Western Public Lands And Environmental PoliticsAvalon Publishing, 9 Ιαν 2001 - 240 σελίδες Beset by competing interests, efforts by federal agencies, Congress, and the courts to balance ecological and economic values in the development of federal land policies have produced a wide range of outcomes. This revised and updated volume of Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics examines the interplay between political organizations, interest groups, economic conditions, and demographic shifts, offering an explanation of changes in policies during this period that affected the management of rangeland, timber, energy, mineral, and wilderness resources. The book includes an entirely new chapter on wildlife policy and a review of different federal programs affecting public lands. It will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental politics and policy, natural resource management, public policy, and environmental history as well as to the general reader. |
Περιεχόμενα
The Context of Public Lands Policy
Change Charles Davis | 1 |
Part I Participants Processes and
the Policy Framework | 9 |
Interest Groups States
and the Federal Government Sandra K Davis | 11 |
Change and Continuity in the
Bureau of Land Management Fish and Wildlife Service
Forest Service and National Park Service 19702000
Jeanne Nie... | 35 |
Part II Programs | 53 |
The Transformation of Federal Forest Policy George Hoberg | 55 |
5 Politics and Public Rangeland Policy Charles Davis | 87 |
Mining Policy on Federal Lands Christopher McGrory Klyza | 111 |
8 National Parks Policy William R Lowry | 169 |
9 Wilderness Policy Craig W Allin | 197 |
10 Wildlife Policy Lisa Nelson | 223 |
Part III Policy Change | 251 |
Public Lands and Policy Change Charles Davis | 253 |
Contributors | 265 |
267 | |
7 Energy on Federal Lands David Howard Davis | 141 |
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