Flexible Crossroads: The Restructuring of British Columbia's Forest Economy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780774807753)

British Columbia's forest economy is at a crucial crossroads. Its survival, Roger Hayter argues, rests on its ability to remain flexible and open to innovation - a future by no means assured given recent policy initiatives and the current contested nature of British Columbia's forests. Flexible Crossroads looks at the contemporary restructuring of British Columbia's forest economy, demonstrating how both resource dynamics - the transition from old growth to managed forests - and industrial dynamics - changing technology and global market forces - have shaped this transformation. Conceptually, the restructuring is portrayed as a shift from a commodity-based, cost-minimizing production system (Fordism) to a more product-differentiated, value-maximizing production system informed by the imperative of flexibility.

Author: Roger Hayter
ISBN-10: 077480775X
ISBN-13: 9780774807753
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2000
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2001 pg. 932