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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.
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Westview Press; 2nd edition (January 1, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0813337682
ISBN-13: 978-0813337685
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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This is a nice collection of chapters on the management of western public lands. The papers are accessible to undergraduates or to the educated lay reader, but manage to convey the basics of sophisticated ideas about land management. Prior appropriation, externalities, ecosystem management, and other terms of art are introduced, explained, and made relevant. The authors do not have an ideological axe to grind, beyond the fact that they all care about what happens to the public lands that make up 30% of U.S. land area.When the book talks about western public lands, it mostly means the Intermountain West. The Pacific Coast is less visible in these chapters than Colorado, Montana and Wyoming. Alaska receives much less attention than its size warrants. Finally, the book lacks chapters about how non-land laws such as the Clean Water Act or Clean Air Act affect public land management.
Really great textbook but a good read if you're interested in Western US environmental policy. I particularly liked the fact that each chapter was written by someone different. There are TONS of details and a great deal of information on every topic.
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