1. C O N V E N E S
P R E S E N T S
C O O R D I N A T E S
O R G A N I Z E S
C O L L A B O R A T E S
M E D I A P A R T N E R

2. Anthony Bebbington University of Melbourne
“First Meeting of the Network of Mining Regions”
Mining as Territorial Development
Anthony Bebbington
University of Melbourne
Outline
Rural Territorial Development
Factors in success
Challenges of RTD in mining regions
Opportunities: learning from successes

3. Rural Territorial Development (RTD)
Productive transformation +
Institutional transformation, in
A region with an identity (a territory)
Leading to
Economic growth, with
Social inclusion, and
Environmental sustainability
(Schejtman & Berdegue, 2004; RIMISP, 2007)

4. Key factors in success
Relative equity/inequality in access to natural resources
Links to dynamic markets
Proximity to urban centres
Broad access public investment
Coalition of diverse actors committed to territorial transformation
(Berdegué, Escobal, Bebbington, 2015; Rimisp)

5. Challenges of RTD in Mining Regions
Increasing inequality and then reducing inequality
Requires efficient instruments for redistribution
Commodity price effects
Remoteness, market access and public investment
The logics of compensation and CSR
Can foster self-interested rather than territorially-interested behaviours
Gender inequalities and inequities
Difficulties in coalition building

6. RTD in Mining Regions Conflict But conflict is also
Disagreement over prioritization, assessment and sequencing of objectives
Generates costs
Can undermine the social capital (ties, trust, alliances) necessary to build broad-based territorial coalitions
But conflict is also
Always present in development
A chance to learn
A driver of change towards inclusion and sustainability
(Distinguish between traditional mining regions and non- traditional mining regions)

7. Opportunities: learning from RTD
Build coalitions that have tension within them
Not only the “like-minded”
Work with conflict, don’t try and manage and quell it: you may get the mine, you may not get development
Transparency and trust, transparency and accountability
Co-production, “co-ownership”
Respect for diverse ways of knowing

8. Opportunities: learning from RTD
Protect and broaden access to diverse dynamic markets, support diverse capacities
Broad access infrastructure: to build capacities, access and trust
Independent institutions for rights and rule of law
Gender, gender, gender

9. Summary Productive transformation Institutional transformations
The mining sector
Viable economies for those outside mining
Production/market based economies, not compensation based economies
Institutional transformations
Coalitions not bilateral relations
Institutions for transparency and accountability
Rule of law for all
Participatory institutions for territorial planning

10. C O N V E N E S
P R E S E N T S
C O O R D I N A T E S
O R G A N I Z E S
C O L L A B O R A T E S
M E D I A P A R T N E R