Community-company relationships in forest-dependent communities in northern BC: Assessing the local, sectoral, and theoretical implications.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This dissertation examines changing community-company relationships within northern British Columbia's (BC) forestry sector over time. The process of economic restructuring in the forestry sector has had dramatic impacts on forestry-dependent communities in BC. Economic restructuring has occurred alongside a shift in the provincial policy environment and the global adoption of a neoliberal ideological framework. There has been a discernible shift in BC away from state-centred Fordist-Keynesianism towards Post-Fordist neoliberalism. Neoliberalization of forestry has been aimed at freeing up' restrictions on markets, forest tenure, and processing activities. These processes have effectively allowed forestry companies to determine where and when production occurs. This has been mirrored by a shift within companies towards lean, flexible production. These shifts have weakened the formal and informal relationships between companies and communities and forced communities to adopt the neoliberal ethos of doing more with less'. A qualitative case study of Mackenzie, Houston, and Quesnel was conducted to examine 1) the types of relationships forestry companies adopted when engaging forestry-dependent communities, 2) drivers of change, and 3) the role of place in shaping global and local forces. Key informant interviews and focus groups and analysis of historical data allowed for a rich understanding of contexts, processes, and outcomes at the community level. Analysis showed that companies have withdrawn from community involvement as they shifted from managerialism' to entrepreneurialism'. Analysis indicated that significant changes included retrenchment of company involvement, changed relationships with municipal government, weakening of local business sectors, and fewer resources. The results showed that changes in relationships were driven by globalization of forestry, consolidation of the Interior sector, corporate restructuring, and changing forest policy. T
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".