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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... timber versus tourism industries in Nevada County , 1981-93 / 181 Gross taxable revenues for public versus private timber harvest in Nevada County , 1981-93 / 182 Net tax revenues paid to Nevada County for public versus private timber ...
... timber versus tourism industries in Nevada County , 1981-93 / 181 Gross taxable revenues for public versus private timber harvest in Nevada County , 1981-93 / 182 Net tax revenues paid to Nevada County for public versus private timber ...
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... Timber Production Zone TRPA Tahoe Regional Planning Agency UC UGB USFS WHR University of California Urban Growth Boundary United States Forest Service , U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife - Habitat Relationships model YWI Yuba ...
... Timber Production Zone TRPA Tahoe Regional Planning Agency UC UGB USFS WHR University of California Urban Growth Boundary United States Forest Service , U.S. Department of Agriculture Wildlife - Habitat Relationships model YWI Yuba ...
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... timber , placing pressures on forest resources whose effects can still be seen today . Discovery of silver in the nearby Comstock Lode of Nevada in 1859 created additional pressure , eventually leading to the nearly com- plete ...
... timber , placing pressures on forest resources whose effects can still be seen today . Discovery of silver in the nearby Comstock Lode of Nevada in 1859 created additional pressure , eventually leading to the nearly com- plete ...
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... timber workers from United Forest Families gained access by protesting outside the meeting place at Fallen Leaf Lake in the snow . Complaints about limited access then led to a series of regional pub- lic workshops during the spring of ...
... timber workers from United Forest Families gained access by protesting outside the meeting place at Fallen Leaf Lake in the snow . Complaints about limited access then led to a series of regional pub- lic workshops during the spring of ...
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... timber or mineral extraction for their economic livelihood , but they are geographically concentrated in a few subregions of the Sierra Nevada . Other areas have developed strong economic dependence on tourism and recreation , which ...
... timber or mineral extraction for their economic livelihood , but they are geographically concentrated in a few subregions of the Sierra Nevada . Other areas have developed strong economic dependence on tourism and recreation , which ...
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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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