Regional assessments are from the point of view of the people and communities within the planning area. This account documents how each management scenario affects production, income and employment in various sectors of the local economies. Direct impacts on resource-dependent sectors can have indirect impacts on other sectors in the region that provide goods and services to the sector and its workers. This account documents how each management scenario affects the benefits derived from, or the values attached to, non-commercial, environmental resources and attributes in the planning area. This account documents how each management scenario affects the nature and quality of life of communities in the planning area.
Social impacts result primarily from changes in employment or land use.
The evaluations carried out under this account consider impacts on population, local government and social services. The types of impacts may vary according to the concerns and characteristics of the affected communities. This account documents how each management scenario affects aboriginal communities in the planning area. This includes the impacts on aboriginal community resources, cultural values and traditional activities in addition to the impacts documented under the Community Account. While the social and economic impacts of land and resource management scenarios are most apparent in the planning region, there will also be a range of impacts felt outside the region.