Canada's resource economy

Hayter, Roger; Barnes, Trevor J.

doi:10.1111/j.1541-0064.2001.tb01165.x

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“…Sufficient economic diversification outside of resource production is seen as critical to the economic health of communities, mitigating the inherit instability and vulnerability of single resource communities to downsizing and closures (Gunton, ; Hayter, ; Keeling, ). Such diversification is thought to occur when investment in, and establishment of, demand linkages are facilitated by the activities of small business entrepreneurs living in regional communities (Walker, ) and may also be inhibited by the quick exportation of extracted resources from peripheral regions to the urban core (Hayter and Barnes, ). Governments play a major role in these dynamics because of their capacity to increase employment and open up regions for settlement by funding infrastructure to transport resources from often inaccessible or harsh terrain of peripheral resource areas to the urban core (Hayter and Barnes, ; Tonts et al , ; Watkins, ; Wellstead, ).…”

Section: From Resource Exploitation To Diversified Resource Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, resource extraction has increasingly meant resource peripheries are characterised by ‘branch plants of multinational corporations’ (Hayter and Barnes, , p. 38) and an adaptive workforce to accommodate the ‘temporal and uneven working life’ of the resource industry (Bradbury, , p. 311). As a result, in countries such as Australia, there is a rising preference for long distance commute (LDC) arrangements where companies provide temporary living arrangements for workers in a fixed‐period rotation of on‐site work and at‐home rest (Markey, ; Storey, ).…”

Section: From Resource Exploitation To Diversified Resource Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a result, in countries such as Australia, there is a rising preference for long distance commute (LDC) arrangements where companies provide temporary living arrangements for workers in a fixed‐period rotation of on‐site work and at‐home rest (Markey, ; Storey, ). Described by Hayter and Barnes (, p. 39) as ‘new kind of flexibility, new relations around trade, and a different environment sensibility affecting the very markets for staples’, LDC represents a post‐Fordist shift towards more flexible means of production (cf. Hayter, ).…”

Section: From Resource Exploitation To Diversified Resource Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Regional development in a resource production system: long distance commuting, population growth, and wealth redistribution in the Western Australia Goldfields

Martinus

2016

Geographical Research

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Resource towns often exist on a knife‐edge, largely depending upon global demand for their resource/s and, at the same time, playing a critical role in the development of a nation. The transition from single resource towns to diversified economies has been modelled on several occasions, but their application to other resource locales is difficult given the unique interplay of geographic, political, social, and economic factors. Nonetheless, Innis' Canadian staples theory may explain the political motivations of resource extraction and exportation, not least in relation to the Western Australia Goldfields. This paper seeks to explore the theory's potential in this context by examining the implications of high labour mobility. It employs a two‐step process using, first, a social network analysis to map the entire Australian labour commuting network and, second, a regression analysis of commuting, regional wealth, and population size against population change. While the Goldfields historically grew in line with processes described by Innis' theory, contemporary high labour mobility has created a variegated landscape of different development dynamics and trajectories. This finding carries implications for network patterns of residence and work. Labour acts to extend the distribution of wealth by sending incomes to the metropolitan core and to amenity‐rich regional towns across the State and nation. In such light, regional development scholars must view the resource town in its broader urban system of distinct but interlocked, and sometimes overlapping, activity nodes.

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Section: From Resource Exploitation To Diversified Resource Communitymentioning

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Section: From Resource Exploitation To Diversified Resource Communitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: From Resource Exploitation To Diversified Resource Communitymentioning

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Regional development in a resource production system: long distance commuting, population growth, and wealth redistribution in the Western Australia Goldfields

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2016

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“…But it was a bastardized form of Fordism characterized by much higher levels of exports and external control than found in the Fordism of core manufacturing regions. Jane Jenson (1989), for example, uses the term ‘permeable Fordism’ to describe the Fordism of Canada's resource periphery because both its investment capital and its primary markets lay outside the country, primarily in the United States (Hayter and Barnes 2001). In addition, resource industries, but not secondary manufacturing, experience the effects of a resource cycle (Mather 1990; Clapp 1998).…”

Section: Resource Peripheries and Globalizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Relocating resource peripheries to the core of economic geography's theorizing: rationale and agenda

Hayter

Barnes

Bradshaw

2003

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Theorizing in economic geography has focused on core regions, industrial and non-industrial, old and new. Indeed, contemplation of the idea of globalization has reinforced this quest. This paper disputes this blinkered thinking that peripheralizes resource peripheries, and seeks to re-position and emphasize resource peripheries within economic geography's theoretical agenda, specifically that associated with the new 'institutional' approach. A truly 'global' economic geography cannot afford to ignore resource peripheries. In particular, we argue that characterizing resource peripheries, and making them distinct from cores, is the intersection of four sets of institutional values or dimensions which we summarize in terms of industrialism (economic dimension), environmentalism (environmental dimension), aboriginalism (cultural dimension) and imperialism (geopolitical dimension). This admittedly preliminary framework underlies our hypothesis that resource peripheries around the world have become deeply contested spaces, much more so than those found in cores.

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“…There was, however, nothing automatic about this type of economy. Its occurrence and shape was the result of an intertwining of forces of geography, institutions, technology, transportation systems and power relations (Hayter and Barnes 2001). Dunk (1991) points out that the hinterlands have been very much part of the nation‐building history of this country.…”

Section: The Hinterland Character Of the Okanaganmentioning

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Work hard, play hard: selling Kelowna, BC, as year‐round playground

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Tomic²,

Trumper³

2005

Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes

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A keen interest in place making and place selling is widespread in contemporary society. While the bulk of academic research has focused on studying the restructuring of large urban conglomerates, places beyond the exploding metropolis, by comparison, have received little attention, especially when it concerns Canadian landscapes. In an attempt to study the particularities of place making in contemporary smaller, more isolated communities—hinterlands—this work analyses the city of Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada. We argue that historically Kelowna, a small rural community specialising in ranching, forestry and fruit production, since the early 1980s, has been re‐imagined and re‐designed, on the one hand as an all‐year playground and as an innovative frontier for high‐tech industries; on the other hand, this post‐Fordist reinvention contains a discourse of ‘whiteness’, one that entices by packaging ‘place’ in terms of ‘sameness’ and ‘familiarity’. In contrast to large cosmopolitan post‐industrial cities, hinterland‐type cities are invented, sought and lived as geographies cleared from the ‘elements’ that make cities ‘unsafe’.

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Canada's resource economy

Cited by 38 publications

References 14 publications

Regional development in a resource production system: long distance commuting, population growth, and wealth redistribution in the Western Australia Goldfields

Regional development in a resource production system: long distance commuting, population growth, and wealth redistribution in the Western Australia Goldfields

Relocating resource peripheries to the core of economic geography's theorizing: rationale and agenda

Work hard, play hard: selling Kelowna, BC, as year‐round playground

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