Keeping faith with nature : ecosystems, democracy & America's public lands / / Robert B. Keiter

• Autore: Keiter Robert B. <1946->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (434 p.) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 333.7/2/0973
• Soggetto topico: Environmental policy - United States; Public lands - United States; Conservation of natural resources - United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Policy and Power on the Public Domain -- 3. Ecology and the Public Domain -- 4. Ecology Triumphant? -- 5. Making Amends with the Past -- 6. Shaping a New Heritage -- 7. Collaborative Conservation -- 8. Toward a New Order -- 9. Keeping Faith with Nature -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: As the twenty-first century dawns, public land policy is entering a new era. This timely book examines the historical, scientific, political, legal, and institutional developments that are changing management priorities and policies-developments that compel us to view the public lands as an integrated ecological entity and a key biodiversity stronghold. Once the background is set, each chapter opens with a specific natural resource controversy, ranging from the Pacific Northwest's spotted owl imbroglio to the struggle over southern Utah's Colorado Plateau country. Robert Keiter uses these case histories to analyze the ideas, forces, and institutions that are both fomenting and retarding change. Although Congress has the final say in how the public domain is managed, the public land agencies, federal courts, and western communities are each playing important roles in the transformation to an ecological management regime. At the same time, a newly emergent and homegrown collaborative process movement has given the public land constituencies a greater role in administering these lands. Arguing that we must integrate the new imperatives of ecosystem science with our devolutionary political tendencies, Keiter outlines a coherent new approach to natural resources policy.
• Titolo autorizzato: Keeping faith with nature
• ISBN: 1-281-72164-6; 9786611721640; 0-300-12827-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777856703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II