Rural Communities in Transition and Sustainable Regional Development
Mining and farming have been important industries to the Australian economy since colonial times but the industries have generally operated in separate regions with limited overlaps. Over the last decade mining activity has surpassed agriculture in both return on investment and contribution to gross...
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Rural Development Institute, Brandon University
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| author | McKenzie, Fiona Haslam Hoath, Aileen Buckley, Amma Greer, L. Rolfe, J. |
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| description | Mining and farming have been important industries to the Australian economy since colonial times but the industries have generally operated in separate regions with limited overlaps. Over the last decade mining activity has surpassed agriculture in both return on investment and contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) and farming has continued to lose its share of economic contribution. To date, most mining activity has been in remote and regional areas of Australia where the deposits are richest, but sophisticated extractive processes and high returns are now making deposits viable which hither to have been considered marginal, many of which are in communities where farming has been the main industry. This paper will consider case study sites where mining is increasingly encroaching on what has been traditionally productive farming land. For some communities, mining is welcomed as an important off-farm income, for others, mining is viewed as an environmental and social threat to the agricultural industry. The stresses and strains as well as the opportunities presented by transitional rural economies will be considered. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-478592017-01-30T15:36:09Z Rural Communities in Transition and Sustainable Regional Development McKenzie, Fiona Haslam Hoath, Aileen Buckley, Amma Greer, L. Rolfe, J. socio-economic development mining agriculture farming Mining and farming have been important industries to the Australian economy since colonial times but the industries have generally operated in separate regions with limited overlaps. Over the last decade mining activity has surpassed agriculture in both return on investment and contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) and farming has continued to lose its share of economic contribution. To date, most mining activity has been in remote and regional areas of Australia where the deposits are richest, but sophisticated extractive processes and high returns are now making deposits viable which hither to have been considered marginal, many of which are in communities where farming has been the main industry. This paper will consider case study sites where mining is increasingly encroaching on what has been traditionally productive farming land. For some communities, mining is welcomed as an important off-farm income, for others, mining is viewed as an environmental and social threat to the agricultural industry. The stresses and strains as well as the opportunities presented by transitional rural economies will be considered. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47859 http://www.jrcd.ca/viewarticle.php?id=1157&layout=abstract Rural Development Institute, Brandon University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | socio-economic development mining agriculture farming McKenzie, Fiona Haslam Hoath, Aileen Buckley, Amma Greer, L. Rolfe, J. Rural Communities in Transition and Sustainable Regional Development |
| title | Rural Communities in Transition and Sustainable Regional Development |
| title_full | Rural Communities in Transition and Sustainable Regional Development |
| title_fullStr | Rural Communities in Transition and Sustainable Regional Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rural Communities in Transition and Sustainable Regional Development |
| title_short | Rural Communities in Transition and Sustainable Regional Development |
| title_sort | rural communities in transition and sustainable regional development |
| topic | socio-economic development mining agriculture farming |
| url | http://www.jrcd.ca/viewarticle.php?id=1157&layout=abstract http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/47859 |