Single Industry Resource Towns

Abstract

Why have a chapter on single industry resource towns, the only one in this book that refers to a specific kind of place as opposed to a process or economic entity? The very classification of “single industry resource towns” conjures up a stereotypical image with well-known characteristics. First, they boom and they bust, and in this sense the problem with resource-based towns is that they are not resourceful enough. Second, they are located where resources are found, typically in places where other kinds of economic opportunities are limited. These two related features underpin the stereotype of single industry resource towns as remote, specialized outposts comprising populations with limited social and economic options, and vulnerable to the forces of economic destruction whether originating in globally based restructuring or local resource exhaustion, or both.

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