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Title

The problems and prospects of remote mining towns : national and regional issues

Author(s)

Newton, Peter W.

Abstract

Development prospects for northern Australia's resource regions and their constituent settlements can be best understood in terms of their contemporary position within the world economic system and in terms of the role adopted by the state in relation to resource development. The core-periphery concepts contained in the work of Galtung (1971), Wallerstein (1978) and Steiber (1979) have emerged as a useful organizing framework for assessing the relative economic position of different regions or countries (e.g. with respect to economic or social performance measures) and the nature of the interactions or exchanges which occur between and within particular nations. The model of exchange outlined in Figure 1 suggests that within the world market, nations are stratified according to their economic strength. For core societies, their economic diversity and wealth is reflected in the export of large quantities of both raw materials and finished products, with greater emphasis on the latter. Peripheral regions are in a persistent state of underdevelopment, based on an early inability to compete in the world market and subsequent reliance on specialisation in the form of primary industries. [Introduction]

Publication type

Conference paper

Source

Urban Australia : living in the next decade : papers presented at the symposium on Macro-Economic and Social Trends in Australia held by AIUS in October 1983, p. 95-104

Publication year

1984

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Economic strength;  Export dependence;  Human settlements;  Mining towns;  Northern Australia;  Primary industry;  Regional development;  Remote areas;  Remote communities;  Resource development;  Sustainable development

Publisher

Australian Institute of Urban Studies

ISBN

0864190328

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