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<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Accounting for Social Impacts and Costs in the Forest Industry, British Columbia</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Gale, Robert</span> and <span class="person_name">Gale, Fred</span> (2006) <xhtml:em>Accounting for Social Impacts and Costs in the Forest Industry, British Columbia.</xhtml:em> Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 26 (2). pp. 139-155. ISSN 0195-9255</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2209/1/EIAR-March-2006-Gale.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/2209/1/EIAR-March-2006-Gale.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />445Kb</td><td><form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/request_doc"><input accept-charset="utf-8" value="2754" name="docid" type="hidden" /><div class=""><input value="Request a copy" name="_action_null" class="ep_form_action_button" onclick="return EPJS_button_pushed( '_action_null' )" type="submit" /> </div></form></td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2005.02.002">http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eiar.2005.02.002</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Business reviews of the forest industry in British Colombia, Canada, typically portray an
unequivocally positive picture of its financial and economic health. In doing so, they fail to consider
the following six categories of social impacts and costs: (1) direct and indirect subsidies; (2)
gov ernment support through inv estment; (3) community dependence; (4) the maintenance of public
order; (5) aboriginal title; and (6) the overestimation of employment. Our findings show that
conventional economic and financial accounting methods inflate the industry's net contribution to
the economy . We make a number of recommendations to address this shortcoming to improve future
accounting and reporting procedures.</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">The definitive version is available at http://www.sciencedirect.com
</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Social impacts; Social costs; I ndustrial forestry ; S ustainability accounting; B ritish C olumbia</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/360200.html">360000 Policy and Political Science > 360200 Policy and Administration</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">2209</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Dr Fred P. Gale</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">16 Oct 2007 10:16</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=2209;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=2209">item control page</a></p>
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