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Municipal entrepreneurialism: Can it help to mobilize resource‐dependent small communities away from path dependency?

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  • Laura Ryser
  • Joshua Barrett
  • Sean Markey
  • Greg Halseth
  • Kelly Vodden

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Small resource‐based communities across Canada are experiencing rapid change within a volatile, fluctuating global economy. As communities seek to diversify their economies, they are enduring complex provincial and federal neoliberal policy environments that offer fewer funding resources while offloading more responsibilities onto local governments. Drawing upon the case studies of Burns Lake, British Columbia and Grand Falls‐Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada, we explore how small municipalities are using municipal enterprises to generate revenue and assets that may lead to new economic pathways. Our findings suggest that municipal entrepreneurial strategies are producing mixed success to break from past forest‐sector dependencies. These small municipalities still struggle with developmental and operational risks, as well as debates about whether to use revenues to meet new municipal responsibilities and increased demands on aging infrastructure and services versus transformative change. Las pequeñas comunidades basadas en recursos naturales de todo Canadá están experimentando rápidos cambios en una economía mundial volátil y fluctuante. A medida que las comunidades intentan diversificar sus economías, se enfrentan a complejos entornos políticos neoliberales provinciales y federales que ofrecen menos recursos de financiación al tiempo que descargan más responsabilidades en los gobiernos locales. A partir de los estudios de caso de Burns Lake (Columbia Británica) y Grand Falls‐Windsor (Terranova y Labrador) en Canadá, se estudió cómo los pequeños municipios utilizan las empresas municipales para generar ingresos y activos que pueden conducir a nuevas vías económicas. Nuestras conclusiones sugieren que las estrategias empresariales municipales están teniendo un éxito desigual a la hora de romper con las dependencias pasadas del sector forestal. Estos pequeños municipios siguen enfrentándose a riesgos operativos y de desarrollo, así como a debates sobre si utilizar los ingresos para hacer frente a las nuevas responsabilidades municipales y al aumento de la demanda sobre infraestructuras envejecidas y servicios anticuados frente al cambio transformador. カナダ全国にある少ないリソースに基づくコミュニティは、不安定で変動するグローバル経済の中で急速な変化を遂げている。コミュニティが経済の多様化を目指す中、少ない財源しか提供せず、しかもより多くの責任を地方政府に転嫁するという州と連邦の複合の新自由主義政策の環境に耐えている。カナダのブリティッシュコロンビア州のバーンズレイクとニューファンドランド・ラブラドール州のグランド・フォールズ=ウィンザーのケーススタディを基に、小規模自治体が自治体企業をどのように利用して、新しい経済経路につながる可能性のある歳入と資産を捻出しているかを検討した。結果から、自治体の起業戦略が、かつての森林部門依存から脱却するために、複合的な成功を生み出していることが示唆される。こうした小さな自治体は、開発や運営のリスクだけでなく、自治体の新しい責任を果たすため、あるいは老朽化したインフラやサービスに対して増加した需要に応えるために歳入を使うべきかどうかと抜本的な変化との議論とも奮闘している。

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  • Laura Ryser & Joshua Barrett & Sean Markey & Greg Halseth & Kelly Vodden, 2023. "Municipal entrepreneurialism: Can it help to mobilize resource‐dependent small communities away from path dependency?," Regional Science Policy & Practice, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 15(7), pages 1477-1492, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:rgscpp:v:15:y:2023:i:7:p:1477-1492
    DOI: 10.1111/rsp3.12649
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