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  • Current Research Interests

    • Global scale livestock transition with specific reference to China
    • Regional models of industrial growth and structural change (shift-share and multi-factor partitioning)
    • Peri-urban land use and rural to urban land conversion in Guangdong
    • Housing challenges in the urban villages of Shenzhen

    Other Research Interests (noncurrent)

    • Slaughterhouse reform and historical geography of public abattoirs in the United Kingdom
    • Restructuring of Canada’s meat-packing industry
    • Maquiladoras and Income Distribution in Mexico City
    • Spatial Distribution of Income in Canada’s Metropolitan Areas
    • Industrial Plant Closure in Ontario
    • Industrial Ecology of Western Australia
    • Planning history of industrial satellite cities

Professor Ian MacLachlan
Department of Geography

University of Lethbridge
Lethbridge, Alberta T1J 2N2
Office: UH-B872
Phone: +001 (403) 329-2076
Fax: +001 (403) 329-2016
E-mail: maclachlan@uleth.ca

Recent Publications

  • Economic shock and regional resilience: Continuity and change in Canada’s regional employment structure, 1987-2012
  • Evolution of a Revolution: Meat Consumption and Livestock Production in the Developing World
  • New Town in the Bush: Planning Knowledge Transfer and the Design of Kwinana, Western Australia
  • Kwinana Industrial Area: Agglomeration economies and industrial symbiosis on Western Australia’s Cockburn Sound
  • Restoring the “Regional” to Regional Policy: A Regional Typology of Western Canada
  • Peer review: The foundation of publication decisions
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