State of the South West 2009 - Downloads

• To download the latest PDFs from the State of the South West 2009 Web Edition, click on the links in the right-hand column. To access the 'live' online 2009 Edition click here.
• To request high quality PDFs (up to 20MB) for any or all of the chapters, please email Andy Dunne
• For Archived State of the South Wests - 2008, 2007, 2004 - please click here.
• If you do use any of the information contained in the report please remember to reference the source and copyright, thank you. 

The South West Observatory and partners have updated the State of the South West reference guide to environmental, social and economic characteristics of the region. It gives an accurate assessment and analysis of information for the South West, across a broad range of policy themes, presenting key issues and priorities along with supporting data.  

This is a product for the South West demonstrating collaborative working and drawing on an extensive reservoir of knowledge. Contributors to the report range from academics, researchers and policy analysts. The report not only presents individual topics, but reflects the links between cross-cutting themes, integrating these into the report.  

The South West Observatory network has a vision that all policy and decision making in and about the region should be based on sound evidence and aims for the network to be the first port of call for such intelligence. Access to any part of the network provides access to the work of all its members. We hope that this document provides a stimulus for thinking about the region and its parts.

Our network is happy to help think through and find further information needed to inform policy and decision-making, joining up and interpreting information sources. The network can also help in finding partners interested in similar areas of investigation across the region with the aim of reducing duplication and achieving efficiency in, for example, commissioning research.

The Observatory network has once again been busy updating the State of the South West online. This annually updated full online version with underlying data, time series, interpretation and analysis continues to be freely available at www.swo.org.uk It is a great resource, and from April 2009 will be fully searchable.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Nick Chase for his work in pulling together the online and printed documents related to the State of the South West for the last three years. The next printed report will be produced in March 2010. We welcome any comments, suggestions or contributions that you feel would improve our next edition.

Vinita Nawathe

March 2009