Privatizing public lands / Scott Lehmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehmann, Scott, author.

Series:

Environmental ethics and science policy

Oxford scholarship online

Environmental ethics and science policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public lands--United States--Management.

Public lands.

United States.

Management.

Privatization--United States.

Privatization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the US, private ownership of land is not a new idea, yet the federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges. Managing these properties is expensive and contentious, and few management decisions escape criticism. Some observers, however, argue that such criticism is largely misdirected. The fundamental problem, in their view, is collective ownership and its solution is privatization. A free market, they claim, directs privately owned resources to their most productive uses, and privatizing public lands would create a free market in their services. This timely study critically examines these issues, arguing that there is no sense of 'productivity' for which it is true that greater productivity is both desirable and a likely consequence of privatizing public lands or 'marketizing' their management.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher information.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

9780197560587

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.