Who Controls Public Lands
Mining, Forestry, and Grazing Policies, 1870-1990
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3305390 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Harvey (0000-0001-9901-9921), Mark S Harvey (0000-0003-1482-0109), Christopher Mcgrory Klyza |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Publication date | 1997-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Western Historical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-3810 • E-ISSN: 1939-8603 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/971224 |
| OpenAlex | W2496842361 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time. According to Klyza, understanding the different philosophies that gave rise to each policy regime is crucial to reforming public-lands policy in the future. Klyza begins by delineating how prevailing policy philosophies over the course of the last century have shaped each of the three land-use patterns he discusses. In mining, the model was economic liberalism, which mandated privatization of public lands; in forestry, it was technocratic utilitarianism, which called for government ownership and management of land; and in grazing, it was interest-group liberalism, in which private interests determined government policy. Each of these philosophies held sway in the years during which policy for that particular resource was formed, says Klyza, and continues to animate it even today. |With the arrival of European settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution lasted until the nineteenth century, when New England's industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions of nature in the region. In a preface to the second edition, Merchant introduces new ideas about narrating environmental change based on gender and the dialectics of transformation, while the revised epilogue situates New England in the context of twenty-first-century globalization and climate change
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Making science relevant to environmental policy
Closing the Public Lands Frontier
Barriers to Effective Natural Resource Planning in a "Messy" World
The Contribution of Institutional Theories to Explaining Decentralization of Natural Resource Governance
Exploring the Concept of “Ownership” in Natural Resource Planning
Preservation versus motorized recreation
Content analysis of resilience in forest fire science and management
"Left High and Dry"
Timber and Town
State Wildlife Policy and Management
| Citations per year | 0.39 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1998 - 2020 (23) |
| Highly cited | No |