Rethinking The Federal Lands

Author : Sterling Brubaker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317311706

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Rethinking the Federal Lands by Sterling Brubaker Pdf

The federal government is by far the largest landowner in the United States. It is somewhat of an anomaly for the federal government to hold vast acreages of land in an economy where the prevailing ideology favours private ownership. The Reagan administration’s (1981-1989) proposal to increase energy and mineral development on federal lands, to accelerate timber harvesting in national forests, and to expand the sale of federal lands generated strong and vocal opposition. Originally published in 1984, in the midst of the Reagan era, Rethinking the Federal Lands examines why the U.S. has retained federal lands and questions how ownership affects the management of federal lands and the total benefits society derives from them. This title is ideal for students interested in environmental studies and policy making.

Author : Sterling Brubaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0915707012

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Rethinking the Federal Lands by Sterling Brubaker Pdf

Author : Randall K. Wilson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538126400

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America's Public Lands by Randall K. Wilson Pdf

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 : Edward Ludwig Glaeser,Joseph E. Gyourko
Publisher : A E I Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39076002809775

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Rethinking Federal Housing Policy by Edward Ludwig Glaeser,Joseph E. Gyourko Pdf

In Rethinking Federal Housing Policy: How to Make Housing Plentiful and Affordable, Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko explain why housing is so expensive in some areas and outline a plan for making it more affordable.

Author : Margret Grebowicz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804793421

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The National Park to Come by Margret Grebowicz Pdf

Historians of wilderness have shown that nature reserves are used ideologically in the construction of American national identity. But the contemporary problem of wilderness demands examination of how profoundly nature-in-reserve influences something more fundamental, namely what counts as being well, having a life, and having a future. What is wellness for the citizens to whom the parks are said to democratically belong? And how does the presence of foreigners threaten this wellness? Recent critiques of the Wilderness Act focus exclusively on its ecological effects, ignoring the extent to which wilderness policy affects our contemporary collective experience and political imagination. Tracing the challenges that migration and indigenousness currently pose to the national park system and the Wilderness Act, Grebowicz foregrounds concerns with social justice against the ecological and aesthetic ones that have created and continue to shape these environments. With photographs by Jacqueline Schlossman.

Author : Robert Henry Nelson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847680096

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Public Lands and Private Rights by Robert Henry Nelson Pdf

One 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 : Robert W. Poole
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226557601

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Rethinking America's Highways by Robert W. Poole Pdf

A transportation expert makes a provocative case for changing the nation’s approach to highways, offering “bold, innovative thinking on infrastructure” (Rick Geddes, Cornell University). Americans spend hours every day sitting in traffic. And the roads they idle on are often rough and potholed, with exits, tunnels, guardrails, and bridges in terrible disrepair. According to transportation expert Robert Poole, this congestion and deterioration are outcomes of the way America manages its highways. Our twentieth-century model overly politicizes highway investment decisions, short-changing maintenance and often investing in projects whose costs exceed their benefits. In Rethinking America’s Highways, Poole examines how our current model of state-owned highways came about and why it is failing to satisfy its customers. He argues for a new model that treats highways themselves as public utilities—like electricity, telephones, and water supply. If highways were provided commercially, Poole argues, people would pay for highways based on how much they used, and the companies would issue revenue bonds to invest in facilities people were willing to pay for. Arguing for highway investments to be motivated by economic rather than political factors, this book makes a carefully-reasoned and well-documented case for a new approach to highways.

Author : Geological Survey (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Coal
ISBN : OSU:32435062904123

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Economic Effects of Western Federal Land Use Restrictions on U.S. Coal Markets by Geological Survey (U.S.) Pdf

A study of the long-terme economic implications of land-use restrictions on the availability of the nation's coal resources.

Author : Meinhard Doelle,A. John Sinclair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Environmental impact analysis
ISBN : 1552215733

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The Next Generation of Impact Assessment by Meinhard Doelle,A. John Sinclair Pdf

"The Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal are unique among Canada's courts because they are itinerant -- they hear cases in all parts of Canada -- as well as bilingual and bijural. This book was prepared for the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Federal Courts of Canada in 2021. Seventy-eight current and retired judges on the two courts were interviewed and are referred to throughout the book. The authors present a brief history of these courts and their predecessor -- the Exchequer Court of Canada -- and an overview of the courts' jurisdiction, decision-making trends, and unique attributes. There are chapters on each of the courts' specialties -- administrative law, immigration and refugee law, intellectual property, security and intelligence, Indigenous issues, the environment, admiralty, labour and human rights, and tax. Chief Justice Noèel and Chief Justice Crampton each contribute a chapter. The preface is by Justice Frank Iacobucci and the epilogue by Justice Robert Dâecary."--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Power resources
ISBN : UOM:39015026720246

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Energy Abstracts for Policy Analysis by Anonim Pdf

Author : David R. Boyd
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774840637

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Unnatural Law by David R. Boyd Pdf

While governments assert that Canada is a world leader in sustainability, Unnatural Law provides extensive evidence to refute this claim. A comprehensive assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of Canadian environmental law, the book provides a balanced, critical examination of Canada's record, focusing on laws and policies intended to protect water, air, land, and biodiversity. Three decades of environmental laws have produced progress in a number of important areas, such as ozone depletion, protected areas, and some kinds of air and water pollution. However, Canada's overall record remains poor. In this vital and timely study, David Boyd explores the reasons why some laws and policies foster progress while others fail. He ultimately concludes that the root cause of environmental degradation in industrialized nations is excessive consumption of resources. Unnatural Law outlines the innovative changes in laws and policies that Canada must implement in order to respond to the ecological imperative of living within the Earth's limits. The struggle for a sustainable future is one of the most daunting challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. Everyone - academics, lawyers, students, policy-makers, and concerned citizens - interested in the health of the Canadian and global environments will find Unnatural Law an invaluable source of information and insight. For more information on Unnatural Law visit David Boyd's site, www.unnaturallaw.com.

Author : Charles F. Wilkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992-09
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015028486291

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Crossing the Next Meridian by Charles F. Wilkinson Pdf

In Crossing the Next Meridian, Wilkinson explains to a general audience some of the core problems that face the American West, both now and in the years to come. An expert on federal public lands, Native American issues, and the West's arcane water laws, Wilkinson looks at the outmoded ideas that pervade land use and resource allocation. He argues that significant reform of Western law is needed to combat environmental decline and heal splintered communities. Interweaving legal history with examples of present-day consequences, both intended and unintended, Wilkinson traces the origins and development of Western laws and regulations. He relates stories of Westerners who face these issues on a day-to-day basis and discusses what can and should be done to bring government policies in line with the reality of twentieth-century American life. His examination seeks a middle ground between those who champion unrestricted growth and those who advocate complete preservation.

Author : Roger E. Meiners,Bruce Yandle,Robert Crandall
Publisher : Independent Institute
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781598132991

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Regulation and the Reagan Era by Roger E. Meiners,Bruce Yandle,Robert Crandall Pdf

Was the so-called “Reagan Revolution” a disappointment regarding the federal systems of special-interest regulation? Many of that administration's friends as well as its opponents think so. But under what criteria? To what extent? And why? When Ronald Reagan was elected in 1980, the popular belief was that the size of government would be cut and that some of the regulatory excesses of the prior decade would be rolled back. However, the growth of the federal government continued throughout the Reagan presidency and no agencies were phased out. What were the apparently powerful forces that rendered most of the bureaucracy impervious to reform? In this book, professional economists and lawyers who were at, or near, the top of the decision-making process in various federal agencies during the Reagan years discuss attempts to reign in the bureaucracy. Their candid comments and personal insights shed new light on the susceptibility of the American government to bureaucratic interests. This book is required reading for anyone wishing to understand the true reasons why meaningful, effective governmental reform at the federal level is so difficult, regardless of which political party controls the White House or Congress.

Author : Julia M. Wondolleck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781489907981

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Public Lands Conflict and Resolution by Julia M. Wondolleck Pdf

The United States Forest Service, perhaps more than any other federal agency, has made great strides during the past two decades revolution izing its public involvement efforts and reshaping its profile through the hiring of professionals in many disciplinary areas long absent in the agency. In fact, to a large extent, the agency has been doing precisely what everyone has been clamoring for it to do: involving the public more in its decisions; hiring more wildlife biologists, recreation specialists, sociologists, planners, and individuals with "people skills"; and, fur thermore, taking a more comprehensive and long-term view in planning the future of the national forests. The result has been significant-in some ways, monumental-changes in the agency and its land manage ment practices. There are provisions for public input in almost all as pects of national forest management today. The profeSSional disciplines represented throughout the agency's ranks are markedly more diverse than they have ever been. Moreover, no stone is left untumed in the agency's current forest-planning effort, undoubtedly the most compre hensive, interdisciplinary planning effort ever undertaken by a resource agency in the United States. Regardless of the dramatic change that has occurred in the U. S. Forest Service since the early 1970s, the agency is still plagued by con flicts arising from dissatisfaction ~th how it is doing business.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Rural development
ISBN : UOM:39015025338917

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Rural Development Perspectives by Anonim Pdf