Roger Hayter

Short Biography

Roger Hayter is a Professor of Geography. He is an economic geographer with particular interests in industrial location dynamics, resource peripheries and the forest sector. He has written widely on the evolutionary location dynamics of British Columbia's forest economy, exploring several themes related to corporate strategies, foreign investment, labour markets, trade policy, innovation, community development and the environment. These interests are expressed in Flexible Crossroads: The Restructuring of British Columbia's Forest Economy (UBC Press, 2001). He has also written on aspects of Japanese forestry, especially with respect to timber markets, trade and high value, localized production. His interests in industrial geography are illustrated in a text book, originally published in 1997 (freely available at http://www.sfu.ca/geography/people/faculty/Faculty_sites/RogerHayter/dynamics_book.htm), and he is currently investigating trade disputes, the environment and location adjustments in resource peripheries, and co-writing with Jerry Patchell, Economic Geography in Place and Space: An Institutional Perspective. He holds an MA from the University of Alberta, a PhD from the University of Washington and is currently editor of the Canadian Geographer.