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Importance Of Place: Addressing Community-Company Relationships Within The Global Economy., Alex G. Martin
Importance Of Place: Addressing Community-Company Relationships Within The Global Economy., Alex G. Martin
Western Division, Canadian Association of Geographers
The process of economic restructuring within the forestry sector has had dramatic impacts on BC's forest-dependent communities. As a result, the involvement of communities in resource extraction and processing activities has changed. As the forestry sector changed, the nature of the relationship between the resource company and the community changed. While literature on forestry sector restructuring and the resulting community impacts has grown since the 1980s, there has been little focus on community-company relationships and on resource peripheries in geographic theory. To gain a better understanding of these relationships, geographers must account for the uniqueness of resource peripheries while accounting …