2019-05-07 P&E Agenda - Item 3 - Attachment 1 - Noosa Sustainability Institute - Concepts and Options Report

In conjunction with the meetings with Council staff, a small number of community members were
approached for their opinion on the possible structure and role of a Noosa Sustainability Institute
and the value of such an institute to the Noosa community and environment. This information was
gathered through face-to-face interviews. These interviews were covered under a CSIRO Human
ethics approval. As the interviews were exploratory in nature there were no set questions approved
by the Ethics Committee, instead, the approval covered the interview process which was provided
to each interviewee in advance (see Appendix D for details). The interviews went for approximately
1 hour and covered the general opinion of the interviewee regarding the usefulness of such an
institute and their thoughts on the relative merits of some preliminary Institute options developed
from the review of existing national and international institutes and the first Council staff feedback
meeting. The responses from the interviewees were compared and added to the information from
the search of existing institutes and feedback from the Council staff.




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