R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Cointegration, Ecosystem Services, Environmental Health

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Rural Sociology
• Course: R SOC355
• Professor: John Parkins

Document Summary

Corresponding textbook chapter: 2 (social transformation in rural canada, 2013) Developed to support commodity production and transport to export markets. Raw log exports are a significant part of the economy in bc (increasing over the years) Early history was not just about commodity production: linking the local and international to the land-based household, political activism as small business owners (pg 26, occupational pluralism, off-farm work (co-integration, self-provisioning, summary pg. 35-36 varied and flexible rural economy, resilient! Economy could be precarious in this time period, so sandwell comments on the ability of households to persist through self-provisioning and occupational pluralism / flexibility. Are rural communities an important topic of study: a(cid:374) i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)t part of our (cid:272)ou(cid:374)try"s history. Energy supply: where (cid:373)ost of the (cid:449)orld"s i(cid:374)dige(cid:374)ous populatio(cid:374) is lo(cid:272)ated, rural communities are significant players in global environmental health. Should we be concerned about the sustainability of rural communities: historically rural population has been in decline.