The next West public lands, community, and economy in the American West /

In The Next West, nearly a dozen leading thinkers and writers offer an insightful vision of the future of the American West. Their essays comprise a cogent matrix of reflections on what has gone wrong in the region, and, as Donald Snow explains in his lively introduction, point the way to a Next Wes...

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Other Authors: Baden, John., Snow, Donald., Gallatin Institute.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1997.
Washington, D.C. : [1997]
Physical Description: xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Table of Contents:
  • Struck with consequence / Stephen Bodio
  • New forestry in the next West / Rocky Barker
  • The bizarre and unsettling saga of Whitney Benefits: a federal parable / Samuel Western
  • Closing the loop / Jim McMahon
  • Blood and cotton / Tom Wolf
  • The True-Mann's West: endangered and forsaken? / John A. Baden
  • Saving the marketplace from the market: one view of the new resource economics / Mark Sagoff
  • John Wesley Powell and the unmaking of the West / Karl Hess, Jr.
  • Empire or homelands? A revival of Jeffersonian democracy in the American West / Donald Snow
  • Is 'libertarian environmentalist' an oxymoron? The crisis of progressive faith and the environmental and libertarian search for a new guiding vision / Robert H. Nelson
  • Ideology, wishful thinking, and pragmatic reform: a constructive critique of free-market environmentalism / Thomas Michael Power.