Community Asset Mapping: forest-based communities in the Upper St. John River Valley of New Brunswick, Canada

摘要

With competing forest fibre coming in from warmer climates, combined with the downturn in the construction industry in the US and over cutting by the industrial forestry model, with a subsequent depletion of the forest resource itself, the Upper St. John River Valley of New Brunswick is experiencing the closure of mills, out migration from single industry towns and some people are feeling that the future is looking economically rather bleak.