Screen LibraryThe environmental politics and policy of Western public lands /
"The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and oft-contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a variety of stakeholders, including extractive industries like oil and timber; farmers, ranchers, and fishers; Native Americans; tourists; and envi...
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Oregon State University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Corvallis, OR : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and oft-contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a variety of stakeholders, including extractive industries like oil and timber; farmers, ranchers, and fishers; Native Americans; tourists; and environmentalists. Local, state, and government policies and approaches change according to the vagaries of scientific knowledge, the American and global economies, and political administrations. Occasionally, debates over public land usage erupt into major incidents, as with the armed occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. While a number of scholars work on the politics and policy of public land management, there has been no central book on the topic since the publication of Charles Davis's Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics (Westview, 2001). In The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands, Erika Allen Wolters and Brent Steel have assembled a stellar cast of scholars to consider long-standing issues and topics such as endangered species, land use, and water management while addressing more recent challenges to western public lands like renewable energy siting, fracking, Native American sovereignty, and land use rebellions. Chapters also address the impact of climate change on policy dimensions and scope. The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands is co-published with Oregon State University Open Educational Resources, who will release an open access edition alongside this print edition"--Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780870710223 0870710222 |
| Index Number: | GE185 |
| CLC: |
F299.712.32 X-017.12 |
| Call Number: | X-017.12/E618-6 |
| Contents: |
The old West, the new West and the next West / Western public land law and the evolving management landscape / Rangeland policy and management in a changing West : political marginalization and a crisis of trust / Professionalism versus politics : the century-long battle over national forest policy / Wildland fire policy and climate change : evolution of fire policy and current needs / The changing fate of Western rivers : the case of the Colorado / Wild places and irreplaceable resources : protecting wilderness and national monuments / National parks : preserving America's natural and cultural heritage / Introduction to wildlife management on public lands / Endangered species, wildlife corridors, and climate change in the US West / Renewable energy development in the American West / Regulating oil and gas on federal lands under Presidents Bush, Obama, and Trump / Mining on federal land : policy and costs of doing business / Implications of tribal sovereignty, federal trust responsibility, and congressional plenary authority for Native American lands management / Western rebellion : who owns the West? / The old West, the new West, and the next West? / |