R SOC355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mountain Pine Beetle, Economic Collapse, University Of British Columbia Press

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

Document Summary

Is immigration a good strategy to fil the void from economic decline and population loss in rural areas: more culturally diverse immigrants in rural communities (ex. New structures of mobility and migration, chapter 5. Impetus for transformation: collapse of natural resource stocks. Physical collapse (ex. cod stock in nfld) Economic collapse (no longer fiscally responsible to extract resource; ex. Newfoundlanders tend to move back (strong familial, cultural ties) Dirty thirties, dustbowl agriculture in sk: economic collapse (great depression, physical/agricultural collapse due to drought, grasshoppers. Mountain pine beetle in bc (2000s: physical collapse, even-age mature stands (ideal for harvest efficiency) were highly vulnerable to the beetle. Hyper-focus on just one economic activity at a time, rather than diversifying the economy, makes us more vulnerable: ab"s fo(cid:272)us o(cid:374) the e(cid:374)erg(cid:455) se(cid:272)tor, many rural communities are overly dependent on one sector on the economy. Classification (according to statistics canada: place of residence 1 year ago, place of residence 5 years ago.