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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... Federal land management in the eleven western states 22 1.3 . The ten major bioregions of California / 25 3.1 . Counties of the Sierra Region / 75 3.2 . Subregions of the Sierra Nevada / 82 3.3 . Gold Country subregion / 85 3.4 . Mother ...
... Federal land management in the eleven western states 22 1.3 . The ten major bioregions of California / 25 3.1 . Counties of the Sierra Region / 75 3.2 . Subregions of the Sierra Nevada / 82 3.3 . Gold Country subregion / 85 3.4 . Mother ...
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... federal government agencies and the effect of private land devel- opment on biodiversity . A more sweeping set of institutional changes in public land and resource management is probably necessary to protect biodiversity , but I defer ...
... federal government agencies and the effect of private land devel- opment on biodiversity . A more sweeping set of institutional changes in public land and resource management is probably necessary to protect biodiversity , but I defer ...
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... federal land in the Sierra Nevada . Approximately 3.3 million acres ( 31 percent ) of the federally owned land have been designated as wilderness by Congress since passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964.6 Today it is the only place in ...
... federal land in the Sierra Nevada . Approximately 3.3 million acres ( 31 percent ) of the federally owned land have been designated as wilderness by Congress since passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964.6 Today it is the only place in ...
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... federal government soon developed the topographic and hydrologic information necessary for large - scale water resources development . The New Deal expanded federal investments in the 1930s , leading to the development of the Central ...
... federal government soon developed the topographic and hydrologic information necessary for large - scale water resources development . The New Deal expanded federal investments in the 1930s , leading to the development of the Central ...
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... ( High Country News 1994b ) . The Sierra Nevada therefore offers an inter- esting laboratory for exploring these conflicts and policy challenges for. MAP 1.2 . Federal land management in the eleven western states . 22 THE RANGE OF LIGHT.
... ( High Country News 1994b ) . The Sierra Nevada therefore offers an inter- esting laboratory for exploring these conflicts and policy challenges for. MAP 1.2 . Federal land management in the eleven western states . 22 THE RANGE OF LIGHT.
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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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