economic Components for the Gladstone Harbour 2018 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. It 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 2018 is the fifth consecutive year of reporting. The report card encapsulates environmental, social, cultural and economic objectives. The focus of this report is on the last three components.