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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... percent privately owned / 395 10.2 . Reduction in habitat area under each of the El Dorado County General Plan alternatives / 398 10.3 . 399 Number of sensitive species potentially affected by habitat type conversion Existing river ...
... percent privately owned / 395 10.2 . Reduction in habitat area under each of the El Dorado County General Plan alternatives / 398 10.3 . 399 Number of sensitive species potentially affected by habitat type conversion Existing river ...
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... percent of California's average annual surface water runoff , 15 but approximately 60 percent of all the water consumed in California originates there.16 The Sierra Nevada is literally the source of life for California . 17 This has not ...
... percent of California's average annual surface water runoff , 15 but approximately 60 percent of all the water consumed in California originates there.16 The Sierra Nevada is literally the source of life for California . 17 This has not ...
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... percent of all land in the states of Montana , Idaho , Wyoming , Colorado , Utah , New Mexico , Arizona , California , Nevada , Oregon , and Washington and 68 percent of Alaska ( totaling about one - third of the entire United States ) ...
... percent of all land in the states of Montana , Idaho , Wyoming , Colorado , Utah , New Mexico , Arizona , California , Nevada , Oregon , and Washington and 68 percent of Alaska ( totaling about one - third of the entire United States ) ...
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... percent from 1970 to 1990. This compares with overall growth of 49 percent for all of California and 22 percent for the entire United States in the same period.29 This rapid population growth boosted the population of the Sierra Region ...
... percent from 1970 to 1990. This compares with overall growth of 49 percent for all of California and 22 percent for the entire United States in the same period.29 This rapid population growth boosted the population of the Sierra Region ...
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... percent of population growth in the Sierra Region from 1970 to 1990 , and those counties each have a significant population of commuters to the greater Sacramento metropolitan area . Expansion of that metropolitan area will tend over ...
... percent of population growth in the Sierra Region from 1970 to 1990 , and those counties each have a significant population of commuters to the greater Sacramento metropolitan area . Expansion of that metropolitan area will tend over ...
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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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