Contemporary approaches to sustainability governance by Australian local governments: Planetary health in the Blue Mountains
  • Description

    This project contributes to conceptual development of planetary health using the Blue Mountains population as an empirical case study to understand citizen perspectives and values associated with health, wellbeing, and nature and the implications for using planetary health in sustainability policy. The project also analyses the sustainability governance approaches of seven Australian local governments to develop a perspective on contemporary leading practice in 2022.

    There are 3 data sets derived from 1) surveying and 2) interviews.

    1) Surveying: qualitative data from a questionnaire. Data will be stored in a spreadsheet (.CSV), with each survey location having its own spreadsheet. Each spreadsheet will be named according to the location, and "surveydata", e.g. Blackheath_surveydata. Each data point (questionnaire participant) will be identified by site and number. E.g. Blackheath1.

    2) Interviews: Qualitative written data (meeting transcriptions). Interviews will be transcribed into Word documents (.doc), with each interview having it's own document. Each document will be identified by the organisation of the interviewee and date (DDMMYYYY) of the interview, e.g. BlueMountainsCityCouncil01012022.

    Data will be stored hierarchically, according to data set and type:

    • Data

    o Surveying

     Site 1

    o Interviews

     State 1

    • Network

    o Person 1 Transcript

    • Council

    o Person 1 Transcript


    • Data publication title Contemporary approaches to sustainability governance by Australian local governments: Planetary health in the Blue Mountains
    • Description

      This project contributes to conceptual development of planetary health using the Blue Mountains population as an empirical case study to understand citizen perspectives and values associated with health, wellbeing, and nature and the implications for using planetary health in sustainability policy. The project also analyses the sustainability governance approaches of seven Australian local governments to develop a perspective on contemporary leading practice in 2022.

      There are 3 data sets derived from 1) surveying and 2) interviews.

      1) Surveying: qualitative data from a questionnaire. Data will be stored in a spreadsheet (.CSV), with each survey location having its own spreadsheet. Each spreadsheet will be named according to the location, and "surveydata", e.g. Blackheath_surveydata. Each data point (questionnaire participant) will be identified by site and number. E.g. Blackheath1.

      2) Interviews: Qualitative written data (meeting transcriptions). Interviews will be transcribed into Word documents (.doc), with each interview having it's own document. Each document will be identified by the organisation of the interviewee and date (DDMMYYYY) of the interview, e.g. BlueMountainsCityCouncil01012022.

      Data will be stored hierarchically, according to data set and type:

      • Data

      o Surveying

       Site 1

      o Interviews

       State 1

      • Network

      o Person 1 Transcript

      • Council

      o Person 1 Transcript


    • Data type dataset
    • Keywords
      • Local government
      • Sustainability policy
      • Planetary health
      • Environmental sustainability
    • Funding source
      • Blue Mountains City Council (industry scholarship)
    • Grant number(s)
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    • FoR codes
      • 440604 - Environmental geography
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      Temporal (time) coverage
    • Start date 2022/03/01
    • End date 2022/10/30
    • Time period
       
      Spatial (location,mapping) coverage
    • Locations
      • Blue Mountains
      Data Locations

      Type Location Notes
      The Data Manager is: Eleanor Robson
      Access conditions Conditional
    • Related publications
        Name Implementing local planetary health : case study of Blue Mountains, Australia
      • URL https://hdl-handle-net.ezproxy.uws.edu.au/1959.7/uws:67934
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      • Name Planetary health values and the implications for sustainability governance: case study in the City of Blue Mountains, Australia
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      • Name Local government sustainability governance agendas in 2022: analysis of seven Australian case studies using transformations theory
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    • Statement of rights in data Copyright Western Sydney University
      Citation Robson, Eleanor; Salazar, Juan (2024): Contemporary approaches to sustainability governance by Australian local governments: Planetary health in the Blue Mountains. Western Sydney University. https://doi.org/10.26183/h517-ds35