Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics

ISBN-13: 9780813337685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 292 str.

Charles Davis

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Political organizations and public-lands policy-making, John Freemuth and Gregg Cawley; livestock grazing on public rangelands, Charles Davis; timber production and the national forests, George Hoberg; hard-rock mining, Christopher Klyza; energy development, David H. Davis; national parks, William Lowry; wilderness policy, Craig Allin; political change and policy reform, C. Davis.

O autorze

Charles Davis