From ‘New Town’ to ‘No Town’ to ‘Source’, ‘Host’ and ‘Hub’ Communities: The Evolution of the Resource Community in an Era of Increased Labour Mobility
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Abstract
Resources are not ubiquitous and as new sources are developed labour must be made available at the resource sites. Construction of purpose-built resource towns has, until recently, been the usual solution to this problem. While resource towns continue to exist, changes in economic, political, environmental, social and technological factors have influenced the preferences of governments, companies and the resource-related labour force itself regarding the type of settlement option adopted. New resource towns are no longer being built and commute operations and camp accommodations have become the preferred alternative. This has resulted in a much broader spectrum of resource community types, a significantly different geography of resource-dependent communities and a wider and more complex set of development issues that need to be addressed. This paper uses examples from Canada and Australia to outline the evolution of a number of new resource-related community types that have emerged in the past forty years associated with the mining sector and considers some of their key community and regional development implications. Keywords: commute work; resource-dependent communities; source, host and hub communities ------------------------------------------------------- De la ‘Nouvelle Ville’ a ‘Aucune Ville’ a la ‘Source’ , les Communautes ‘Hote’ et ‘Centre’ Communities: L'Evolution de la Communaute Resource dans une Ere d'Accroissement de la Mobilite de la Main d'Oeuvre Resume Les ressources ne sont pas omnipresentes et comme de nouvelles sources sont developpees, le travail doit etre mis a la disposition sur les sites ressources. Les constructions de villes ressources fabriquees sur mesure ont ete, depuis recemment, la solution ideale au probleme. Pendant que les villes ressources continuent d'exister, des changements sur les facteurs economiques, politiques, environnementaux, sociaux et technologiques ont influence les preferences des gouvernements, des compagnies et des ressources liees a la main d'œuvre elle-meme par rapport au type de choix d'accord adopte. De nouvelle villes ressources ne sont desormais plus construites et des operations de navette ainsi que des camps d'accommodation sont devenus des alternatives preferentielles. Il en a resulte un plus large eventail de types de ressources communautaires, une repartition geographique considerablement differente des communautes dependantes des ressources et une serie continue de problemes plus vastes et plus complexes qui doivent etre pris en charge. Cet article utilise l'exemple du Canada et de l'Australie pour presenter l'evolution d'un nombre de nouveaux types communautaires lies aux nouvelles ressources qui ont emerge dans les quarante dernieres annees associees avec le secteur minier et il considere plusieurs des communautes cles ainsi que les implications du developpement regional.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".