The tyranny of distance and a post-industrial future?

Authors: Chris Perley
Publication: New Zealand Journal of Forestry, Volume N.Z.J.For. 2009, Issue N.Z.J.For. 54(2) 2009, pp 44-45, Aug 2009
Publisher: New Zealand Institute of Forestry

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Abstract: Logging trucks: they are the connectors in the industrial complex, these log-laden 18-wheel carriers of commodity from hill skid to mill door. Most who follow behind them don’t give a thought to where they have been or where they are going. Like sheep trucks, people are more concerned with the stuff that comes off them - chucks of bark or that fine mist of faeces mixed with urine. But there is a story in where these trucks travel, and many, many questions about the shape of the future.

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