Resource Communities: Past Legacies and Future Pathways

- provides an innovative approach to the understanding and governance of resource communities, by showcasing how the past and present informs the future - makes use of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to understand the complex issues being faced by communities reliant on natural resources - draws on global case studies, across a range of natural resources, from coal and gold mining, to fishing towns and logging communities - provides practical recommendations for ways to break open these dependencies on the past in resource communities - will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource governance and management, extractive industries, environmental policy, community planning and development, environmental geography and sustainable development, as well as policymakers involved in supporting community development in natural resource-dependent communities across the world