Planning regional development in Australia: questions of mobility and borders

Dufty‐Jones, Rae; Wray, Felicity

doi:10.1080/07293682.2013.776979

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“…Local governments have been lobbying senior levels of government for more resources and appropriate policies to support growth. A key barrier continues to be senior government’s emphasis on short-term funding programmes (Dufty-Jones and Wray, 2013). In some jurisdictions, industry-government disputes and political maneuvering to determine who is responsible for investments in infrastructure and programmes has left communities with underdeveloped infrastructure capacity and rising housing costs (Haslam McKenzie, 2013).…”

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New mobile realities in mature staples-dependent resource regions: Local governments and work camps

Ryser

Halseth

Markey

et al. 2016

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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In resource-dependent regions, work camps have reshaped workforce recruitment and retention strategies and relationships with communities as they are increasingly deployed within municipal boundaries. This has prompted important, but controversial, questions about local government policies and regulations guiding workforce accommodations to support rapid growth in resource regions. Even as mobile workforces become more prevalent, however, few researchers have examined the development, operations, and decommissioning of these work camps. Drawing upon the experiences of local governments in Australia, Canada, Scotland, and the United States, this research examines how mobile workforces are shaping the opportunities and challenges of planning and local government operations through work camps integrated in mature staplesdependent resource regions. Our findings reveal that while some industries have taken the initiative to implement new protocols and operating procedures to improve the quality and safety of work camp environments, local governments have underdeveloped policy tools and capacities to guide the development, operations, and decommissioning of work camps. Failure to purposefully address work camps as a land-use issue, however, is significant for mature staplesdependent towns that ultimately fail to capture taxation revenues while incurring the accelerating costs for infrastructure and services associated with large mobile workforces.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

New mobile realities in mature staples-dependent resource regions: Local governments and work camps

Ryser

Halseth

Markey

et al. 2016

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Third, the LVTC could be an example of Australia's 1990s corporatist model of structural adjustment, a group bringing established regional interests to the table to thrash out solutions to difficult industrial transition problems (Fairbrother et al ., ). Fourth, as suggested by Dufty‐Jones and Wray (), the LVTC might be a local expression of European‐style collaborative multilevel governance exemplifying the applicability of European devolution policies to Australian circumstances. Fifth, the LVTC could be understood as a vehicle of socio‐technical transition management, as concentrating expertise to bypass the ‘lock‐in’ of established institutional arrangements, and as designed to generate novel solutions to the complexly ‘wicked’ problems of climate change (Zinn and Fitzsimmons, ).…”

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Fast Parallels? Contesting Mobile Policy Technologies

Weller

2017

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article extends recent examinations of incomplete or disrupted policy mobility by examining the politically volatile case of policies to manage the regional impacts of decarbonization in Australia. The article's extended case study shows how political interests differently incorporated figments of circulating policy into longstanding debates and how more‐than‐local political networks defeated an antipolitical, technocratic exercise in ‘new regional’ governance. ‘Follow the policy’ methods could not have revealed the complexities of this case. The article concludes that mobilities approaches need to be more attentive to institutional arrangements, to the contested politics of policy formation and to the ambiguities of perceived policy likenesses. This case highlights the importance of considering how antipolitical institutional architectures facilitating policy mobility relate to established political power networks.

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“…Neo-liberal policy shifts, however, are also reshaping the roles of communities, industries, and senior governments in resource regions through the withdrawal of critical senior government policy and program supports (Dufty-Jones and Wray, 2013;Heisler and Markey, 2014). 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).…”

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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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Planning regional development in Australia: questions of mobility and borders

Cited by 13 publications

References 26 publications

New mobile realities in mature staples-dependent resource regions: Local governments and work camps

New mobile realities in mature staples-dependent resource regions: Local governments and work camps

Fast Parallels? Contesting Mobile Policy Technologies

The structural underpinnings impacting rapid growth in resource regions

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