Social » Regional Foundations
High quality and secure infrastructure and services meet everyday needs. These are developed and maintained to support the sustainable growth of the region, now and in the future.
What is Regional Foundations?
There are some services which are foundations of modern society, and their availability and reliability is critical to the whole community. Many of these services have a major impact on health outcomes, quality of life, the ability of the region to effectively serve an increasing population and the economic viability of the region.
Regional foundations is made up of 5 indicators that were selected to measure progress towards the regional foundations community outcome definition (shown above). Please see below for the raw data available over the 2001 to 2010 study period for each of the regional foundations community indicators.
As with the social well-being GPI, the the available indicator data that forms part of the regional foundations community outcome area was used to calculate individual index values for each indicator for each year over the 2001 to 2010 study period. The graph below shows the average of these individual index values, and represents the regional foundations community outcome GPI for the Wellington region from 2001-2010.
Regional foundations GPI, 2001-2010
What this means
Over the 2001 to 2010 time period, the regional foundations GPI was found to be highest in 2001 and lowest in 2010. The regional foundations GPI decreased rapidly between 2001 and 2006, but has remained relatively unchanged since this time. Overall, the regional foundations GPI has decreased by 11.6% from 2001 to 2010. The largest change was an 80% decrease in the values for water allocation compared to total water resource over the study period.
Did you know?
The GPI counts crime, pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, natural resource depletion and soil loss, as costs, not gains, to the economy.
4 Indicators are being used to track Regional Foundations in the Wellington region
Click on each indicator below to access further information
Sustainable water use » Overview
Fresh water is a finite resource, so competing demands for water use must be balanced with maintaining the resource. This indicator is a proxy measure of sustainable water use.
Water allocation compared to total water resource, 2001-2011
Findings
- In 2010, the water stress ratio (water allocation compared to total water resource) was 0.0649, an increase from 0.0568 in 2006.
- This increase is due to an increase in water allocation of this time. Despite this increase, water stress remains low in the region (ratio is less than 0.2).
Sustainable water use » Technical Information
Indicator Definition
The ratio between water allocation and total water resource in the region.
Data Source
Last updated 26 July 2012
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