Description
Book SynopsisColumbia's forest economy is at a crucial crossroads, and Flexible Crossroads looks at the contemporary restructuring of British Columbia's forest economy, demonstrating how both resource dynamics and industrial dynamics have shaped this transformation.
Trade ReviewHayter offers a comprehensive and well-written treatise on the economic geography and history of the "forest economy" of British Columbia. He expertly describes the difficult conflicts between logging, jobs, people, indigenous people, and old growth. -- D.F. Karnosky * Choice *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Part 1: Global and Historical Perspective
1 Global Industrial Transformation, Resource Peripheries, and the Canadian Model
2 Life on the Geographic Margin: The Evolution of British Columbia's Forest Economy from the 1880s to the 1970s
3 Booms, Busts, and Forest Reregulation in an Age of Flexibility
Part 2: The Anatomy of Change
4 MacMillan Bloedel: Corporate Restructuring and the Search for Flexible Mass Production
5 Foreign Direct Investment: Help or Hindrance?
6 Small Firms: Towards Flexible Specialization in B.C.'s Forest Economy
7 Trade Patterns and Conflicts: Continentalism Challenged by the Pacific
8 Employment and the Contested Shift to Flexibility
9 The Diversification of Forest-Based Communities: Local Development as an Unruly Process
10 Environmentalism and the Reregulation of British Columbia's Forests
11 The B.C. Forest-Product Innovation System and the (Frustrating) Search for a Knowledge-Based Culture
12 The B.C. Forest Economy as a Local Model
References
Index
