The Mining Boom and Western Australia's Changing Landscape: Towards Sustainability or Business as Usual?

Brueckner, Martin; Durey, Angela; Mayes, Robyn; Pforr, Christof

doi:10.5172/rsj.2012.3355

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“…Debates in Australia, Canada, and the US have pointed to some structural underpinnings such as policy ambiguity and indifference; unclear roles and responsibilities for industry, community, and various levels of government; limited structures to support coordination across various levels of government; and a lack of accurate information about the scale and scope of industry projects that shape demands for infrastructure and services in nearby communities (Brueckner et al, 2013;Haslam McKenzie and Rowley, 2013;Rolfe and Kinnear, 2013;Schafft et al, 2014). At the same time, neo-liberal policies have been withdrawing government intervention in community development and moving towards localism or 'responsibilising communities' without flexible and supportive policies and resources for communities and regions undergoing rapid change (Dufty-Jones and Wray, 2013).…”

Section: Restructuring In Resource Regionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Understanding the positive and negative cumulative impacts of multiple industry projects across different resource sectors has been particularly challenging for small local government staff (Brueckner et al, 2013;Measham et al, 2013). Management committees have been used as one mechanism to monitor and address cumulative impacts from resource development (Province of Alberta, 2006).…”

Section: Restructuring In Resource Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Instead, senior governments are calling upon industries to play a larger role in addressing the social impacts through community impact benefit agreements and social impact management plans (Franks, 2012;Storey, 2010). The maneuvering of senior governments to avoid expenses and obligations has produced a "degree of policy inertia despite calls for urgent government action" in rapidly growing communities (Brueckner et al, 2013). This has produced spaces of tension across industries, senior governments, work camps, and communities due to insufficient regulatory and collaborative structures to respond appropriately to the socio-economic pressures in these places (Michell and McManus, 2013).…”

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confidence: 97%

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The structural underpinnings impacting rapid growth in resource regions

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Halseth

Markey

et al. 2016

The Extractive Industries and Society

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A B S T R A C TDecades of economic restructuring have transformed the nature of work and community relationships in resource hinterlands. Towns once built to accommodate large local workforces are now immersed in much more fluid flows of labour and capital. In some resource regions, proposed mining, oil and gas, and hydro projects may provide potential opportunities to diversify and strengthen communities. However, many community and industry stakeholders have concerns about community capacity and readiness for the anticipated "boomtown" circumstance of rapid growth and development. Drawing upon experiences from Canada, the US, Australia, and Scotland, this research examines structural impediments undermining the capacity of local stakeholders to respond to the challenges and opportunities associated with rapid growth and mobile workforces. Our findings suggest that policies and information structures have not been retooled and redesigned to support mobile workforces. Key structural concerns include obsolete policies and regulations to guide the development, tracking, and decommissioning of work camps; limited information and demographic data about mobile workforces; the problem of different methodologies being used to forecast growth and impacts; underdeveloped information management systems to track the cumulative impacts of single and multiple resource projects; and an absence of orientation packages and information portals for industry and mobile workers.

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Section: Restructuring In Resource Regionsmentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Restructuring In Resource Regionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%

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The structural underpinnings impacting rapid growth in resource regions

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Markey

et al. 2016

The Extractive Industries and Society

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“…Brueckner et al . () have suggested that rapid development based on resource extraction was ultimately unsustainable because of the cumulative impacts on infrastructure and Western Australians' quality of life. Cleary () has also considered how benefits from mining to regional communities declined because of a lack of prescriptive government policies promoting regional benefits.…”

Section: Review Of Regional Policy and The Western Australian Resourcmentioning

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Western Australia's Royalties for Regions program: a policy response to growth, regional neglect, and perceived disempowerment

Staden

McKenzie

2019

Geographical Research

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Under the right conditions, compounding socio‐political and economic change can dramatically alter government policy. From 2000, Western Australia, a resource‐rich jurisdiction, experienced significant change owing to a once‐in‐a‐generation resources boom, which forced a break with earlier development approaches. In 2008, regional interventionism returned to the State via the State Government's Royalties for Regions program. Departing from the neo‐liberal tradition, the program allocated 25 per cent of the State's royalty income to non‐metropolitan regions, over and above existing regional allocations, and its success remains disputed. While it is easy to question the program retrospectively, the socio‐economic and political circumstances from 2000 to 2008 reveal a “perfect storm” of conditions enabling the transition from neo‐liberalism to interventionism in regional development. This paper sets out to understand the multi‐faceted conditions that enabled the dramatic paradigm shift embodied by the program. To this end, it examines the State's rural–urban settlement dichotomy, its staples economy, and the policy context leading up to the program. Following that, the paper proposes a causal framework mapping out the factors driving and rationalising the program. These factors are then examined in detail and include perceived rural voter disenchantment, ineffectual regional development policy, the State's mining boom, inadequate regional development funding, the contrasting fortunes of two regions (illustrative of the impact of growth, and the lack thereof), and the political manoeuvring during the 2008 election. Finally, the paper concludes by considering how the conversion of these conditions resulted in the State's most significant regional policy redirection in decades.

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“….uneven development" to provide benchmarks for understanding "the peculiar dynamics of change operating at these finer spatial scales" (Plummer & Tonts, 2013b, p. 227). Previous analyses have focused on resource rich states such as Western Australia (Lawrie et al, 2011;Tonts et al, 2012;Brueckner et al, 2013), particularly in the Pilbara. However, analyses of the geography of "uneven development" in other Australian jurisdictions, like the NT, or with a remote focus, are now only emerging (e.g.…”

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Diversifying Cores but Stagnant Peripheries: Mining and Other Industry Employment Contributions to Development in Local Government Areas of the Northern Territory

Blackwell

McFarlane

Fischer

et al. 2017

J of App Econs and Policy

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The economic structure of local government areas (LGAs) of the Northern Territory (NT) are mapped and analysed using economic base theory. Using a three‐stage geospatial visualisation we find that: (i) Mining and agriculture are predominantly providing job concentration in a handful of remote LGAs. (ii) Employment growth is derived from public services, with private sector industries contributing almost equally in most LGAs. (iii) NT LGAs exhibit core‐periphery characteristics including vulnerable peripheries, often alongside mature mining operations. (iv) However, mature mining is also found alongside diversified sub‐cores, providing a model for more vulnerable LGAs.

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The Mining Boom and Western Australia's Changing Landscape: Towards Sustainability or Business as Usual?

Cited by 7 publications

References 38 publications

The structural underpinnings impacting rapid growth in resource regions

The structural underpinnings impacting rapid growth in resource regions

Western Australia's Royalties for Regions program: a policy response to growth, regional neglect, and perceived disempowerment

Diversifying Cores but Stagnant Peripheries: Mining and Other Industry Employment Contributions to Development in Local Government Areas of the Northern Territory

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