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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2001-06-01
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN
- 9781559638425
- Book Title
- This Sovereign Land : a New Vision for Governing the West
- Publisher
- Island Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Nature, Law, Political Science, Business & Economics
- Topic
- Public Policy / General, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Land Use, Development / Economic Development, American Government / General, American Government / State, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Island Press
ISBN-10
1559638427
ISBN-13
9781559638425
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1876586
Product Key Features
Edition
2
Book Title
This Sovereign Land : a New Vision for Governing the West
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / General, Environmental Conservation & Protection, Land Use, Development / Economic Development, American Government / General, American Government / State, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Publication Year
2001
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Law, Political Science, Business & Economics
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2001-002093
Reviews
"Daniel Kemmis is a creative, innovative, 'outside-of-the-box' thinker who makes a persuasive argument for a radical cahnge that just might have you writing your Congressman when you finish the last chapter. " --Natural Resources Journal
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
333.1/0978
Table Of Content
PrefaceAcknowledgments Introduction: The Lay of the LandChapter 1. The Lost TrailChapter 2. Imperial OriginsChapter 3. A Century of RebellionChapter 4. The Decline of the EmpireChapter 5. A Maturing RegionChapter 6. A Homegrown Western DemocracyChapter 7. An Irrepressible ConflictChapter 8. How the West Might Govern the WestChapter 9. Realigning Western Politics NotesIndex
Synopsis
In the eight states of the interior West (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming), 260 million acres -- more than 48 percent of the land base -- are owned by the federal government and managed by its Washington, D.C.-based agencies. Like many other peoples throughout history who have bristled under the controlling ......, In the eight states of the interior West (Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming), 260 million acres -- more than 48 percent of the land base -- are owned by the federal government and managed by its Washington, D.C.-based agencies. Like many other peoples throughout history who have bristled under the controlling hand of a remote government, westerners have long nursed a deep resentment toward our nation's capital. Rumblings of revolution have stirred for decades, bolstered in recent years by increasing evidence of the impossibility of a distant, centralized government successfully managing the West's widespread and far-flung lands.In This Sovereign Land, Daniel Kemmis offers a radical new proposal for giving the West control over its land. Unlike those who wish to privatize the public lands and let market forces decide their fate, Kemmis, a leading western Democrat and committed environmentalist, argues for keeping the public lands public, but for shifting jurisdiction over them from nation to region. In place of the current centralized management, he offers a regional approach that takes into account natural topographical and ecological features, and brings together local residents with a vested interest in ensuring the sustainability of their communities. In effect, Kemmis carries to their logical conclusion the recommendations about how the West should be governed made by John Wesley Powell more than a century ago.Throughout, Kemmis argues that the West no longer needs to be protected against itself by a paternalistic system and makes a compelling case that the time has come for the region to claim sovereignty over its own landscape. This Sovereign Land provides a provocative opening to a much-needed discussion about how democracy and ecological sustainability can go hand in hand, and will be essential reading for anyone interested in the West and western issues, as well as for all those concerned with place-based conservation, public lands management, bioregionalism, or related topics., This work proposes that the management of public lands by the federal government of the USA is no longer working in the eastern part of the country. The author believes that the West should manage its owm public lands, under various governmental structures. He argues that the West, by rights, should have control over the land in its region. It points to the efforts all over the West as evidence of the West's maturity and also as a model for how the West would govern its lands.
LC Classification Number
HD243.W38K46 2001
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