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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... associated with increased population ) . The context for resolving land and resource management conflicts has therefore changed radically over the past three decades . All of this is occurring at a time of rapid and perhaps ...
... associated with increased population ) . The context for resolving land and resource management conflicts has therefore changed radically over the past three decades . All of this is occurring at a time of rapid and perhaps ...
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... associated with their upstream migration influenced pat- terns of Native American resource use along the Columbia River . Moreover , modern industrial society has organized itself there in very specific ways in order primarily to ...
... associated with their upstream migration influenced pat- terns of Native American resource use along the Columbia River . Moreover , modern industrial society has organized itself there in very specific ways in order primarily to ...
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... associated with this transformation . What is driving population growth in the rural West ? Here I draw on a rich lit- erature on the phenomenon , produced by researchers who have been studying it at a variety of scales over the past ...
... associated with this transformation . What is driving population growth in the rural West ? Here I draw on a rich lit- erature on the phenomenon , produced by researchers who have been studying it at a variety of scales over the past ...
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... associated with these latter two groups ( who generate their income and wealth from activities outside the region ) have become important sources of employment for local residents . Finally , a small but potentially significant group of ...
... associated with these latter two groups ( who generate their income and wealth from activities outside the region ) have become important sources of employment for local residents . Finally , a small but potentially significant group of ...
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... associated with land as a commodity ( exchange values ) contrast with the broader role of specific places as socially situated contexts for a variety of other life func- tions ( use values ) .2 They also argue that land is “ a special ...
... associated with land as a commodity ( exchange values ) contrast with the broader role of specific places as socially situated contexts for a variety of other life func- tions ( use values ) .2 They also argue that land is “ a special ...
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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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