Writing off the rural West: globalization, governments and the transformation of rural communities ; [... papers presented to a Parkland Institute conference in November 1997...]
Post-Crow farming in Manitoba : an analysis of the wheat and hog sectors / Doug Ramsey and John C. Everitt -- Corporate hog farming : the view from the family farm / Darrin Qualman -- Bad to the bone : the social costs of beef packing's move to rural Alberta / Michael J. Broadway -- Global investment and local politics : the case of Lethbridge / William Ramp and Mustafa Koc -- De-prioritizing agriculture : lessons from New Brunswick / Susan Machum -- Globalization, neo-liberalism, and rural decline : Australia and Canada / Geoffrey Lawrence, Murray Knuttila, and Ian Gray -- Northland : the past, present, and future of Northern British Columbia in the age of globalization / Ken Coates -- Blind spots in the rearview mirrors : livelihood and the Cheviot debate / Ian Urquhart -- Nature as playground : recreation and gentrification in the mountain West / Dave Whitson -- The disappearance of the open West : individualism in the midst of agricultural restructuring / Lorelei L. Hanson -- The politics of development on the Sunshine Coast / Bruce Milne -- Uneasy neighbours : white-aboriginal relations and agricultural decline / Murray Mandryk -- Overcoming cultural and spiritual obstacles to rural revitalization / Cameron Harder -- Work, knowledge, and the direction of farm life / Bob Stirling -- A good place to grow old? : rural communities and support to seniors / Norah Keating, Janice Keefe, and Bonnie Dobbs -- The rancher and the regulators : public challenges to sour-gas industry regulation in Alberta, 1970-1994 / Arn Keeling -- The political de-skilling of rural communities / Roger Epp