Multi-Scale Meta-Governance Strategies for Addressing Social Inequality in Resource Dependent Regions

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ID4445796
AuthorsCeit E Wilson (Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining Sustainable Minerals Institute University of Queensland Level 4, Sir James Foots Building, St Lucia Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia), Ceit Wilson (The University of Queensland, corresponding author), Tiffany H Morrison (0000-0001-5433-037X, ARC Centre for Excellence James Cook University Townsville Australia), Jo‐anne Everingham (0000-0001-7631-9462, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining Sustainable Minerals Institute University of Queensland Brisbane Australia)
Year2018
Volume58
Issue3
Pages500-521
Publication date2018-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soru.12189
OpenAlexW2748411458
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited43

Social inequality in resource-dependent regions is a growing problem. Increasingly both state and private actors are acting as meta-governors to address the issue. In this article, we focus on housing inequality as 'the canary in the coalmine' for broader social inequality. While affordable housing has been the subject of growing attention in urban scholarship, relatively few studies have considered the governance of affordable housing in rural regions. We report on a case analysis of affordable housing governance in the Gladstone-Surat Region, a traditional agricultural area of Australia that has experienced a dramatic increase in housing inequality due to significant coal seam gas development in recent years. We show that networked arrangements for affordable housing delivery were the product of strategic policy structuring, resourcing, and hands-off framing by the state government. Private meta-governance was exercised only in relation to process management forms of meta-governance, with private companies facilitating local 'arenas' for stakeholder discussion and connecting stakeholders in a synergistic manner. The dynamics of the case-study examined demonstrate that meta-governance in rural regions is not just about coordinating and mobilising horizontal (e.g., regional) cooperation, but about coalescing action within multiscale 'exogenous' networks and structures. These findings have important implications for future efforts to address social inequality in rural areas

Affordable housing · Business · Corporate governance · Economic growth · Economics · Framing (construction) · Geography · Inequality · Resource (disambiguation) · Scholarship · Social inequality · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance

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