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How much time and effort does it take?
This is a bit of a 'how long is a piece of string?' question! The official pilots took anything between a few person days and half a person year. Some of the shorter exercises were at least as useful as some of the longer ones. The new guidance provides advice on minimising the effort by avoiding steps which are not necessary for a particular purpose, and not doing anything in more detail than needed.
Our hope and expectation is that, for any given level of thoroughness and detail of assessment, QoL Assessment should take less time for a given quality of result than other methods. But at the same time, it is becoming clear that sustainable development will require us to put more effort into researching, understanding and responding to the environmental and social consequences of many decisions than hitherto. QoL Assessment should reduce the extra effort which sustainable development is going to require.
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