MacLachlan, Ian

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    Integrated Dis-Integration: Employment Structure of First Nations Communities on the Prairies Relative to their Local Regions
    (Canadian Indian/Native Studies Association, 2004) Townshend, Ivan; MacLachlan, Ian; O'Donoghue, Dan
    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 their local regions. The FNCs are classified according to levels of settlement system integration. Findings reveal considerable differences in the employment structures at all levels of settlement system integration; a problem that is summarized as the paradox of integrated disintegration.
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    Modeling Regional Impacts of BSE in Alberta in Terms of Cattle Herd Structure
    (2007-08-20) MacLachlan, Ian; Townshend, Ivan
    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.
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    Prairie People’s Packers Pending: The New Generation Cooperative Model of Cattle Slaughter
    (2006-06) MacLachlan, Ian; Townshend, Ivan; Aitken, Sheena
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    Regional Impacts of BSE in Alberta
    (2007-07-17) MacLachlan, Ian; Townshend, Ivan
    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.
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    Stockyards Districts as Industrial Clusters in Two Western Canadian Cities
    (Western Division, Canadian Association of Geographers, 2004) MacLachlan, Ian; Townshend, Ivan
    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 and in smaller cities such as Lethbridge, stockyards functioned as transhipment points for livestock in transit and as markets for meat-packing plants. The activities typically drawn together by stockyards created a distinctly western Canadian industrial complex which benefited from agglomeration economies and industrial inertia. Nevertheless, public stockyards are now a relict urban land use and have all but disappeared from the urban landscape. The factors contributing to the waning role of stockyards are identified, with implications for the application of the theory of agglomeration economies and industrial clusters to resource-based industries.