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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Industrial Transformation in a Changing Global Economy -- Perspective -- 2. The Changing Pacific Economy: Challenge to the Post-Industrial Economy -- Defining the Pacific Region: a Curious Task -- Historical Patterns of Incorporation of the Pacific Region into the World System -- The Effects of the Incorporation Process of the Pacific System -- The Effects of the Pacific Rim System on the Populations of the Region -- Conclusion: Can the White Settler Countries Catch the Third Wave? -- 3. The Australian Economy in Transition -- Development of Australia's Political Economy -- Economic and Political Dilemmas -- Spatial Patterns -- Attitudes and Impacts -- 4. Canada's Internal Core-Periphery Structure -- Recent Regional Trends in Canada -- Business Concentration -- Conclusion -- 5. Telecommunications and International Electronic Information Services: Australian Perspectives -- Internationalization of Electronic Information Services -- Australia's International Business Telecommunications Linkages -- Australia's International Trade in EISS -- Deregulation of International Telecommunications and Trade in EISs -- Conclusion -- Dimensions of Employment and Social Change -- 6. International Influences on Regional Unemployment Patterns in Canada during the 1981-84 Recession -- The 1981 Recession -- The Role of Industrial Structure -- Trade and Unemployment -- Conclusion -- 7. Labour Markets, Housing Markets and the Changing Family in Canada's Service Economy -- The Rise of Service-based Employment -- Economic Development and the Built Environment -- Changing Patterns of Work, Home and Family Life: Inner City Gentrification -- Conclusion -- 8. The Implications of International Change for Regional Work Force Structures and Characteristics in Australia -- Australia as an Open, Dependent Society.

"In Petrochemical Planet Alice Mah examines the changing nature of the petrochemical industry as it faces the existential threats of climate change and environmental activism. Drawing on research from high-level industry meetings, petrochemical plant tours, and polluted communities, Mah juxtaposes the petrochemical industry's destructive corporate worldviews with environmental justice struggles in the United States, China, and Europe. She argues that amid intensifying public pressures, a profound planetary industrial transformation is under way that is challenging the reigning age of plastics and fossil fuels. This challenge comes from what Mah calls multiscalar activism-a form of collective resistance that spans local, regional, national, and planetary sites and scales and addresses the interconnected issues of environmental justice, climate, pollution, health, extraction, land rights, workers' rights, systemic racism, and toxic colonialism. Reflecting on the obstacles and openings for critical interventions in the petrochemical industry, Mah challenges offers important insights into the possibilities for resistance and developing alternatives to the reliance on fossil fuels"--

European colonization precipitated the first industrial transformation of Australian landscapes. We review the evolution of the environmental and societal setting of Australian landscapes since this first industrial transformation, the emergence of drivers precipitating a second industrial transformation, and what it will take to adapt. In concert with climate change and growing societal expectations of environmental stewardship, we identify six emerging economies for ecosystem services - carbon, water, food, energy, amenity and mining - which will exert transformational pressure on land use and management. The requirements for transformational adaptation - to thrive within environmental limits - include: fostering new partnerships between government, science, the private sector, and local communities to support local adaptation; identifying critical environmental limits and rationalizing environmental laws; establishing innovative social processes and adaptive governance; and developing innovative, well-supported market-based and community-based incentives.