The place embeddedness of social care: Restructuring work and welfare in Mackenzie, BC

Community-company relationships in forest-dependent communities in northern BC: Assessing the local, sectoral, and theoretical implications.

“…However, each downturn eroded local employment as communities experienced 'jobless recoveries' (Hanlon et al, 2007). The region began to experience population declines for the first time since World War II (Markey et al, 2008); resource communities were the hardest hit (Travers, 1993).…”

“…This approach to economic development does not fit with community economic development as it erodes local services and increases taxation for other industrial and residential payers (Bluestone & Harrison, 1982;Hanlon et al, 2007;Joshi et al, 2000;Slack et al, 2003). However, communities were constrained in their options making it hard to resist granting concessions because others were seen as willing to undercut them in what has been characterized as a 'race to the bottom' (Brenner & Theodore, 2002;Warf, 2008).…”

“…Government has been less willing, or able, to play a direct role in local development which has been characterized as an offloading of responsibilities (Hanlon et al, 2007;Markey et al, 2008). At the same time government required less of companies in terms of their obligations to communities , which can be seen as part of the BC Liberal party's strategy to create prime conditions for business and investment (Munro, 2004).…”

“…Government will need to address cuts to services that have accumulated since the 1980s recession and implement a new system of allocating funding to rural and remote settlements (Hanlon & Halseth, 2005;Reed, 2003b). Greater attention to the peculiarities of place is required to provide effective services in the northern Interior (Hanlon et al, 2007). Establishing funding levels based on population may suffice in southern locales where rural settlements are close to service centres (Hessing & Howlett, 1997).…”

The social and cultural experiences of food security in the Takla Lake First Nation: Informing public health.

“…Physical access may include daily access to food stores but also access to emergency food (MacNair, 2004). Many people living in rural and remote communities do not have the benefits o f emergency food organizations and are too small and remote to support large pools o f volunteers and informal caregivers (Hanlon et al, 2007). Little consideration is given for reserves or northern communities who lack these resources.…”