Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- Part 1: Global and Historical Perspective -- 1 Global Industrial Transformation, Resource Peripheries, and the Canadian Model -- 2 Life on the Geographic Margin: The Evolution of British Columbia's Forest Economy from the 1880s to the 1970s -- 3 Booms, Busts, and Forest Reregulation in an Age of Flexibility -- Part 2: The Anatomy of Change -- 4 MacMillan Bloedel: Corporate Restructuring and the Search for Flexible Mass Production -- 5 Foreign Direct Investment: Help or Hindrance? -- 6 Small Firms: Towards Flexible Specialization in BC's Forest Economy -- 7 Trade Patterns and Conflicts: Continentalism Challenged by the Pacific -- 8 Employment and the Contested Shift to Flexibility -- 9 The Diversification of Forest-Based Communities: Local Development as an Unruly Process -- 10 Environmentalism and the Reregulation of British Columbia's Forests -- 11 The BC Forest-Product Innovation System and the (Frustrating) Search for a Knowledge-Based Culture -- 12 The BC Forest Economy as a Local Model -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.