Roger Hayter is Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, where he has taught economic geography since 1976. In 1999, he received the Award for Scholarly Distinction from the Canadian Association of Geographers.

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 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

Roger Hayter is Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University, where he has taught economic geography since 1976. In 1999, he received the Award for Scholarly Distinction from the Canadian Association of Geographers.