The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-0-87071-022-3
Verlag: Oregon State University Press

Buch, Englisch, 315 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolters, Erika Allen

Steel, Brent S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Landschaftsplanung, Ländliche Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Verwaltungswissenschaft, Öffentliche Verwaltung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface - Brent S. Steel
- Foreword - Kathleen Dean Moore
- Part One: The Changing West
- Chapter 1: Old West, New West, Next West? - Donna L. Lybecker
- Part Two: Public Lands Management in the West
- Chapter 2: Western Public Land and the Evolving Management Landscape - John Ruple
- Chapter 3: Rangeland policy and management in a changing West: Political marginalization and a crisis of trust - Mark Brunson
- Part Three: National Forest and Wildland Fire Policy
- Chapter 4: Professionalism vs. Politics: The century-long battle over national forest policy - Tom Koontz
- Chapter 5: Wildland Fire Policy and Climate Change: Evolution of Fire Policy and Current Needs - Eric Toman
- Part Four: Federal Land Ownership in the West
- Chapter 6: Wild Places and Irreplaceable Resources: Protecting Wilderness and National Monuments - John Ruple
- Chapter 7: National Parks: Preserving America's Natural and Cultural Heritage - Robert B. Keiter
- Part Five: Water in the West
- Chapter 8: The Changing Fate of Western Rivers: The Case of the Colorado - Doug Kenney
- Part Six: Wildlife
- Chapter 9: Introduction to Wildlife Management on Public Lands - Lauren Anderson
- Chapter 10: Endangered Species, Wildlife Corridors, and Climate Change in the US West - Jodi A. Hilty, Aerin L. Jacobs, Kim G. Trotter, Maya J. Hilty, Hilary C. Young
- Part Seven: Energy Development in the West
- Chapter 11: Renewable Energy Development in the American West - Anna Karmazina
- Chapter 12: Regulating Oil and Gas on Federal Lands under Presidents Bush II, Obama and Trump - Charles Davis
- Chapter 13: Mining on Federal Land: Policy and Costs of Doing Business - P. Casey Giordono
- Part Eight: Land Ownership, Sovereign Rights, and Conflict in the West
- Chapter 14: Implications of Tribal Sovereignty, Federal Trust Responsibility, and Congressional Plenary Authority for Native American Lands Management - Shane Day
- Chapter 15: Western Rebellion: Who Owns the West? - Christopher P. Simon, Erika Allen Wolters, Brent S. Steel
- Conclusion - Brent S. Steel, Erika Allen Wolters and Rebecca L.Warner

Über Autor(innen)

Erika Allen Wolters is director of the OSU Policy Analysis Laboratory (OPAL) at Oregon State University.

Brent S. Steel is director of the Public Policy Graduate Program at Oregon State University.

Other Contributors:

Kathleen Dean Moore, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University

P. Casey Giordano, Oregon State University

Hilary C Young, Senior Alberta Program Manager, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

Mark Brunson, Professor, Utah State University

Doug Kenney, Director, Western Water Policy Program, University of Colorado

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Eric Toman, Associate Professor, Ohio State University

Tom Koontz, Professor of Environmental Policy, UW-Tacoma

Dr. Donna L. Lybecker, Idaho State University

Rebecca L Warner

John Ruple, Professor of Law (Research), University of Utah

Shane Day

Lauren Anderson

Anna Karmazina, Renewable Energy Development in the American West, Oregon State University

Christean Jenkins

Maya J Hilty

Christopher A Simon, Professor, University of Utah

Kim G Trotter, US Program Director, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

Aerin L Jacob

Robert B Keiter

Jodi A Hilty, President and Chief Scientist, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.