The haves and have nots in Australia's Tropical North - New Perspectives on a Persisting Problem

Taylor, Andrew; Larson, Silvia; Stoeckl, Natalie; Carson, Dean B.

doi:10.1111/j.1745-5871.2010.00648.x

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“…Within a country, mining activity tends to be distributed unevenly; this is certainly the case in Australia (Hajkowicz et al. 2011; Taylor et al. 2011).…”

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Mining activity, income inequality and gender in regional Australia*

Reeson¹,

Measham²,

Hosking³

2012

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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Mining activity has been a significant driver of export growth as well as income and employment in parts of regional Australia. However, while income growth is an economic benefit, the high incomes associated with the mining sector may also lead to greater inequality. This paper describes an empirical analysis of mining activity and income inequality in regional Australia. The Gini coefficient (a measure of inequality) for personal income is found to be significantly associated with levels of mining employment. However, this relationship is not linear. Rather, income inequality initially increases with mining activity, before decreasing at medium to high levels of mining employment, following a Kuznets curve pattern. Segregating data for men and women reveals very different patterns. Among men, inequality initially increases as mining employment in a region increases, but then sharply decreases; at high levels of mining activity, income inequality among men is lower than is typically observed in non‐mining areas. Among women, income inequality increases with mining activity throughout its range. This suggests that income inequality is most likely to be a problem in locales with intermediate levels of mining activity and that it affects men and women quite differently.

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“…Within a country, mining activity tends to be distributed unevenly; this is certainly the case in Australia (Hajkowicz et al. 2011; Taylor et al. 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These advantages tend to include relatively strong employment and relatively higher average income across time (Stimson 2001; Baum et al. 2005; Taylor et al. 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mining activity, income inequality and gender in regional Australia*

Reeson¹,

Measham²,

Hosking³

2012

Aus J Agri & Res Econ

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“…Staples theory provides a foundation for understanding the roots of longterm extraction of natural resource commodities in a Canadian context (Innis, 1933); although, it has also been applied to understand extractiondriven economies in other countries, such as Australia and New Zealand (Taylor, Larson, Stoeckl, & Carson, 2011). Developed by Harold Innis in 1933, it describes the dependence of the Canadian economy on the successive export of raw resources.…”

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Opportunities and Challenges to Address Poverty in Rural Regions: A Case Study from Northern BC

Ryser

Halseth

2016

Journal of Poverty

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Despite neo-liberal policies that have been restructuring and regionalizing supports over the past 30 years, most research on rural poverty has been focused at the community level. Exploring regional approaches to address rural poverty is becoming increasingly important as rural organizations have a limited capacity to respond to this complex issue. New regionalism has been one outcome of neo-liberal policies as regions experiment with different institutional structures and relationships to compensate for the government withdrawal of programs. Despite the state's diminished role, however, new regionalism literature has been quite silent about the implications that such shifts have for civil society groups as they work to address rural poverty to allow broader innovations and economic development initiatives to have the greatest impact. Based on a descriptive case study of the Robson Valley in British Columbia, Canada, 22 key informant stakeholder interviews were conducted to explore the implications of new regionalism on regional voluntary sector responses to address rural poverty. Findings suggest that more attention must be paid to strengthen vertical relationships and regional policy imperatives by finding ways to positively construct and maintain regional structures and mechanisms in order to connect stakeholders with a broader range of information, expertise, and resources to address rural poverty.

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“…1). This reflects the impact of physical geography and colonization on indigenous peoples (Davies 2003, Altman et al 2007, Taylor et al 2011. Arid or tropical monsoonal climates and low soil fertility mean that large areas of Australia are relatively unproductive for introduced agricultural systems and were never alienated to nonindigenous interests.…”

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Innovation in Management Plans for Community Conserved Areas: Experiences from Australian Indigenous Protected Areas

Davies¹,

Hill²,

Walsh³

et al. 2013

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ABSTRACT. Increasing attention to formal recognition of indigenous and community conserved areas (ICCAs) as part of national and/or global protected area systems is generating novel encounters between the customary institutions through which indigenous peoples and local communities manage these traditional estates and the bureaucratic institutions of protected area management planning. Although management plans are widely considered to be important to effective management of protected areas, little guidance has been available about how their form and content can effectively reflect the distinctive socio-cultural and political characteristics of ICCAs. This gap has been particularly apparent in Australia where a trend to rapidly increased formal engagement of indigenous people in environmental management resulted, by 2012, in 50 indigenous groups voluntarily declaring their intent to manage all or part of their estates for conservation in perpetuity, as an indigenous protected area (IPA). Development and adoption of a management plan is central to the process through which the Australian Government recognizes these voluntary declarations and invests resources in IPA management. We identified four types of innovations, apparent in some recent IPA plans, which reflect the distinctive socio-cultural and political characteristics of ICCAs and support indigenous people as the primary decision makers and drivers of knowledge integration in IPAs. These are (1) a focus on customary institutions in governance; (2) strategic planning approaches that respond to interlinkages of stewardship between people, place, plants, and animals; (3) planning frameworks that bridge scales by considering values and issues across the whole of an indigenous people's territory; and (4) varied communication modes appropriate to varied audiences, including an emphasis on visual and spatial modes. Further research is warranted into how governance and management of IPAs, and the plans that support these processes, can best engender adaptive management and diverse strong partnerships while managing the risk of partners eroding local control.

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The haves and have nots in Australia's Tropical North - New Perspectives on a Persisting Problem

Cited by 33 publications

References 40 publications

Mining activity, income inequality and gender in regional Australia*

Mining activity, income inequality and gender in regional Australia*

Opportunities and Challenges to Address Poverty in Rural Regions: A Case Study from Northern BC

Innovation in Management Plans for Community Conserved Areas: Experiences from Australian Indigenous Protected Areas

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