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Quality of Life Assessment Toolkit
From this page you can download guides and reports to help you use and understand the Quality of Life Assessment approach. Further guides will be added to this QoLA Toolkit over time.
QoLA Guides are in Portable Document File (PDF) format which you can view and print using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Applying QoL Assessment to specific scales of planning / management
- Managing Change on Individual Sites
Sets out step by step how the QoL Assessment approach can help inform decisions on the management of change on individual sites.
Managing Change on Individual Sites (2mb pdf) - Statutory and Non-Statutory Plans
Sets out step by step how the QoL Assessment approach can help inform decisions affecting quality of life within statutory and non statutory plans and strategies.
Statutory and Non-Statutory Plans (894kb pdf)
Applying QoL Assessment to specific sectors or resources
- Designations
How does the QoL Assessment approach relate to statutory designations? Discusses how the QoL Assessment approach can help inform decisions affecting designated areas.
Designations (48kb pdf) - Earth Heritage
How the QoL Assessment approach can help in the analysis, management and enhancement of Earth heritage resources. Discusses basic principles of Earth heritage resources, presents a brief hypothetical example of the application of the approach to Earth heritage resources, considers how the analysis stages of the approach can be used for geological benefits.
Earth Heritage (81kb pdf)
Processes and Techniques that QoL Assessment uses and works with
- Components of Quality of Life Assessment Practitioners use a variety of criteria for ascribing importance to the features or situations which concern them. The following is a composite list of many of the criteria used across different disciplines, covering environmental, social, and economic objectives.
Components of Quality of Life Assessment (9kb pdf) - The What Matters and Why Matrix: Template for Your Use
Provides a blank What Matters and Why Matrix with basic instructions for your use.
The What Matters and Why Matrix: Template for Your Use (107kb pdf) - Substitution
How the issue of substitution can be tackled in the QoL Assessment approach.
Substitution (54kb pdf) - Public Participation
How the public can be involved in the QoL Assessment approach. Discusses the public participation methods used by the pilot projects. Presents a checklist to help ensure that the appropriate method for involving the public is selected, and lists references for further reading.
Public Participation (62kb pdf)
