Overview
- Assists communities and regional development specialists to understand the ambiguities of growth and garner enduring benefits from resource development
- Offers solutions and alternatives for building resilient and enduring regional and remote communities
- Serves as a reference providing applied socio-economic principles enriched by lived experiences
- Appeals to various stakeholders with the capacity to influence the socio-economic conditions of communities and regions
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Aboriginal Employment in the Resources Industries
- Economic Impact of Resource Industry Boom in Australia
- Impacts of International Long Distance Commuting
- Implications of International Long Distance Commuting
- International Labour in the Western Australia
- Lifecycle Planning for Resource Communities
- Long Distance Commuting on Source Communities
- Planning for the Enduring Community Value from Mining
- Regional Minerals Sector in Western Australia
- Spatially Orientated Complex Modelling and Scenarios
- Western Australian Resource Sector
- Women in the Resources Sector in Australia
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie was educated in Western Australia and the United States and has a varied academic background including a PhD in political geography, researching the socio-economic impacts of the restructuring of the Australian agricultural industry. Fiona has extensive experience in population and socio-economic change, housing, regional economic development and analysis of remote, regional and urban socio-economic indicators. She has published widely and undertaken work for the corporate and small business sectors both nationally and in Western Australia as well conducting work for all three tiers of government.
Fiona has served on several government and private sector boards. She was appointed by the Federal Minister for Regional Development, Local Government, Sports and the Arts to the Regional Development Australia Fund in 2011. She was the State Director of the Housing and Urban Research Institute of Western Australia 2005-2010 and advised the State government on restructuring the local government sector. She has undertaken numerous projects for the private and public sector and has been awarded Australian Research Council, Rural Industries and Research and Development Corporation and Commonwealth of Australia Knowledge research grants.
She led the CSIRO Minerals Down Under Regions in Transition Project until 2012. This research program investigated communities in four regions across two Australian states which have traditionally been dominated by agricultural, broadacre businesses but which have experienced land use and labour force change with increased mining activity. In 2010, she was appointed the Chief Investigator, leading the Regional Economies – Enduring Community Value from Mining division of the Remote Economic Participation Co-operative Research Centre and since 2015 she has been the co-director of the Centre for Regional Development at the University of Western Australia. Fiona has conducted research in regional and remote communities assessing the barriers and opportunities for long term benefits derived from the resource industries.
Fiona is currently investigating the socio-economic impact of different workforce arrangements for the mining industry, including long distance commuting, residential and automated mine sites. She is also supervising and actively engaged in research projects, across rural, regional and remote areas of Australia tracking and mapping mining company regional engagement strategies and assessing the impact of mining on small business, local communities and economies, and the potential for enduring community value from mining.
Fiona has a professorial appointment at the University of Western Australia with teaching and research responsibilities.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Labour Force Mobility in the Australian Resources Industry
Book Subtitle: Socio-Economic and Regional Impacts
Editors: Fiona M. Haslam McKenzie
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2018-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-2016-2Published: 04 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9505-4Published: 23 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-2018-6Published: 26 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 194
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Labor Economics, Economic Growth, Development Economics, Business Ethics, Social Policy