• The livestock transition, peri-urban agricultural land use and urbanization in China 

  MacLachlan, Ian (Arts and ScienceDepartment of GeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2016-06-13)

  Rapid urbanization in China is embedded in a modernization process with profound implications for every aspect of its social development. Rising real incomes in urban areas have triggered a sea change in Chinese meat ...
• Changing livestock geographies and global meat consumption: what are the implications 

  MacLachlan, Ian (University of LethbridgeArts and ScienceDepartment of GeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2014)

  Examines the local livestock industry and the effects of current global meat consumption trends on Canada’s economy
• Regional diversification policy in Alberta 

  MacLachlan, Ian (Alberta Association, Canadian Institute of PlannersArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1992)

  On August 4, 1992 Western Diversification Canada (WD) celebrated its 5th birthday. This anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to examine WD's mandate and programs and to assess the allocation of funding under its ...
• Economic development and industrial employment: A thousand points of light? 

  MacLachlan, Ian (Alberta Association, Canadian Institute of PlannersArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1991)

  This paper disputes some of the empirical analysis on small firm job creation and argues that small enterprises are responsible for a relatively modest share of employment and employment growth at the national, provincial, ...
• Subcontracting in Hokkaido's resource processing sectors 

  MacLachlan, Ian (Center for Development Policy Studies, Hokkai-Gakuen University (Sapporo, Japan)Arts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1992-02)

  The Japanese economic miracle has inspired considerable interest in the organization of the Japanese industrial system. One of the unique aspects of industrial capitalism in Japan is the vast array of contractual linkages ...
• Spatial patterns of income and income inequality in Mexico City 

  MacLachlan, Ian (Geografía y Desarrollo, MéxicoArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 1998)

  To explain trends in inequality in Mexico, three theoretical approaches to income inequality are outlined: Kuznets' inverted "U", Mexican crisis theory, and the informal-formal duality. Empirical data are used to construct ...
• Regional Impacts of BSE in Alberta 

  MacLachlan, Ian; Townshend, Ivan (Arts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2007-07-17)

  Structure of Talk: Global rural: Zoonosis!; Beef Production is Important in Rural Alberta; Alberta’s BSE Crisis in Context; Half full or half empty? (We dodged a bullet! Perfect Storm); Regional Impact of BSE Crisis.
• Modeling Regional Impacts of BSE in Alberta in Terms of Cattle Herd Structure 

  MacLachlan, Ian; Townshend, Ivan (Arts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2007-08-20)

  Structure of Talk: Regional Impact of BSE Crisis; Discuss data issues; Describe shift and share model (Notation, Sailboat racing metaphor, & Shift‐share identity); Examine preliminary results; Future research.
• Situational Factors and Urban Growth: The Case of Lethbridge and Alberta’s Metropolitan Centres 

  MacLachlan, Ian (International Geographical Union, Commission on Monitoring Cities of TomorrowArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2002-12)

  The concept of situation, or the relative location of a place, includes two subsidiary components: intermediacy and centrality. Urban boosterism, the promotion of growth in a local centre in competition with other places ...
• Lethbridge and the Trans-Canada Airway 

  MacLachlan, Ian; MacKay, Bruce (Historical Society of AlbertaArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2000)

  For the first nine years of transcontinental airline service, 1939-1948, Lethbridge was western Canada's principal airline hub. The city was ideally situated to fulfill this function due to its location on the southerly ...
• Kill and Chill: Restructuring Canada’s Beef Commodity Chain 

  MacLachlan, Ian (University of Toronto PressArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2001)

  Comprehensive in its treatment of the whole system surrounding the Canadian beef industry, Kill and Chill offers a history of the structural changes in Canada's cattle and beef commodity chain, beginning with calf production ...
• Betting the Farm: Food Safety, Risk Society, and the Canadian Cattle and Beef Commodity Chain 

  MacLachlan, Ian (House of Anansi PressArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)
• Cultivating a New Cattle Culture: Beef Production and Grassland Management in Alberta 

  MacLachlan, Ian; Bateman, Nancy G.; Johnston, Thomas R. R. (SpringerArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005)

  This chapter illustrates how views about pasture land management have developed in Canada.
• Coup de Grâce: Humane Slaughter in Nineteenth Century Britain 

  MacLachlan, Ian (BrepolsArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006)

  Calls for humane cattle slaughter in Britain emerged as part of a broader urban-based animal welfare and slaughterhouse reform movement in the nineteenth century. Humanitarian groups advocated the humane slaughter principle: ...
• Feedlot Growth in Southern Alberta: A Neo-Fordist Interpretation 

  MacLachlan, Ian (CABI PublishingArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005)

  Following a discussion of fundamentally neo-Fordist character of cattle feedlots, this chapter describes the factors accounting for the recent surge in feedlot production in southern Alberta.
• Stockyards Districts as Industrial Clusters in Two Western Canadian Cities 

  MacLachlan, Ian; Townshend, Ivan (Western Division, Canadian Association of GeographersArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)

  The stockyard was the nucleus of the livestock and meat processing agroindustry, one of the key propulsive forces in the rapid growth of western Canada at the turn of the century. In metropolitan centres such as Calgary ...
• Your Call Is Important to Us: Call Centres in Lethbridge, Alberta 

  Croil, Spencer; MacLachlan, Ian (Western Division, Canadian Association of GeographersArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2006)

  In-bound and out-bound call centres have developed due to the spread of information and communication technologies and growing demand for information and technical support on a round-the-clock basis. Intense cost competition ...
• A bloody offal nuisance: The persistence of private slaughter-houses in nineteenth century London 

  MacLachlan, Ian (Cambridge University PressArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2007)

  British slaughter-house reformers campaigned to abolish private urban slaughter-houses and establish public abattoirs in the nineteenth century. Abolition of London’s private slaughter-houses was motivated by the congestion ...
• ‘The greatest and most offensive nuisance that ever disgraced the capital of a kingdom’: The slaughterhouses and shambles of modern Edinburgh 

  MacLachlan, Ian (University of EdinburghArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2005)

  The slaughter of domesticated animals and their butchering for food has been an important component of urban economic activity since the Neolithic revolution. But since the dawn of the modern period, butchery has been cast ...
• Integrated Dis-Integration: Employment Structure of First Nations Communities on the Prairies Relative to their Local Regions 

  Townshend, Ivan; MacLachlan, Ian; O'Donoghue, Dan (Canadian Indian/Native Studies AssociationArts and ScienceGeographyUniversity of Lethbridge, 2004)

  An exploratory study of the employment specialization/diversity of Prairie First Nations Communities (FNCs) in relation to the employment structure of five comparative settlement system base profiles that are found within ...

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