Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing WestUniversity of California Press, 30. 6. 1999. - 623 страница The rural west is at a crossroads, and the Sierra Nevada is at the center of this social and economic change. The Sierra Nevada landscape has always been valued for its bounty of natural resource commodities, but new residents and an ever-growing flood of tourists to the area have transformed the relationship between the region's nature and its culture. In an engaging narrative that melds the personal with the professional, Timothy P. Duane—who grew up in the area—documents the impact of rapid population growth on the culture, economy, and ecology of the Sierra Nevada since the late 1960s. He also recommends innovative policies for mitigating the negative effects of future population growth in this spectacular but threatened region, as well as throughout the rural west. Today, the primary social and economic values of the Sierra Nevada landscape are in the amenities and ecological services provided by its wildlands and functioning ecosystems. Duane shows how further unfettered population growth threatens the very values which have made the Sierra Nevada a desirable place to live and work. A new approach to land use planning, resource management, and local economic development—one that recognizes the emerging values of the landscape—is necessary in order to achieve sustainable development, Duane claims. Weaving personal experience with outstanding scholarship, he shows how such an approach must explicitly recognize the importance of values and the application of an environmental land ethic to future development in the area. |
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... activities on local economic well- being . I am therefore attempting to confront directly some of what Ed Marston has called " the warts on the West's service economy " ( 1996c ) . I agree with Power that population growth and economic ...
... activities on local economic well- being . I am therefore attempting to confront directly some of what Ed Marston has called " the warts on the West's service economy " ( 1996c ) . I agree with Power that population growth and economic ...
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... factor in both the determination of the types of , and the distribution of , activities pursued by humans in the range . From gold mining to water resources diversions , the geology and topography of the Sierra are 14 THE RANGE OF LIGHT.
... factor in both the determination of the types of , and the distribution of , activities pursued by humans in the range . From gold mining to water resources diversions , the geology and topography of the Sierra are 14 THE RANGE OF LIGHT.
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... activities , particularly timber harvesting . Both of these fears were linked to the establishment in September 1991 of the innovative California Executive Council on Biodiversity , which brought state and federal land and resource ...
... activities , particularly timber harvesting . Both of these fears were linked to the establishment in September 1991 of the innovative California Executive Council on Biodiversity , which brought state and federal land and resource ...
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... activities : logging , mining , recreation , and tourism have been supplemented by retirees and commuters to metropolitan regions . Many members of the latter two groups have located in the Sierra Nevada primarily for " quality of life ...
... activities : logging , mining , recreation , and tourism have been supplemented by retirees and commuters to metropolitan regions . Many members of the latter two groups have located in the Sierra Nevada primarily for " quality of life ...
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... activities because of their effect on habitat . Ironically , these restrictions made the owl eco- nomically the most important species in Oregon or Washington : timber produc- tion throughout the region hinged on the fate of the owl ...
... activities because of their effect on habitat . Ironically , these restrictions made the owl eco- nomically the most important species in Oregon or Washington : timber produc- tion throughout the region hinged on the fate of the owl ...
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3 The Exodus to Exurbia | 73 |
4 Economics and the Environment | 122 |
5 Ecotransformation and Amenity Values | 159 |
6 The Fragmented Landscape | 195 |
7 Politics and Property | 251 |
8 Managing Exurban Growth | 296 |
9 Planning and Politics | 337 |
10 Habitats and Humanity | 386 |
11 Reinhabiting the West | 425 |
Notes | 471 |
Bibliography | 505 |
Index | 567 |
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