Public Lands And The U.s. Economy : Balancing Conservation And Development (Paperback)

Westview Replica Editions -- Foreword -- Preface -- Three Perspectives on the Public Lands -- Public and Private Interests in the Federal Lands: Toward Conciliation -- The Public Interest in the Federal Lands and the Reagan Administration's Asset Management Program -- Access and Distributional Impacts of Public and Private Land Ownership -- A Property Rights Approach to Wilderness Management -- An Economist's Critique of Privatization -- The Wilderness System Isn't Broken and Doesn't Need Fixing -- Public Land Politics in the 1980s -- Federal-State Cooperation and Public Land Policy -- Timber Issues -- The Federal Preserve in the West: Environmental Champion or Economic Despoiler? -- Divestiture, Harvest Expansion and Economic Efficiency: The National Forests in the Early 1980s -- Community Stability and the Federal Lands -- Some Historical Trends in Timber Management -- Nonfuel Mineral Issues -- Better Management of Nonfuel Minerals on Federal Land: A Look at the Issues -- The Economic Significance of Mineral Resources -- Management of Non-fuel Minerals: A Mining Industry Perspective -- Mineral Facts and Fictions -- Rangeland Issues -- The Distribution of Benefits and Costs Associated with Public Rangelands -- Subsidization and Privatization of Federal Rangeland: A California Perspective -- Energy Resources Issues -- Energy Resources, Revenues and the Public Lands -- Explaining and Defending the Existing Federal Lands Energy Management System -- Oil Shale Problems and Issues -- Free Markets, States' Rights, and Federal Coal