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Category : Rangelands
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Western Range Revisited
Author: Debra L. DonahuePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806132983
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Livestock grazing is the most widespread commercial use of federal public lands. The image of a herd grazing on Bureau of Land Management or U.S. Forest Service lands is so traditional that many view this use as central to the history and culture of the West. Yet the grazing program costs far more to administer than it generates in revenues, and grazing affects all other uses of public lands, causing potentially irreversible damage to native wildlife and vegetation. The Western Range Revisited proposes a landscape-level strategy for conserving native biological diversity on federal rangelands, a strategy based chiefly on removing livestock from large tracts of arid BLM lands in ten western states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming. Drawing from range ecology, conservation biology, law, and economics, Debra L. Donahue examines the history of federal grazing policy and the current debate on federal multiple-use, sustained-yield policies and changing priorities for our public lands. Donahue, a lawyer and wildlife biologist, uses existing laws and regulations, historical documents, economic statistics, and current scientific thinking to make a strong case for a land-management strategy that has been, until now, "unthinkable." A groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, The Western Range Revisited demonstrates that conserving biodiversity by eliminating or reducing livestock grazing makes economic sense, is ecologically expedient, and can be achieved under current law.
The Western Range
Author: United States. Forest ServicePublisher:
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Category : Livestock
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
General Technical Report INT
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Proceedings--Range Economics Symposium and Workshop, August 31-September 2, 1982, Salt Lake City, Utah
Author: Why Australia Prospered
Author: Ian W. McLeanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691171335
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how Australia cultivated and sustained economic growth and success. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors. These included imperial policies, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth-enhancing policy responses to major economic shocks, such as war, depression, and resource discoveries. Natural resource abundance in Australia played a prominent role in some periods and faded during others, but overall, and contrary to the conventional view of economists, it was a blessing rather than a curse. McLean shows that Australia's location was not a hindrance when the international economy was centered in the North Atlantic, and became a positive influence following Asia's modernization. Participation in the world trading system, when it flourished, brought significant benefits, and during the interwar period when it did not, Australia's protection of domestic manufacturing did not significantly stall growth. McLean also considers how the country's notorious origins as a convict settlement positively influenced early productivity levels, and how British imperial policies enhanced prosperity during the colonial period. He looks at Australia's recent resource-based prosperity in historical perspective, and reveals striking elements of continuity that have underpinned the evolution of the country's economy since the nineteenth century.
Natural Resource Economics
Author: S. V. Ciriacy-WantrupPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429717776
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This volume was assembled by two of Dr. Wantrup's students as a complement to his textbook, Resource Conservation: Economics and Policies. Wantrup's ideas on conservation economics continued to evolve in ways that were never fully reflected in that text, and although for the student of natural resource economics it is still essential reading, to st
Water Resources and Economic Development of the West
Author: Western Agricultural Economics Research Council. Committee on the Economics of Water Resources DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Water resources development
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Valuation Of Wildland Resource Benefits
Author: George PetersonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000002497
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive review of the advanced techniques in the valuation of wildland benefits. It discusses concepts and problems in wildland benefit valuation, offering perspectives on the role of benefit-cost analysis as a decision-making tool in the formation of public land policy.
Range Ecosystem Research
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Category : Grassland ecology
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
This publication outlines the direction we have chosen to take with rangeland research in the Forest Service, and explains the underlying philosophy.