Allan K. Fitzsimmons

Reforming Federal Land Management (eBook, PDF)

Cutting the Gordian Knot

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

For over a century, American have created laws, processes, objectives, priorities, and rules for federal land management that often conflict, contradict, and undermine each other. We now find ourselves with inconsistent laws, unclear priorities, procedural mazes, and an antiquated bureaucratic structure. Processes and procedures often impede rather than aid management actions and prevent good stewardship. The overall result is a loss of public benefits and undesirable impact on natural resources. Allan Fitzsimmons presents a clear argument for major changes and offers new ideas for how those changes can be accomplished. Students and professionals interested in public policy, resource management, and environmental studies will find this book to be particularly interesting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216343165
• Artikelnr.: 75139658

Autorenporträt

Allan K. Fitzsimmons spent four decades in government and academia working on resource and public land issues. In 2007, he retired from the Department of the Interior where he was a Special Assistant in the immediate office of the Secretary. He has also worked for the National Park Service and the Department of Energy in various capacities. Among his academic positions, he chaired the Environmental Studies program at George Washington University. He is the author of Defending Illusions: Federal Protection of Ecosystems.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables
Preface
Introduction: The Nature and Scope of the Problem
Chapter 1: Federal Lands in the First Decade of the 21st Century
Chapter 2: Americans and the Land: Change Through Time
Chapter 3: Laws, Regulations, Policies, and Courts: Sources of Management
Direction
Chapter 4: Toward Cutting the Gordian Knot
Conclusion
Appendix A: Federal Acreage by State, Agency, and Region - 2008
Bibliography
About the Author