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Flexible Crossroads : the Restructuring of British Columbia's Forest Economy.
Columbia'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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| Language: | English |
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UBC Press
2007.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; 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 BC's Forest Economy.
- 7 Trade Patterns and Conflicts: Continentalism Challenged by the Pacific8 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 BC Forest-Product Innovation System and the (Frustrating) Search for a Knowledge-Based Culture; 12 The BC Forest Economy as a Local Model; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.