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Growth Narratives and Governance Dependencies in Resource Towns Fort McMurray as Case Study
DownloadSpring 2023
Oil sand development is the main economic engine in Alberta’s Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo (RMWB). Large-scale boosterism and investments in oil sand projects have mainly driven the Municipality’s rapid growth during the path dependency of the last few decades. The rapid growth and...
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