Competing Perceptions of the Rural Idyll: responses to threats from coal seam gas development in Gloucester, NSW, Australia

摘要: ABSTRACTThreats to rural livelihoods and landscapes have increased over time as developed nations in particular look for cheaper more locally based alternatives traditional energy sources drive national economies. In New South Wales, through the expansion of coal mines seam gas (CSG), small towns such Gloucester on edge Upper Hunter are faced with competing visions which seek redefine their future. Powerful discourses land use threaten not only sustainability region but integrity its sense place, centred community, rurality, agricultural production confrontation risk from mining. The different local groups ‘tree-changers’, established residents farmers conflict those external organisations State government mining/CSG companies envisage a ‘balanced’ space co-existence position it new node carbon supply chain.