Publications

Forthcoming
Ray DM, MacLachlan IR, Lamarche RH, Srinath KP. Economic shock and regional resilience: Continuity and change in Canada’s regional employment structure, 1987-2012. Environment and Planning A. Forthcoming.
2015
MacLachlan I. Evolution of a Revolution: Meat Consumption and Livestock Production in the Developing World. In: Political Ecologies of Meat. New York: Routledge, Earthscan; 2015.
MacLachlan I, Horsley J. New Town in the Bush: Planning Knowledge Transfer and the Design of Kwinana, Western Australia. Journal of Planning History. 2015;14(2):112-134.
2013
Kwinana Industrial Area: Agglomeration economies and industrial symbiosis on Western Australia’s Cockburn Sound. Australian Geographer. 2013;44(4):383–400.
Ray MD, Lamarche RH, MacLachlan IR. Restoring the “Regional” to Regional Policy: A Regional Typology of Western Canada. Canadian Public Policy . 2013;39(3):411-429.
2012
MacLachlan I. Global Consumption Patterns. In: 21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook . Sage Publications; 2012.
MacLachlan I. Peer review: The foundation of publication decisions. Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe canadien. 2012;56:1-2.
2010
MacLachlan I, Townshend I. Regional Impacts of BSE in Alberta: Exploring Regional and Structural Dynamics of Alberta’s Cattle Herd Using a Shift-Share Model. In: Geographical Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Change. Brandon, MB: Rural Development Press; 2010.
Townshend I, Hungerford L, MacLachlan I, Johnston T. Urban Versus Rural Community: Towards Community Experiential Convergence and Undifferentiated Rural Space. In: Geographical Perspectives on Sustainable Rural Change. ; 2010.
2009
MacLachlan I. Betting the Farm: Food Safety and the Beef Commodity Chain. In: Food and Fuel: Solutions for the Future . Toronto: House of Anansi Press (Reprinted from Feeding the Future, see MacLachlan 2004); 2009. Website
2008
MacLachlan I. Humanitarian Reform, Slaughter Technology, and Butcher Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Britain. In: Meat, Modernity and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse. University Press of New England (Revised from “Coup de Grâce,” see MacLachlan 2006); 2008.
2006
MacLachlan I. The Historical Development of Cattle Production in Canada. [Internet]. 2006. Website
Croil S, MacLachlan I. Your Call is Important to Us: Call Centres in Lethbridge, Alberta. Western Geography [Internet]. 2006;15/16:1-27. Website
2005
MacLachlan I. Coup de Grâce: Humane Cattle Slaughter in Nineteenth Century Britain. Food and History. 2005;3:145-171.
MacLachlan I, Bateman N, Johnston TRR. Cultivating a New Cattle Culture: Lifelong Learning and Pasture Land. In: Presenting and Representing Natural Environments. Springer; 2005.
MacLachlan I. Feedlot Growth in Southern Alberta: A Neo-Fordist Interpretation. In: Rural Change and Sustainability: Agriculture, the Environment and Communities. CABI Publishing; 2005.
MacLachlan I. ‘The greatest and most offensive nuisance that ever disgraced the capital of a kingdom’: The slaughterhouses and shambles of modern Edinburgh. Review of Scottish Culture. 2005;17:57-71.
2004
MacLachlan I. Industrial Development of Lethbridge: A Geographical Interpretation. [Internet]. 2004. Website
MacLachlan I. Betting the Farm: Food Safety, Risk Society, and the Canadian Cattle and Beef Commodity Chain. In: Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine How to Solve the World’s Food Crises. Toronto: House of Anansi Press; 2004.
Townshend I, MacLachlan I, O'Donoghue D. Integrated Dis-Integration: Employment Structure of First Nations Communities on the Prairies Relative to their Local Regions. Canadian Journal of Native Studies. 2004;24:91-127.
2003
MacLachlan I, Townshend I. Stockyards Districts as Industrial Clusters in Two Western Canadian Cities. Western Geography. 2003;13/14:44-68.
2002
MacLachlan I. Situational Factors and Urban Growth: The Case of Lethbridge and Alberta’s Metropolitan Centres. In: Monitoring Cities: International Perspectives Calgary: International Geographical Union, Commission on Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow. Calgary: International Geographical Union, Commission on Monitoring Cities of Tomorrow; 2002.
2001
MacLachlan I. Kill and chill: restructuring Canada's beef commodity chain. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; 2001.
2000
MacLachlan I, MacKay B. Lethbridge and the Trans-Canada Airway. Alberta History. 2000;48:2-13.
1998
MacLachlan I, Aguilar AG. Maquiladora myths: Locational and structural change in Mexico's export manufacturing industry. The Professional Geographer. 1998;50:315-331.
MacLachlan I. Spatial patterns of income and income inequality in Mexico City. Geografía y Desarrollo . 1998;16:16.
1997
MacLachlan I, Sawada R. Measures of income inequality and social polarization in Canadian metropolitan areas. The Canadian Geographer/Le Géographe Canadien. 1997;41:377-397.
1996
MacLachlan I. Organizational restructuring of US-based manufacturing subsidiaries and plant closure. In: Canada and the Global Economy: The Geography of Structural and Technological Change. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press; 1996.
1993
MacLachlan I. Regional diversification policy in Alberta. Alberta and Northwest Territories Journal of Planning Practice. 1993;11:35-55.
1992
MacLachlan I. Plant closure and market dynamics: competitive strategy and rationalization. Economic Geography. 1992:128-145.
MacLachlan I. Subcontracting in Hokkaido's Resource Processing Sectors. Kaihatsu Ronshu: The Journal of Development Policy Studies. 1992;49:181-196.
1991
MacLachlan I. Economic development and industrial employment: A thousand points of light?. Alberta and Northwest Territories Journal of Planning Practice. 1991;10:31-44.