Studying Resource-Dependent Communities Through a Social-Ecological Lens? Examining Complementarity with Existing Research Traditions in Canada

Teitelbaum, Sara; Montpetit, Annie; Bissonnette, Jean‐François; Chion, Clément; Chiasson, Guy; Doyon, Frédérik; Dupras, Jérôme; Fortin, Marie-José; Leclerc, Édith; St-Amour, Cynthia; Tardif, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/08941920.2018.1517913

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“…In the past, and reflecting environmentalist values of an earlier age, mining corporations abandoned mine sites, leaving the government responsible for cleaning up. In addition, communities can quickly become economically reliant on a mine and consequently suffer from dislocations associated with mine closures that often occur with little warning (Teitelbaum et al, 2019).…”

Section: The Growth and Challenges Of Resource Extractionmentioning

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Local Communities and the Mining Industry

Brunet¹,

Longboat²

2023

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This book explores the challenges and opportunities at the intersection of the global mining sector and local communities by focusing on a number of international cases drawn from various locations in Canada, the Philippines, and Scandinavia.Mining's contribution to economic development varies greatly across countries. In some, it has been a major engine of development, but in others, disputes have erupted over land use, property rights, environmental damage, and revenue sharing. Corporate social responsibility programs are increasingly relied upon to manage company-community relations, yet conflicts persist in many settings, with significant costs for companies and communities. Exploring the many factors and drivers that characterize relationships among different actors within the sector, the volume contributes towards the development of practical wisdom, collective understanding, common sense, and prudence required for the mining sector and community partners to realize the economic potential and social and environmental responsibilities of non-renewable resource development. The book examines case studies from Canada, Scandinavia, and the Philippines, three regions amongst the world's top countries of mining operations. Drawing on their extensive experience in these regions, the contributors explore distinctive mining sectors in the Global North and South, the variation surrounding different types of extractive industries, and at different scales, and the legal processes in place to protect local communities. Key themes include corporate social responsibility, impact assessment, foreign ownership, Indigenous Peoples, gender, local insurgency, and mining disasters as well as climate change. The book identifies areas of future research and pathways to achieving stronger, respectful, and mutually beneficial relationships at the nexus of global mineral extraction and local communities. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the extractive industries, natural resource management, sustainable business and corporate social responsibility, Indigenous studies, and sustainable planning and development.

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“…On the other hand, communities have to ensure that the benefits remain in the local areas as much as is possible. Some communities have found jobs and economic returns minimised when fly in-fly out workers are used and service and supply companies are based in distant centres (Teitelbaum et al, 2019).…”

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Local Communities and the Mining Industry

Brunet¹,

Longboat²

2023

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“…Monitoring SES change using mixed methods research is increasingly salient in our current epoch of the Anthropocene, where humans now influence ecosystems in locally nuanced and complex ways (Bennett et al 2016). Those living in communities reliant upon resource-based industries, such as oil and gas, agriculture, forestry, or fishing, are being particularly affected by our rapidly changing environment and attitudes toward resource management, including people's experience of local resource availability, global markets and fluctuating commodity prices, and institutional or community level governance structures (Berkes et al 2009, Perry et al 2011, Robson et al 2016, Teitelbaum et al 2019. These changes to SES are likely to be experienced differently depending on the unique relationships between people in resource-dependent places and the ability of SES to adapt to change (Anguelovski et al 2016).…”

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Social-ecological resilience through a biocultural lens: a participatory methodology to support global targets and local priorities

Ungar¹,

McRuer²,

Liu³

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More research is needed to properly represent social-ecological system (SES) interactions that support the integrity of biological and cultural, i.e., biocultural, relationships in places experiencing environmental, economic, and social change. In this paper we offer a novel methodology to address this need through the development of place-based indicators and engagement of young people as coresearchers in two communities that rely on resource extraction industries (specifically, oil and gas) in Canada and South Africa. Young people's SES experiences were explored through a suite of participatory qualitative methods, including Q methodology, visioning exercises, ESRI Survey 123, participatory mapping and photography, and spatial image capture via unmanned aerial vehicles, i.e., drones. These methods support a biocultural approach to SES research that seeks to better understand the significant SES relationships at stake in changing environmental, economic, and social context. Here we present our research process and conclude that a focus on place supports the feedback loop between existing SES frameworks and local experiences. We suggest that this methodology can be amended for diverse localities and unique populations to support the development of efficacious policies, SES management, and community efforts toward building resilience, sustainability, and well-being of both humans and natural environments.

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Redefining the Role of Structures to Change Sectoral Resources Governance Towards Sustainable and Inclusive Management

Amedzro St-Hilaire

2024

Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective

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This article offers a new perspective on public management for sectoral governance. It explains how the role of structures has evolved and redefined, and how this evolution has created new ways of public action. The research method used is developmental content analysis with a focus on qualitative study. This process involves transcribing qualitative data, developing an analytical framework, coding the collected information and analyzing it. The framework ensures consistent analysis of the evolution and redefinition of structures related to sectorial management. The analysis reveals the diversification of practices and the implementation of new modes of public management. In addition to more decentralized management, the involvement of regional county municipalities allows the implementation of management-oriented projects. The analysis demonstrates that reconciling the demands of sectorial management with the socioeconomic reality of the regions is not always easy and that there are still many obstacles in the path of establishing and maintaining innovative sectorial management practices. This article identifies the obstacles to sectoral management, including a cumbersome regulatory framework, low levels of government support for the regional county municipalities, a lack of human and material resources, and a low level of public interest. It also provides references for the evolution of sectorial management in other regions of the world.

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Studying Resource-Dependent Communities Through a Social-Ecological Lens? Examining Complementarity with Existing Research Traditions in Canada

Cited by 6 publications

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Local Communities and the Mining Industry

Local Communities and the Mining Industry

Social-ecological resilience through a biocultural lens: a participatory methodology to support global targets and local priorities

Redefining the Role of Structures to Change Sectoral Resources Governance Towards Sustainable and Inclusive Management

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