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Author Culhane, Paul J

Title Public Lands Politics : Interest Group Influence on the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (417 pages)
Series RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation Set
RFF Forests, Lands, and Recreation Set
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface; I. INTRODUCTION; 1. The Public Lands and the Clash of Conflicting Interests; Philosophies of Natural Resource Management; Modern Issues in Public Lands Management; Interest Group Theory and Public Lands Policy; Plan of the Book; Notes; II. THE NATIONAL CONTEXT/AGENCY HISTORIES AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESSES; 2. The Forest Service; The Federal Lands; The Origins of the Forest Service; Forest Service Organization and Management; Notes; 3. The Bureau of Land Management; History of the BLM; Formal Organization of the Bureau of Land Management
Notes4. Multiple-Use Management Procedures; Timber Management; Grazing Management; Wildlife Management; Recreation Management; Wilderness Management; Minerals Management; Special Uses; The Multiple-Use Philosophy-Tools and Constraints; Conclusions; Notes; III. GROUP INFLUENCE AND LOCAL PUBLIC LANDS MANAGEMENT; 5. Local Land Management/The Actors; The Study Sample; Local Land Managers; Interest Group Affiliations; Industry User Groups; Nonindustry Interests; Group Attitudes About Public Lands Issues; Summary; Notes; 6. Rangers' and Area Managers' Constituencies
Local Administrators' Group ContactsDifferences in Organization-Sets; Conclusion-Local Constituencies and the Capture Thesis -- Notes; 7. The Nature of Group Influence/Participants' Views; The Rise of Environmental Influences on Local Land Management; Constituency Management-Administrators' Reactions to Environmentalism; The Consequences of Constituency Management; Conclusions-Group Influence and Conformity; Notes; 8. Public Participation; The Scope of Public Participation; New Public Participation Styles; Special Cases of Participation-The Grazing Associations and Advisory Boards
ConclusionsNotes; 9. The Style of Local Public Lands Policymaking; The Locus of Decision Making; The Focus of Pressure Politics; Decision-Making Mechanisms; Conclusion; Notes; 10. Interest Group Influence and Use Allocation Policies; A Concise Model of Group Influence; Group Influence on Policy Output Levels; Relative Influence of Groups and Administrators; Conclusions-The Group Influence Model and Its Implications; Notes; IV. CONCLUSIONS; 11. Conformity, Capture, Multiple Clientelism, and Multiple Use; The Capture-Conformity Debate; Professionalism and Conformity; Capture and Clientelism
Multiple Clientelism and the Public InterestNotes; APPENDIXES; A. Data-Gathering Methodology; B. The Unidimensionality of Public Lands Attitudes; C. The Group Influence Model/Technical Aspects; Index
Summary First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135990787
1135990786