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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keiter, Robert B., 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental policy--United States.

Environmental policy.

Public lands--United States.

Public lands.

Conservation of natural resources--United States.

Conservation of natural resources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (434 p.) : ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611721640

9781281721648

1281721646

9780300128277

0300128274

OCLC:

1013954611