Most communities agree that essentials like safe water, sealed roads and reliable power are crucial. To achieve items on a liveability wish list, communities may need help from different levels of government for things like major roads or railways. However, some items, like sporting clubs or youth groups, are best set up by the community itself.
TABLE1 Matching liveability indicators to key themes Measure Indicators
Examples
• Population characteristics (gender, age) • Education (primary, secondary, tertiary) • Health (life expectancy, health-centre attendance, length of walking tracks, smoking rates, weight, chronic diseases) • Safety (perception, crime rates, road deaths and injuries, work safety)
• Volunteering • Voting • Agedcare
Social
accommodation • Access to public transport • Membership of clubs and organisations • Diversity (ethnicity)
• Biodiversity • Planning for the future • Water access • Waste management • Ecological footprint • Employment • Variety of businesses • Income
• Public spaces • Household recycling • Weather • Land clearing • House ownership • Infrastructure • Internet access • Power • Car ownership
Environmental
Economic
• Financial stress • Housing types
FIGURE2 Community wish list: some aspects of liveability are common to all groups and some are desired by particular groups.
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