Coal mining and the resource community cycle: A longitudinal assessment of the social impacts of the Coppabella coal mine

Lockie, Stewart; Franettovich, Maree; Petkova-Timmer, Vanessa; Rolfe, John; Ivanova, Galina

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2009.01.008

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“…Traffic and crime have been observed to increase in host communities with the onset of large-scale mining. For example, two social impact assessment (SIA) studies of Central Queensland's Coppabella coal mine report that residents perceive that crime risk, general anti-social behavior and crimes against property were increasing in the community [82]. The police confirmed this observation in absolute terms, although they observed that the criminal activity increase was proportional to population growth from 2003 to 2006.…”

Section: Negative Impactsmentioning

confidence: 51%

“…Traffic increase has also been observed in the SIA studies [82]. For instance, residents near the Coppabella coal mine in Australia believed that traffic volumes and accidents have increased, including the large trailers and mining equipment.…”

Section: Negative Impactsmentioning

confidence: 80%

“…The additional traffic can be associated with miners traveling between their residence and employment site. Other studies (environmental impact assessments (EIAs)) in Bowen Basin, Australia, also observe an increase in road traffic and traffic incidents [82,84]. A possible reason for the increased traffic incidents is the higher occurrence of drivers travelling home while fatigued after the end of their shift.…”

Section: Negative Impactsmentioning

confidence: 94%

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Eliciting Drivers of Community Perceptions of Mining Projects through Effective Community Engagement

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Sustainable mining has received much attention in recent years as a consequence of the negative impacts of mining and public awareness. The aim of this paper is to provide mining companies guidance on improving the sustainability of their sites through effective community engagement based on recent advances in the literature. It begins with a review of the literature on sustainable development and its relationship to stakeholder engagement. It then uses the literature to determine the dominant factors that affect community perceptions of mining projects. These factors are classified into five categories: environmental, economic, social, governance and demographic factors. Then, we propose a new two-stage method based on discrete choice theory and the classification that can improve stakeholder engagement and be cost-effective. Further work is required to validate the proposed method, although it shows potential to overcome some of the challenges plaguing current approaches.

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“…As a consequence they often fail to capture positive effects from resource-led economic development (Lockie et al, 2009). Some communities focus their energy on resisting the resources sector, leading to costly delays in production, however conflict alone has limited potential to improve final outcomes for regional communities (Franks et al, 2014;Schandl and Darbas, 2008).…”

Section: Responding To Challenges At the Regional Scale: The Importanmentioning

confidence: 99%

A conceptual model of the socioeconomic impacts of unconventional fossil fuel extraction

Measham

Fleming

Schandl

2016

Global Environmental Change

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As global energy demand increases, the rapid expansion of the unconventional fossil fuel sector has triggered an urgent need for social, economic and policy research to understand and predict how this sector affects host communities and how governance systems can respond to changes presented by this sector. In response to this need, this paper addresses three linked objectives. The first is to review the literature on regional impacts of energy extraction, presented in the form of a framework of hierarchical effects. The second is to consider how these are playing out differently in the context of conventional compared with unconventional fossil fuels. The third is to draw attention to the institutional avenues for addressing these impacts, including an overview of the lessons from existing research on the human and policy dimensions associated with conventional energy industries. In particular, we consider the importance of multistakeholder dialogue, which plays an important role in how regions respond to the challenges brought about through extractive industries. Overall, we demonstrate that experiences from conventional energy development provide a useful starting point for navigating the human and policy dimensions of unconventional energy for host communities and discuss how these experiences differ when unconventional energy seeks to co-exist with other land uses such as agriculture. The paper draws attention to the dispersed nature of impacts (positive and negative) and how this may shape winners and losers from unconventional energy development, particularly in regions with pre-existing land uses such as agriculture.

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“…Thus within this framework we can study a) impacts during the entire cycle of the project, including its management after construction and its long-term effects (longitudinal) (Lockie, 2009); interactions between environmental and social (relational) changes (Van Schooten et al, 2003); and c) local, socio-cultural and institutional contexts where the project is carried out (contextual) (Burdge and Vanclay, 1995).…”

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Using causal maps to support ex-post assessment of social impacts of dams

Aledo

García-Andreu

Pinese

2015

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

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This paper presents the results of an ex-post assessment of two important dams in Brazil. The study follows the principles of Social Impact Management, which offer a suitable framework for analyzing the complex social transformations triggered by hydroelectric dams. In the implementation of this approach, participative causal maps were used to identify the ex-post social impacts of the Porto Primavera and Rosana dams on the community of Porto Rico, located along the High Paraná River. We found that in the operation of dams there are intermediate causes of a political nature, stemming from decisions based on values and interests not determined by neutral, exclusively technical reasons; and this insight opens up an area of action for managing the negative impacts of dams.

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Coal mining and the resource community cycle: A longitudinal assessment of the social impacts of the Coppabella coal mine

Cited by 145 publications

References 13 publications

Eliciting Drivers of Community Perceptions of Mining Projects through Effective Community Engagement

Eliciting Drivers of Community Perceptions of Mining Projects through Effective Community Engagement

A conceptual model of the socioeconomic impacts of unconventional fossil fuel extraction

Using causal maps to support ex-post assessment of social impacts of dams

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