Book Description

Presents a literature review of Canadian communities that are dependent on the local forest industry. After an introductory history of Canadian forestry and a discussion of how forest dependency is defined, contemporary issues in forest dependency are reviewed: government policy, industrial restructuring, Aboriginal forestry, community forestry, and environmental management. An interpretive overview of forest dependent communities in Canada follows, tracing the essential phases of change in those communities in the initial era of industrial development, the period of holistic community planning, the comprehensive planning era in which social and economic principles were incorporated into the fabric of physical planning, and the current period of decline in forestry-dependent towns. The associated bibliography is annotated.