The resource boom and socio-economic well-being in Australian resource towns: A temporal and spatial analysis

Urban Geography

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 629-653

  Chapman, Rachel ^a   Plummer, Paul ^a   Tonts, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

empirical modelling; mining towns; resource dependence; socio economic well being; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

MINING INDUSTRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESOURCE ECONOMY; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN ECONOMY;

AUSTRALIA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84930925872     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2015.1018032     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Altman, Morris. (2003). Staple theory and exportled growth: Constructing differential growth. Australian Economic History Review, 43(3), 230-255.
2. Argent, Neil. (2013). Reinterpreting core and periphery in Australia's mineral and energy resources boom: An Innisian perspective on the Pilbara. Australian Geographer, 44(3), 323-340.
3. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). (2002). Census of population and housing 2001: Urban centre and locality community profiles (ABS Catalogue No. 2001.0). Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
4. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). (2007). Census of population and housing 2006: Urban centre and locality community profiles (ABS Catalogue No. 2001.0). Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
5. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). (2012). Census of population and housing 2011: Urban centre and locality community profiles (ABS Catalogue No. 2001.0). Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
6. Australian Taxation Office (ATO). (2002). Taxation statistics 2000-2001. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.
7. Australian Taxation Office (ATO). (2007). Taxation statistics 2005-2006. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.
8. Australian Taxation Office (ATO). (2012). Taxation statistics 2010-2011. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.
9. Barnes, Trevor J., & Hayter, Roger. (1992). 'The little town that did': Flexible accumulation and community response in Chemainus, British Columbia. Regional Studies, 26(7), 647-663.
10. Barnes, Trevor J. (1999). Industrial geography, institutional economics and Innis. In T. Barnes & M. S. Gertler, (Eds.), The new industrial geography: Regions, regulation and institutions (pp. 1-22). London: Routledge.
11. Baum, Scott. (2006). A typology of socio-economic advantage and disadvantage in Australia's large non-metropolitan cities, towns and regions. Australian Geographer, 37, 233-258.
12. Baum, Scott, Haynes, Michele, Van Gellecum, Yolanda, & Han, Jung Hoon. (2007). Considering regional socio-economic outcomes in non-metropolitan Australia: A typology building approach. Papers in Regional Science, 86(2), 261-286.
13. Bell, Martin J. (1996). Understanding internal migration. Canberra: Australian Government Publishing Service.
14. Bradbury, John, & St. Martin, Isabelle. (1983). Winding down in a Quebec mining town: A case study of Schefferville. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 27, 128-144.
15. Carrington, Kerry, & Pereira, Margaret. (2011). Assessing the social impacts of the resources boom on rural communities. Rural Society, 21(1), 2-20.
16. Chapman, Rachel, Tonts, Matthew, & Plummer, Paul. (2014). Resource development, local adjustment and regional policy: Resolving the problem of rapid growth in the Pilbara, Western Australia. Journal of Rural and Community Development, 9(1), 72-86.
17. Christopherson, Susan, & Rightor, Ned. (2012). How shale gas extraction affects drilling localities: Lessons for regional and city policy makers. Journal of Town and City Management, 2(4), 350-368.
18. Commonwealth of Australia. (2013). Cancer of the bush or salvation for our cities?: Fly-in, fly-out and drive-in, drive-out workforce practices in regional Australia. Canberra: House of Representatives Standing Committee on Regional Australia.
19. Department of Local Government and Regional Development (DLGRD). (2001). Regional prices index 2001. Perth: Government of Western Australia.
20. Department of Local Government and Regional Development (DLGRD). (2007). Regional prices index 2007. Perth: Government of Western Australia.
21. Department of Mines and Petroleum. (2002). Western Australian mineral and petroleum statistics digest 2001. Perth: Government of Western Australia.
22. Department of Mines and Petroleum. (2007). Western Australian mineral and petroleum statistics digest 2006. Perth: Government of Western Australia.
23. Department of Mines and Petroleum. (2012). Western Australian mineral and petroleum statistics digest 2011. Perth: Government of Western Australia.
24. Department of Mines and Petroleum. (2013). Western Australian mineral and petroleum statistics digest 2012-2013. Perth: Government of Western Australia.
25. Department of Mines and Petroleum. (2014). Western Australian mineral and petroleum statistics digest 2013. Perth: Government of Western Australia.
26. Department of Regional Development and Lands (RDL). (2011). Regional prices index 2011. Perth: Government of Western Australia.
27. Freudenburg, William R. (1992). Addictive economies: Extractive industries and vulnerable localities in a changing world economy. Rural Sociology, 57, 305-332.
28. Freudenburg, William R., & Wilson, Lisa J. (2002). Mining the data: Analyzing the economic implications of mining for Nonmetropolitan regions. Sociological Inquiry, 72, 549-575.
29. Gier, Jaclyn, & Mercier, Laurie. (2006). Mining women: Gender in the development of a global industry, 1670-2005. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.
30. Gilmore, John, & Duff, Mary K. (1975). Boom town growth management: A case study of Rock Springs-Green River, Wyoming. Boulder: Westview Press.
31. Gunton, Thomas. (2003). Natural resources and regional development: An assessment of dependency and comparative advantage paradigms. Economic Geography, 79(1), 67-94.
32. Hajkowicz, Stefan, Heyenga, Sonja, & Moffat, Kieran. (2011). The relationship between mining and socio-economic wellbeing in Australia's regions. Resources Policy, 36, 30-38.
33. Halseth, Greg. (1999). 'We came for the work': Situating employment migration in B.C.'s small, resource-based communities. The Canadian Geographer, 43, 363-381.
34. Haslam-McKenzie, Fiona, Phillips, Rhonda, Rowley, Steven, Brereton, David, & Birdsall-Jones, Christina. (2009). Housing market dynamics in resource boom towns. Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (Final Report No. 135). Perth: Housing and Urban Research Institute of Western Australia.
35. Hayter, Roger, & Barnes, Trevor. (1990). Innis' staple theory, exports, and recession: British Columbia, 1981-86. Economic Geography, 66(2), 156-173.
36. Hayter, Roger, & Barnes, Trevor. (2001). Canada's resource economy. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 45(1), 36-41.
37. Hendry, David F. (2000). Econometrics: Alchemy or science. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
38. Himelfarb, Alex. (1976). The social characteristics of one-industry towns in Canada: A background report to the Royal Commission on Corporate Concentration. Ottawa: Ministry of Supply and Services.
39. Horsley, Julia. (2013). Conceptualising the state, governance and development in a semi-peripheral resource economy: The evolution of state agreements in Western Australia. Australian Geographer, 44(3), 283-303.
40. Hugo, Graeme, & Bell, Martin. (1998). The hypothesis of welfare-led migration to rural areas: The Australian case. In P. Boyle & K. Halfacree (Eds.), Migration into rural areas (pp. 107-133). Adelaide: John Wiley and Sons.
41. Innis, Harold A. (1956 [1930]). The fur trade in Canada, An introduction to Canadian economic history. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
42. Kennedy, Peter. (2008). A guide to econometrics. Oxford: Blackwell Press.
43. Kohrs, Eldean V. (1974). Social consequences of boom growth in Wyoming. Paper presented at the regional meetings of the Rocky Mountain Association for the Advancement of Science, Laramie, WY.
44. Krannich, R S. (1979). A comparative analysis of factors influencing the socioeconomic impacts of electric generating facilities. Socio-economic Planning Sciences, 13, 41-46.
45. Langton, Marcia, & Mazel, Odette. (2008). Poverty in the midst of plenty: Aboriginal people, the 'resource curse' and Australia's mining boom. Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law, 26 (1), 31-65.
46. Lawrie, Misty, Tonts, Matthew, & Plummer, Paul. (2011). Boomtowns, resource dependence and socio-economic well-being. Australian Geographer, 42(2), 139-164.
47. Leatherman, John C., & Marcouiller, David W. (1996). Persistent poverty and natural resource dependence: Rural development policy analysis that incorporates income distribution. Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy, 26(2), 73-93.
48. Little, Ronald. (1977). Some social consequences of boom towns. North Dakota Law Review, 52, 101-125.
49. McCarty, John W. (1964). The staple approach in Australian economic history. Business Archives and History, 4(1), 1-22.
50. McDonald, Paula, Mayes, Robyn, & Pini, Barbara. (2012). Mining work, family and community: A spatially-oriented approach to the impact of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine closure in remote Australia. Journal of Industrial Relations, 54(1), 22-40.
51. McIntosh, Alison. (2012). Thinking space: Ten truths about Australia's rush to mine and the mining workforce. Australian Geographer, 43(4), 331-337.
52. Neil, Cecily, Tykkylainen, Markku, & Bradbury, John. (Eds.). (1992). Coping with closure: An international comparison of mine town experiences. London: Routledge.
53. Nelson, Peter. (2001). Rural restructuring in the American West: Land use, family and class discourses. Journal of Rural Studies, 17(4), 395-407.
54. Nord, Mark, & Luloff, Al. (1993). Socioeconomic heterogeneity of mining-dependent counties. Rural Sociology, 58(3), 492-500.
55. O'Connor, Kevin, & Kershaw, Lorna. (1999). Outsourcing, producer services and shifts in the geography of the Australian mining industry. Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 5(1), 73-86.
56. Pini, Barbara, Mayes, Robyn, & McDonald, Paula. (2010). The emotional geography of a mine closure: A study of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine in Western Australia. Social & Cultural Geography, 11(6), 559-574.
57. Plummer, Paul, & Tonts, Matthew. (2013). Do history and geography matter Regional unemployment dynamics in a resource-dependent economy: Evidence from Western Australia, 1984-2011. Environment and Planning A, 45(12), 2919-2938.
58. Putnam, Robert D. (1993). The prosperous community. The American Prospect, 4(13), 35-42.
59. Randall, James E., & Ironside, R. Geoff. (1996). Communities on the edge: An economic geography of resource-dependent communities in Canada. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien, 40(1), 17-35.
60. Reeson, Andrew, Measham, Thomas, & Hosking, Karin. (2012). Mining activity, income inequality and gender in regional Australia. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 56(2), 302-313.
61. Rolfe, John, Miles, Bob, Lockie, Stewart, & Ivanova, Galina. (2007). Lessons from the social and economic impacts of the mining boom in the Bowen Basin 2004-2006. The Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, 13(2), 134.
62. Smith, Michael, Krannich, Richard S., & Hunter, Lori. (2001). Growth, decline, stability, and disruption: A longitudinal analysis of social well?being in four western rural communities. Rural Sociology, 66(3), 425-450.
63. Stedman, Richard, Parkins, John, & Beckley, Thomas. (2004). Resource dependence and community well-being in rural Canada. Rural Sociology, 69(2), 213-234.
64. Stimson, Robert, Stough, Roger, & Roberts, Brian. (2002). Regional economic development: Analysis and planning strategy. Berlin: Springer.
65. Thompson, James. (1979). The Gillette Syndrome: A myth revisited? Wyoming Issues, 2(2), 30-35.
66. Tonts, Matthew. (2010). Labour market dynamics in resource dependent regions: An examination of the Western Australian goldfields. Geographical Research, 48(2), 148-165.
67. Tonts, Matthew, Martinus, Kirsten, & Plummer, Paul. (2013). Regional development, redistribution and the extraction of mineral resources: The Western Australian Goldfields as a resource bank. Applied Geography, 45, 365-374.
68. Tonts, Matthew, Plummer, Paul, & Lawrie, Misty. (2012). Socio-economic wellbeing in Australian mining towns: A comparative analysis. Journal of Rural Studies, 28(3), 288-301.
69. University of Adelaide. Accessibility/remoteness index of Australia. Retrieved from http://www. adelaide.edu.au/apmrc/research/projects/category/aria.html.
70. Weber, Jeremy. (2012). The effects of a natural gas boom on employment and income in Colorado, Texas, and Wyoming. Energy Economics, 34(5), 1580-1588.
71. Western Australian Electoral Commission. (2001). 2001 local government postal elections report. Retrieved from http://www.elections.wa.gov.au/elections/local/reports.
72. Western Australian Electoral Commission. (2007). October 2007 voter participation report. Retrieved from http://www.elections.wa.gov.au/elections/local/reports.
73. Western Australian Electoral Commission. (2011). October 2011 voter participation report. Retrieved from http://www.elections.wa.gov.au/elections/local/reports.
74. Wilkinson, Kenneth, Thompson, James, Reynolds, Robert, & Ostresh, Lawrence. (1982). Local social disruption and western energy development. Pacific Sociological Review, 25, 275-296.
75. Wilson, Lisa J. (2004). Riding the resource roller coaster: Understanding socioeconomic differences between mining communities. Rural Sociology, 69(2), 261-281.