Evolutionary governance in mining: Boom and bust in peripheral communities in Sweden

Anshelm, Jonas

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104056

Cited by 9 publications

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“…They may need the training to deal with large oil and gas companies, engage state policy processes on behalf of residents, and develop policy tools (e.g., permitting systems, road use agreements) to cope with impacts (Bohnenkamp et al, 2011; Haggerty & McBride, 2016; Weigle, 2010). State governments can balance information asymmetries in locality‐industry relationships by providing local actors relevant training and supporting local capacity building (Haikola & Anshelm, 2020a). Theoretically, the importance of higher levels of governance acting as a backstop to and supporting local resource governance is widely recognized (Ostrom, 1990; Van Assche, Gruezmacher, & Deacon, 2020).…”

Section: Vertical Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…A number of jurisdictions atop the Bakken Shale in North Dakota have adopted shared service contracts or arrangements to manage boom‐related demands (K. K. Smith et al, 2019). However, some jurisdictions, particularly small ones, may struggle to collaborate because of insufficient funds or technical skills (Haikola & Anshelm, 2020; Weigle, 2010). Lack of personnel with adequate time, resources, or training within small governments is a recognized and pervasive concern throughout the country, extending far beyond the challenges of navigating UOGD.…”

Section: Horizontal Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Wyoming, local governments in Sublette County partner to monitor and mitigate boom‐bust impacts and collaborate with industry to address local concerns (Haggerty & McBride, 2016); this effort has produced a socioeconomic assessment of the boom's local impacts, applications for state infrastructure grants, development and funding of childcare programs, and joint efforts to address housing, training, and substance abuse issues (Haggerty & McBride, 2016). A cautionary note concerning industry‐locality partnerships, particularly those involving voluntary industry action, is that they may allow private sector actors to play an outsized role in local policies and programming, potentially undermining democratic responsiveness and leaving the locality dependent upon industry whims (Haikola and Anshelm 2020a).…”

Section: Horizontal Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development

Arnold

Klasic

Schomburg

et al. 2022

Review of Policy Research

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Scholarship on boom-busts cycles in resource extraction often assumes that affected resource-rich communities are at best reactive, at worst helpless, in the face of the large, exogenous shocks this cycle visits upon them. Researchers infrequently examine what communitiesthemselves can do to improve their economic prospects and residents' quality of life amidst booms and busts. In this review paper, we identify and synthesize work scattered across disparate academic and gray literature-in planning, law, community economic development, rural sociology, economics, and political science, among others-to holistically assess what we know about how communities can use local policymaking to manage impacts of booms and busts associated with unconventional oil and gas drilling (UOGD), often called "fracking." We highlight examples of communities tackling this task using vertical and horizontal governance strategies and distill expert recommendations for how communities can build boom-bust resiliency generally and in key areas impacted by UOGD.

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Section: Vertical Governancementioning

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Section: Horizontal Governancementioning

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Section: Horizontal Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

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Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development

Arnold

Klasic

Schomburg

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Review of Policy Research

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“…Material dependencies could be infrastructure or even the mine dumps created during mining booms that make strategies for decline difficult to implement. Yet not all booms or busts necessarily create these dependencies (Haikola & Anshelm, 2020).…”

Section: The Social Effects Of Mine Closure and The Local Responsesmentioning

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Mine closure, social disruption, and crime in South Africa

Marais

Ndaguba

Mmbadi

et al. 2022

Geographical Journal

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The international literature links mining booms with social disruption. The rapid economic and population growth that mining brings increases urban crime and social problems. But insufficient attention has been paid to the reverse situation: the social disruption that can accompany the closure of a mine. We compare crime statistics for four categories of small city, known in South Africa as “intermediate city municipalities,” from 2009 to 2018. Contrary to the findings of international studies, we find that those where mining was in decline had some of the highest crime rates, particularly in the category of sexual offences, whereas those where mining was growing had the lowest. Our research shows that mine decline and closure can contribute to social disruption. We argue that South African government policy has exacerbated this problem in the context of mine decline and that several dependencies created by mining further contribute to the problem. We challenge the assumption that fast population growth and an increase in the male population are prerequisites for social disruption. Our paper suggests the need for modifications to social disruption theory.

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“…This is in line with research on quantified approaches applied to reduce complexity and "globalize" management concepts and technologies. Hence, they seek to establish level playing fields with less friction for transnational investment, mobility of labor, also softening claims on security and welfare rights (Ernstson & Sörlin, 2013;Haikola & Anshelm, 2019;Porter, 1995). Knowing about that process means a better chance to relate to it and find ways of dealing with it.…”

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confidence: 99%

Wisdom of affect? Emotion, environment, and the future of resource extraction

Sörlin

2021

Polar Record

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The “Arctic Uchronotopias” special issue of Polar Record is an important contribution to scholarly reflection on resource extraction. The ideas, perspectives, and empirical cases that we encounter have significance for extractivism wherever it takes place, both inside and outside of the Arctic region. To see extractivism through an Arctic lens is particularly useful since it brings up many of the issues that are often at stake in extraction activities, but not always at the same time: geopolitics, transboundary relations, environmental and climate impacts, cultural and natural heritage, indigenous relations, rights issues, local and regional development, and lives and fates of communities. Above all, these papers bring out the full spectrum of issues and tensions related to ongoing major global shifts, such as the Great Acceleration and Overheating, and those transformations of which resource extraction forms a major part. The research presented in Arctic Uchronotopias demonstrates that affect and emotions have explanatory value in the geopolitics of Arctic resource extraction. It also shows that emotional and cognitive experience and wisdom carry values and properties that conventional Environmental Impact Assessments and other technologies of evaluation and decision-making can capture.

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Evolutionary governance in mining: Boom and bust in peripheral communities in Sweden

Cited by 9 publications

References 72 publications

Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development

Boom, bust, action! How communities can cope with boom‐bust cycles in unconventional oil and gas development

Mine closure, social disruption, and crime in South Africa

Wisdom of affect? Emotion, environment, and the future of resource extraction

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