Plundered Promise
Subtitle: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: March 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781559638487
Subjects: Globalization; Management of land & natural resources; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Public Policy - General; Management; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; United States; Nature; Politics / Current Events; Nature/Ecology; Western & Pacific Coast states; Natural Resources; Economic History; Political Science / Public Policy; Public lands; Land Use; Capitalism; Corporations; History
First sentence: The existence of the federal lands today is a legacy of European traditions and institutions of land tenure.
Description: "Subsidized liquidation of old-growth forests. Grazing rights leased at below-market rates. Mineral resources extracted with trifling royalty payments, or none at all. Water developments built with interest-free loans.".

"These and other actions serve private interests extremely well but inflict massive costs on society at large. They are but the most visible signs of the fundamental flaws in the current system of federal lands management. In Plundered Promise, leading resource management scholar Richard W.

Behan presents a thought-provoking history and analysis of public lands management in the United States, as he describes how we arrived at the current situation and examines what we can do to rectify it."--BOOK JACKET.