Who Is Minding The Federal Estate

Author : Holly Lippke Fretwell
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 073913101X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who is Minding the Federal Estate? written by Holly Lippke Fretwell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small-town Idaho, where everyone knows your business, is no place for a baby dyke to go looking for love. Especially when murder and homophobia are stalking the streets. For Wilhelmina "Bil" Hardy, trapped in the coils of her eccentric family and off-the-wall friends, neither the course of true love nor amateur sleuthing runs smooth. Mistaken identity, misunderstandings, and mysteries galore take Bil to places she's never dreamed of visiting. Idaho Code is a funny book about love, family, and the freedom you can find in a state that values individuality more than common sense. Joan Opyr's hobbies are politics, politics, and politics, though, for the sake of variation, she has been known occasionally to dance the polka.

Author : Holly Lippke Fretwell
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739131036
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Is Minding the Federal Estate? written by Holly Lippke Fretwell and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-03-16 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sewage seeping into creeks, crumbling cabins and disintegrating roads, dilapidated visitor centers, catastrophic wildfires: these are some of the sights awaiting visitors to federal lands today. Federal agencies in charge of the public domain call for more support in the form of taxpayer dollars while constantly seeking to add to their holdings; environmental groups call for increased restrictions on land use and resource development; private citizens call for a return to the good old days of crisply tended, crime-free, and unspoiled national parks. All, it seems, overlook the sad fact that the existing federal estate is in terrible shape, badly maintained and managed, and with no immediate hope for improvement. Will more money, more restrictions, more regulations address the problems that plague America's public domain? No: Rather, real improvement requires reform of the managing institutions. Who Is Minding the Federal Estate? is a book intended for any reader with an interest in improving the condition of our public lands. It begins by examining the origins of the federal estate, which, though originally intended to be a temporary clearinghouse, now comprises a third of the U.S. landmass. The book describes the evolution of laws governing that estate and of the public conception of wilderness_once thought to be abundant and in need of taming, now considered to be inviolable and even sacrosanct. In non-technical prose that draws on economic theory and empirical analysis, it systematically investigates patterns of federal land management_and, more to the point, mismanagement. The book closes by offering a set of alternatives that will improve stewardship of the federal estate both by incorporating more private initiatives and by freeing those lands from the grasp of politicians who come and go in favor of a sustainable, long-term management ethic. These alternatives come unshackled by policies that lead to disasters such as the recent and ongoing epidemic of massive fires sweeping the forests of the West.

Author : Allan K. Fitzsimmons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 144221595X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reforming Federal Land Management written by Allan K. Fitzsimmons and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-03-21 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : T. Anderson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137443391
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation written by T. Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a vision for environmentalism's future, based on the success of environmental entrepreneurs around the world. The work provides the next generation of environmental market ideas and the chapters are co-authored with young scholars and policy analysts who represent the next generation of environmental leaders.

Author : Clifford Winston
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815739338
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaining Ground written by Clifford Winston and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on ways that markets work with, rather than against, governments to enhance public welfare. The optimal mix of market forces and government intervention to allocate resources is one of the longest-standing problems facing human civilization. At the theoretical extremes, resources in centrally planned economies are allocated by the government, while resources in capitalist economies are allocated by private markets. In practice, market forces and government interventions co-exist to allocate goods and services in a political environment with shifting pressures to give one approach more responsibility than the other. Current public attitudes toward markets are at a low point in the wake of the Great Recession and the growth in income inequality that began in the 1970s. However, in this book, noted Brookings economist Clifford Winston argues that it is a serious mistake to overlook that markets will be a critical part of the solution to any public objective—whether it be to reduce inequality, stimulate long-term growth, slow climate change, or eliminate COVID 19. In Winston's view, policymakers should be much more aware of the many ways that markets help government to achieve economic and social goals and the potential that markets have to provide greater assistance in achieving those goals. Winston synthesizes the empirical evidence on the efficacy of markets in helping to protect consumers against anti-competitive behavior and when technology appears to prevent price competition; to enable individuals to make more informed decisions; and to reduce negative externalities, improve public production, and encourage innovations. Importantly, Winston presents evidence indicating how markets can also help to reduce poverty, promote fairness in labor markets, and provide merit goods. Winston subjects his assessment to a robustness test by explaining how market forces have helped to address the COVID-19 pandemic by, for example, finding new ways for people to work safely and providing incentives for pharmaceutical companies to develop safe and effective vaccines. Winston takes a proactive approach in his conclusion by suggesting the formation of a major “Commission” composed of academics, policymakers, and businesspeople. Such a panel could explore how market forces could provide greater help to government to address economic and social problems and could provide specific recommendations to facilitate market solutions where appropriate.

Author : Todd J. Zywicki
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022634116X
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supreme Court Economic Review, Volume 23 written by Todd J. Zywicki and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Supreme Court Economic Review is a faculty-edited, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary series that applies world class economic and legal scholarship to the work of the Supreme Court of the United States. Contributions typically provide an economic analysis of the events that generated the Court's cases, its functioning as an organization, the reasoning the Court employs in reaching its decisions, and the societal impact of these verdicts. Beyond academic analysis, SCER contributors stimulate interest in the economic dimension of the Supreme Court and explore solutions for its manifold and complex problems.

Author : Terry L. Anderson
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 0817948538
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greener than Thou written by Terry L. Anderson and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a powerful argument for free market environmentalism, Terry Anderson and Laura Huggins break down liberal and conservative stereotypes of what it means to be an environmentalist. They show that, by forming local coalitions around market principles, stereotypes are replaced by pragmatic solutions that improve environmental quality without necessarily increasing red tape.

Author : Michael Shally-Jensen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313392056
Total Pages : 1988 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues [4 volumes] written by Michael Shally-Jensen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 1988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This single-source reference will help students and general readers alike understand the most critical issues facing American society today. Featuring the work of almost 200 expert contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Social Issues comprises four volumes, each devoted to a particular subject area. Volume one covers business and the economy; volume two, criminal justice; volume three, family and society; and volume four, the environment, science, and technology. Coverage within these volumes ranges from biotechnology to identity theft, from racial profiling to corporate governance, from school choice to food safety. The work brings into focus a broad array of key issues confronting American society today. Approximately 225 in-depth entries lay out the controversies debated in the media, on campuses, in government, in boardrooms, and in homes and neighborhoods across the United States. Critical issues in criminology, medicine, religion, commerce, education, the environment, media, family life, and science are all carefully described and examined in a scholarly yet accessible way. Sidebars, photos, charts, and graphs throughout augment the entries, making them even more compelling and informative.

Author : James Delingpole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621571785
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Green Book of Eco-Fascism written by James Delingpole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in A to Z format and printed on guaranteed un-recycled paper made from the pulp of a thousand rare hardwood trees using nothing but the purest cruel-harvested baby squid ink, ,The Little Green Book of Eco-Fascism is your pocket guide to everything that’s wrong, funny, and downright crazy about the green movement

Author : Matt Grossmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190243325
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artists of the Possible written by Matt Grossmann and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do policymakers heed the voices of the American public or only the lobbyists in Washington? Why do they take action on health reform, but not gun control? Why does policymaking usually move slowly, and sometimes not at all? Artists of the Possible takes on these questions, analyzing sixty years of domestic policy history to provide a new understanding of what drives policymaking in all three branches of government. The results are surprising: public policy does not address the public's largest concerns. The amount of policy-and its liberal or conservative direction-emerges instead from coalition building and compromises among political elites. Elections, public opinion, and media coverage have little impact, no matter the issue area. Even changes in Washington's partisan balance and ideological divides fail to reliably produce shifts in policy direction. This data-rich, exhaustively researched work overturns our most basic assumptions about how policy is made, challenging the notion that our government is of, by, and for the people.