R SOC355 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Natural Capital, Bacs, Canadian Dollar

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

Document Summary

In the post- world war era, british columbia"s forest-based communities prospered due to: Ensured a sense of wellbeing among hewers of wood. Not all residents, particularly first nations people, shared in the wealth of forests. During the 1970s, increasing public pressure for environmental protection and a dwindling timber supply reduced access to timber. By the early 200s, export markets has declined, and the foundations of the forest-based community were in question. Rural places are not strangers to deep and rapid environmental, social, economic, and political changes- even perhaps, transformations. The ability of groups or communities to cope with external stresses and disturbances as a result of social, political, and environmental change. Resilient (dictionary definition): able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions. Problem: outbreak of unusually high levels of mountain pine beetle that have damaged merchantable timber- challenged the socio-economic viability of the communities of the region, slumping market for timber. Goal: examine some current understnadings of social transformation.