Dean of Arts at Simon Fraser University for two consecutive five-year terms, geographer John Pierce is the author of, or contributor to:

Agricultural Land in an Urban Society (AAG Resource Publications in Geography, 1982) with O.J. Furuseth.

The Food Resource (Longman, 1990, 1992)

Communities, Development, and Sustainability Across Canada. (UBC Press, 1999) with Anne Dale. Editors.

Reshaping of Rural Ecologies, Economies and Communities (SFU, 2000) with D. Prager and R. Smith (eds.). Proceedings from The IGU's Commission on the Sustainability of Rural Systems.

Promoting Community Economic Development for Forest-Based Communities (2000, SFU Community Economic Development Centre) with Mark Roseland. Executive Summary, Summary Report and Final Report.

Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia (UBC Press, 2005) with S. Markey, K. Vodden, and M. Roseland.


[BCBW 2012]

Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Second Growth: Community Economic Development in Rural British Columbia