| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 278 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Contents |
Maps of the National Wildlife Refuge System -- Western Half of the Contiguous States and Hawaii -- Eastern Half of the Contiguous States and Caribbean -- Alaska and Pacific Ocean Units -- The Forces Shaping Refuge Management -- Understanding Refuge Resource Management -- What Is the National Wildlife Refuge System? -- Public Land Systems in the United States -- The Crazy-Quilt Refuge System -- The History of the National Wildlife Refuge System -- Early History -- The 1962 Refuge Recreation Act -- The 1966 Refuge Administration Act -- The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 -- The Struggle with Incompatible Uses -- President Clinton's 1996 Executive Order -- The Meaning of Organic Legislation -- The Hallmarks of Modern Organic Legislation -- The National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 -- Purpose Statements -- Sustaining, Restoring, Enhancing Healthy Populations -- Plant Conservation -- Modern Scientific Research Programs -- Habitats, Utilitarianism, and Agency Discretion -- Coordination -- Designated Uses: The Hierarchy -- Conservation as a Dominant Use -- Overview of the Hierarchy of Uses -- The Wildlife-Dependent Recreation Priority -- Nonwildlife-Dependent Uses -- Comprehensive Planning -- Broad-Scale Plans -- Comprehensive Conservation Plans -- Comprehensive Conservation Plan Procedures -- Substantive Management Criteria -- The Compatibility Standard -- Biological Integrity, Diversity, and Environmental Health -- Water Rights -- Biological Monitoring -- Conservation Stewardship |
| Summary |
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the laws and policies governing management of the national wildlife refuges, offering for the first time a practical description and analysis of the management regime outlined in the 1997 National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act. The 1997 act is the first new statute governing a system of federal public lands enacted since the 1970s. The evolution of law governing the refuge system parallels broader trends in public land management and environmental protection, making the refuge system a valuable case study for those interested in environmental management, policy, and law. The book:describes the National Wildlife Refuge System and its legal history; offers a detailed breakdown of the 1997 act, including its purpose, designated uses, comprehensive planning provisions, substantive management criteria, and public participation aspects; considers individual refuges and specific issues that apply to only certain refuges; discusses oil and gas development in refuges; offers observations about how well the refuge system law resolves historic tensions and achieves modern conservation goals. A separate chapter examines the special rules governing refuges in Alaska and considers the contentious debate over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Appendixes offer a reference of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology of the refuge system's development, key statutory provisions (including the full text of the 1997 act), and basic information about each national wildlife refuge. With an approach to conservation that is increasingly prevalent around the world, the National Wildlife Refuge System is an important model for sustainable resource management, and the books analyses of the refuge system's ecological management criteria, conflicts between primary and subsidiary uses, and tension between site-specific standards and uniform national goals all offer important lessons for environmental governance generally |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-262) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Wildlife refuges -- United States.
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Public lands -- United States -- Management
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Conservation of natural resources -- United States.
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NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
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Conservation of natural resources
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Public lands -- Management
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Wildlife refuges
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Management
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Umweltrecht
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Wildreservat
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United States
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003006688 |
| ISBN |
9781597269094 |
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1597269093 |
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