What's Ahead for Our Public Lands?
Author: Hamilton K. Pyles
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 368
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Author: Hamilton K. Pyles
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Hamilton K. Pyles
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 366
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William R. Lowry
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 1998-10-01
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781589013957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComparing national efforts to preserve public lands, William R. Lowry investigates how effectively and under what conditions governments can provide goods for future generations. Providing intergenerational goods, ranging from balanced budgets to space programs and natural environments, is particularly challenging because most political incentives reward short-term behavior. Lowry examines the effect of institutional structure on the public delivery of these goods. He offers a theoretical framework accounting for both the necessary conditions — public demand, political stability, and official commitment to long-term delivery — and constraining factors — the tensions between public agencies and politicians as well as between different levels of government — that determine the ability of a nation to achieve long-term goals. In support of this argument, Lowry evaluates data on park systems from more than one hundred countries and provides in-depth case studies of four — he United States, Australia, Canada, and Costa Rica — to show how and why the delivery of intergenerational goods can vary. For each of the cases, he reviews background information, discusses constraints on agency behavior, and assesses expansion of the park systems and restoration of natural conditions at specific locations. This extensive comparative analysis of the preservation of public lands offers new insights into the capability of nations to pursue long-term goals.
Author: Andrus Center for Public Policy
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael P. Dombeck
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Published: 2003-02
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Conquest to Conservation is a visionary new work from three of the nation’s most knowledgeable experts on public lands. As chief of the Forest Service, Mike Dombeck became a lightning rod for public debate over issues such as the management of old-growth forests and protecting roadless areas. Dombeck also directed the Bureau of Land Management from 1994 to 1997 and is the only person ever to have led the two largest land management agencies in the United States. Chris Wood and Jack Williams have similarly spent their careers working to steward public resources, and the authors bring unparalleled insight into the challenges facing public lands and how those challenges can be met. Here, they examine the history of public lands in the United States and consider the most pressing environmental and social problems facing public lands. Drawing heavily on fellow Forest Service employee Aldo Leopold’s land ethic, they offer specific suggestions for new directions in policy and management that can help maintain and restore the health, diversity, and productivity of public land and water resources, both now and into the future. Also featured are lyrical and heartfelt essays from leading writers, thinkers, and scientists— including Bruce Babbitt, Rick Bass, Patricia Nelson Limerick, and Gaylord Nelson—about the importance of public lands and the threats to them, along with original drawings by William Millonig.
Author: Robert Henry Nelson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780847680092
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the leading experts on public lands and land rights issues, Robert H. Nelson here brings together a collection of his finest essays. Nelson demonstrates that the 'progressive' goal of achieving scientific management of public lands has not been realized; instead, public land management has been dominated by interest group politics and ideology.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 494
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on the Environment
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Natural Resources Council of America
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 343
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Herman Haupt Chapman
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Total Pages: 10
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