GEOG 426 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3, 5: Fordism
27 Feb 2016
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In the context of resource dynamics, the end of the era of extensive growth in which forest product growth is based on old-growth timber, if not entirely over, is close at hand. Loss of bc"s natural advantage has occurred because rival regions have already established second-growth forest management were lower cost and becoming more important. Restructuring from a fordist to a more flexible production system in the last quarter of the 20th century. 1975 with ndp government reregulation labeled high-stumpage regime . 1975 commission led to important modifications in forest policy in the early 1980s and onset of american protectionism, based on the charge that bc"s forest undervalued and the environmentally led war in the woods indicated powerful criticisms remained. Estimates of the aac became more stable in the 1980s, corresponding closely to the actual harvest. Bc has evolved very much as a resource periphery.
