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resource enterprises (e.g. Suutarinen 2013: 334–335). The residents’ expectations that the state
and regional government would offer subsidies to these new alternative industries in the same
way that they have subsidized the main mining industry in the past, might continue related to
alternative industries, such as tourism, which is seldom self-sustainable in peripheral
communities (Carson & Carson 2011: 375). Path-dependency impacts on the alternative
industries of resou