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DOI	10.1016/j.erss.2022.102670
	Mechanisation, wages, and royalties: Unpacking coal lock-in through 120 years of parliamentary debates in the world's largest exporter
	Arranz, Alfonso Martinez; Scelsi, Thomas; Kentish, Sandra; Frermann, Lea
发表日期	2024
ISSN	2214-6296
EISSN	2214-6326
起始页码	108
卷号	108
英文摘要	Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal by value, and only recently lost out on volume to neighbouring Indonesia. This paper examines 120 years of parliamentary debates to better understand how Australia attained this position and the lessons this has for a carbon constrained future. The paper adopts a socio-technical transitions perspective, drawing on parliamentary records, historical literature and socio-economic statistics. This comprehensive large-scale analysis uses established dynamic topic modelling methods, and contributes novel tools and methods to aid the quality, interpretation and reproduction of the presented results. Results show that after supply and workers' rights problems, a mid-century compromise was reached between the main political parties (and industrial actors). This compromise relied on increasing the efficiency and hence profitability of mines. Profits would be shared with workers to remove industrial disputes. This initiative set off a pathdependent trajectory of growth that forestalled competition from lower-wage producers like Indonesia and hampered reactions as climate change came to the fore. Attention to coal in the Australian federal parliament is now at even higher levels than in the 1950s. However, while a similar compromise appears necessary, it does not seem forthcoming.
英文关键词	Coal; Exports; Politics; Natural language processing; Technological
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:001197554400001
来源期刊	ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/296002
作者单位	University of Melbourne; University of Melbourne
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Arranz, Alfonso Martinez,Scelsi, Thomas,Kentish, Sandra,et al. Mechanisation, wages, and royalties: Unpacking coal lock-in through 120 years of parliamentary debates in the world's largest exporter[J],2024,108.
APA	Arranz, Alfonso Martinez,Scelsi, Thomas,Kentish, Sandra,&Frermann, Lea.(2024).Mechanisation, wages, and royalties: Unpacking coal lock-in through 120 years of parliamentary debates in the world's largest exporter.ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE,108.
MLA	Arranz, Alfonso Martinez,et al."Mechanisation, wages, and royalties: Unpacking coal lock-in through 120 years of parliamentary debates in the world's largest exporter".ENERGY RESEARCH & SOCIAL SCIENCE 108(2024).