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Author : Char Miller
Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Public Lands, Public Debates by : Char Miller
Download or read book Public Lands, Public Debates written by Char Miller. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author : United States. Congress Senate
Release : 1830
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Book Synopsis The Public Lands Debates by : United States. Congress Senate
Download or read book The Public Lands Debates written by United States. Congress Senate. This book was released on 1830. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Steven Davis
Release : 2018-05-21
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis In Defense of Public Lands by : Steven Davis
Download or read book In Defense of Public Lands written by Steven Davis. This book was released on 2018-05-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land and whether or not it should be privatized—or at least, radically reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented arguments. Steven Davis passionately advocates that public land ought to remain firmly in the public’s hands. He reviews empirical data and theoretical arguments from biological, economic, and political perspectives in order to build a case for why our public lands are an invaluable and irreplaceable asset for the American people. In Defense of Public Lands briefly lays out the history and characteristics of public lands at the local, state, and federal levels while examining the numerous policy prescriptions for their privatization or, in the case of federal lands, transfer. He considers the dimensions of environmental health; markets and valuation of public land, the tensions between collective values and individual preferences, the nature and performance of bureaucratic management, and the legitimacy of interest groups and community decision-making. Offering a fair, good faith overview of the privatizers’ best arguments before refuting them, this timely book contemplates both the immediate and long-term future of our public lands.
Author : Randall K. Wilson
Release : 2020-02-25
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis America's Public Lands by : Randall K. Wilson
Download or read book America's Public Lands written by Randall K. Wilson. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How it is that the United States—the country that cherishes the ideal of private property more than any other in the world—has chosen to set aside nearly one-third of its land area as public lands? Now in a fully revised and updated edition covering the first years of the Trump administration, Randall Wilson considers this intriguing question, tracing the often-forgotten ideas of nature that have shaped the evolution of America’s public land system. The result is a fresh and probing account of the most pressing policy and management challenges facing national parks, forests, rangelands, and wildlife refuges today. The author explores the dramatic story of the origins of the public domain, including the century-long effort to sell off land and the subsequent emergence of a national conservation ideal. Arguing that we cannot fully understand one type of public land without understanding its relation to the rest of the system, he provides in-depth accounts of the different types of public lands. With chapters on national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, Bureau of Land Management lands, and wilderness areas, Wilson examines key turning points and major policy debates for each land type, including recent Trump Administration efforts to roll back environmental protections. He considers debates ranging from national monument designations and bison management to gas and oil drilling, wildfire policy, the bark beetle epidemic, and the future of roadless and wilderness conservation areas. His comprehensive overview offers a chance to rethink our relationship with America’s public lands, including what it says about the way we relate to, and value, nature in the United States.
Author : Calvin Brant Short
Release : 1989
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands by : Calvin Brant Short
Download or read book Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands written by Calvin Brant Short. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal government holds a vast domain of American land. Does it hold these acres in trust for future generations and for the planet itself? Or does it hold them as a resource for economic development and growth? Indeed, should it hold them at all? These questions became a focal point for New Right politics in the 1980 presidential election that brought Ronald Reagan into the White House. The Sagebrush Rebellion and the New Right attempted to convince the public that environmentalism threatened the nation's wellbeing. Environmentalists sought new ground for fighting back. In this cogent analysis of the public lands debate, Brant Short looks at the New Right's positions and the strategies for advancing them, the origins of dissatisfaction in the Sagebrush Rebellion, and the opposition that arose as a new conservation consensus was formed. Short's approach places the contemporary conservation debate clearly within the context of environmental issues that have confronted Americans throughout our history. The perspective he offers on recurring rhetorical strategies illuminates the continuing schism over how our public lands should be used and maintained.
