The mining boom and Western Australia's changing landscape: Towards sustainability or business as usual?

Rural Society

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 111-124

  Brueckner, Martin ^a   Durey, Angela ^b   Mayes, Robyn ^b   Pforr, Christof ^b  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Developmentalism; Resource based development; Sustainable development; Sustainable mining; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883706561     PISSN: 10371656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5172/rsj.2013.22.2.111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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