NZ2100 Universal Health Model and Framework

We've created the NZ2100 sustainable development framework by requiring that the health of your neighbourhood, business, forest, or catchment (or watershed) be assessed explicitly in terms of each of the four areas of community health or wellbeing: social, economic, environmental, and cultural. So, each of the seven system qualities of the Common Sustainability Language is applied to each of the four dimensions of system health. This creates a 28 sector framework for considering the health of systems such as neighbourhoods and businesses.

NZ2100 matrix shaded according to performance scores or levels of risk

So the NZ2100 sustainability framework, or matrix, immediately reveals 28 fundamental ways of making improvements to your system. You can use this framework to either assess the health of your system, or for assessing impacts on that health. You can do this qualitatively and descriptively, or you can set up a system of performance indicators for measuring these qualities. This is one area where the KiwiGrow™ collaborative development network will be able to help you. You will then be able to colour code the 28 sectors of the matrix, or use other graphical methods, to highlight where the opportunities or issues lie, or the nature of unforeseen collateral impacts or benefits of a proposed action.