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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. The Ethics of Resource Extraction and Processing: Two Western Australian Case Studies

Authors : Glenn Albrecht, Neville Ellis

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Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

The history of Western Australia is often written as land and resource development with the normative dimension of this history implicitly seen as one of the positive dimensions of civilisation and progress. Yet throughout this history ethical issues abound and, when made explicit, provide opportunities to question and critique the path taken by all humans on this most fragile of continents. Western Australia’s rise to the role of key producer of raw commodities to meet global resource demand invites an ethical analysis of resource extraction in the state. Based on analysis presented we call a for a refocusing of the way humans in Western Australia relate to not only their land or ‘country’ but also the whole planet and argue the need for holistic sustainability and place-based ethics that will be required to undertake such a task.

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Footnotes
1
We use the terms ‘Indigenous’ and ‘Aboriginal’ interchangeably to describe Australian Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders.
 
2
It is to be remembered that Dirk Hartog ‘discovered’ the coast of WA in 1616 and, further, that it is likely Macassan sailors had visited the west and north coasts of Australia long before Cook sighted the east coast in 1770.
 
3
From the 1860s onwards organisations in each state systematically introduced and acclimatised new plants and animals into Australia. As stated by Museum Victoria, “Many Europeans at first felt uneasy in their new land. They spoke of ‘the savage silence, or worse’ of the bush. They introduced plants and animals to make the alien environment feel more like home, to beautify their gardens, provide sport for hunters and ‘aggrandise’ the colony. But above all, they wanted to make the land economically productive.” (Museum Victoria n.d.).
 
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Metadata
Title
The Ethics of Resource Extraction and Processing: Two Western Australian Case Studies
Authors
Glenn Albrecht
Neville Ellis
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
Resource Curse or Cure ?

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-53872-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-53873-5

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-53873-5_3