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In Defense of Public Lands - The Case against Privatization and Transfer (Hardcover)
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In Defense of Public Lands - The Case against Privatization and Transfer (Hardcover)
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Debates continue to rage over the merits or flaws of public land
and whether or not it should be privatized-or at least, radically
reconfigured in some way. In Defense of Public Lands offers a
comprehensive refutation of the market-oriented arguments. Steven
Davis passionately advocates that public land ought to remain
firmly in the public's hands. He reviews empirical data and
theoretical arguments from biological, economic, and political
perspectives in order to build a case for why our public lands are
an invaluable and irreplaceable asset for the American people. In
Defense of Public Lands briefly lays out the history and
characteristics of public lands at the local, state, and federal
levels while examining the numerous policy prescriptions for their
privatization or, in the case of federal lands, transfer. He
considers the dimensions of environmental health; markets and
valuation of public land, the tensions between collective values
and individual preferences, the nature and performance of
bureaucratic management, and the legitimacy of interest groups and
community decision-making. Offering a fair, good faith overview of
the privatizers' best arguments before refuting them, this timely
book contemplates both the immediate and long-term future of our
public lands.
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