The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands

Product Description
The management of public lands in the West is a matter of long-standing and oft-contentious debates. The government must balance the interests of a variety of stakeholders, including extractive industries like oil and timber; farmers, ranchers, and fishers; Native Americans; tourists; and environmentalists. Local, state, and government policies and approaches change according to the vagaries of scientific knowledge, the American and global economies, and political administrations. Occasionally, debates over public land usage erupt into major incidents, as with the armed occupation of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in 2016.
While a number of scholars work on the politics and policy of public land management, there has been no central book on the topic since the publication of Charles Davis's
Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics (Westview, 2001). In
The Environmental Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands, Erika Allen Wolters and Brent Steel have assembled a stellar cast of scholars to consider long-standing issues and topics such as endangered species, land use, and water management while addressing more recent challenges to western public lands like renewable energy siting, fracking, Native American sovereignty, and land use rebellions. Chapters also address the impact of climate change on policy dimensions and scope.
About the Author
Erika Allen Wolters is director of the OSU Policy Analysis Laboratory (OPAL) at Oregon State University; Brent S. Steel is director of the Public Policy Graduate Program at Oregon State University.
Other Contributors:
Kathleen Dean Moore, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University
P. Casey Giordano, Oregon State University
Hilary C Young, Senior Alberta Program Manager, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Mark Brunson, Professor, Utah State University
Doug Kenney, Director, Western Water Policy Program, University of Colorado
Edited by, Erika Allen Wolters, ,
Eric Toman, Associate Professor, Ohio State University
Tom Koontz, Professor of Environmental Policy, UW-Tacoma
Dr. Donna L. Lybecker, , Idaho State University
Rebecca L Warner
John Ruple, Professor of Law (Research), University of Utah
Shane Day
Lauren Anderson
Anna Karmazina, Renewable Energy Development in the American West, Oregon State University
Christean Jenkins
Maya J Hilty
Christopher A Simon, Professor, University of Utah
Kim G Trotter, US Program Director, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
Aerin L Jacob
Robert B Keiter
Jodi A Hilty, President and Chief Scientist, Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative