Restructuring and risk-reduction in mining: employment implications for northern Sweden
Employment in northern Sweden has in the past been largely dependent on natural resources. Shifting demands and price fluctuations on raw materials has caused boom periods as well as times of crises in local communities. During the first decade of the 21st century, increasing global demand for miner...
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fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/2600 2023-05-15T17:44:19+02:00 Restructuring and risk-reduction in mining: employment implications for northern Sweden Knobblock, Erika Anna Pettersson, Örjan 2010-11-11 application/pdf https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/2600 eng eng Geographical Society of Finland https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/2600/3453 https://fennia.journal.fi/article/view/2600 Copyright (c) 2014 Fennia Fennia; Vol 188 Nro 1 (2010): 3rd Nordic Geographers Meeting Special Issue; 61-75 Fennia - International Journal of Geography; Vol 188 No 1 (2010): 3rd Nordic Geographers Meeting Special Issue; 61-75 1798-5617 Employment Mining Resource based communities Restructuring Sweden info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article Statistical analysis; Interviews 2010 fttsvojs 2020-09-30T22:45:55Z Employment in northern Sweden has in the past been largely dependent on natural resources. Shifting demands and price fluctuations on raw materials has caused boom periods as well as times of crises in local communities. During the first decade of the 21st century, increasing global demand for minerals resulted in substantial investments in the Swedish mining industry. The purpose of this article is to assess the importance of mining for employment in the county of Västerbotten, northern Sweden, by focusing on the time period after 1990. Mining employment constitute merely a small part of all employment in the study area, due to a restructuring process that started in the 1960s. However, results show that mining employment has increased slightly, especially after 2002. Global demand for minerals, related technology and services make it reasonable to believe that this change will have a deeper significance for employment opportunities in the study area Västerbotten. Structural change and restructuring in mining generate new business opportunities in subcontracting, consultancy, equipment production etc, but also new risks. Consequently, it is important to make strategic decisions on how to make use of the development in the local mining industry in order to stimulate long-term regional employment growth. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online |
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Employment in northern Sweden has in the past been largely dependent on natural resources. Shifting demands and price fluctuations on raw materials has caused boom periods as well as times of crises in local communities. During the first decade of the 21st century, increasing global demand for minerals resulted in substantial investments in the Swedish mining industry. The purpose of this article is to assess the importance of mining for employment in the county of Västerbotten, northern Sweden, by focusing on the time period after 1990. Mining employment constitute merely a small part of all employment in the study area, due to a restructuring process that started in the 1960s. However, results show that mining employment has increased slightly, especially after 2002. Global demand for minerals, related technology and services make it reasonable to believe that this change will have a deeper significance for employment opportunities in the study area Västerbotten. Structural change and restructuring in mining generate new business opportunities in subcontracting, consultancy, equipment production etc, but also new risks. Consequently, it is important to make strategic decisions on how to make use of the development in the local mining industry in order to stimulate long-term regional employment growth. |
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Knobblock, Erika Anna Pettersson, Örjan |
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Restructuring and risk-reduction in mining: employment implications for northern Sweden |
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Restructuring and risk-reduction in mining: employment implications for northern Sweden |
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Restructuring and risk-reduction in mining: employment implications for northern Sweden |
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Restructuring and risk-reduction in mining: employment implications for northern Sweden |
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Restructuring and risk-reduction in mining: employment implications for northern Sweden |
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restructuring and risk-reduction in mining: employment implications for northern sweden |
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Geographical Society of Finland |
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Fennia; Vol 188 Nro 1 (2010): 3rd Nordic Geographers Meeting Special Issue; 61-75 Fennia - International Journal of Geography; Vol 188 No 1 (2010): 3rd Nordic Geographers Meeting Special Issue; 61-75 1798-5617 |
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