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Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics edited by Charles Davis

Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics edited by Charles Davis Agriculture and Human Values 15: 95, 1998. Book review Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics chapter by chapter review, in the remainder of this review, edited by Charles Davis I shall focus on the more thought provoking chapters. Boulder/Oxford: Westview Press, 1997, 214 pp. Pb, In chapter 3, Cawley and Freemuth make the interest- ISBN 0 8133 2970 1 ing point that the Multiple Use and Sustained Yield Act of 1960 has “::: simultaneously exacerbated federal land policy arguments and reduced the ability of land managers AMITRAJEET A. BATABYAL to resolve them” (p. 34). The authors go on to argue that Department of Economics, Utah State University, Logan, it “::: is simply not possible to manage a site simultane- UT 84322-3530, USA ously for timber, watershed, wildlife, grazing, recreation, Amitrajeet A. Batabyal is Assistant Professor of Eco- and wilderness” (p. 39). While this is certainly an interest- nomics at Utah State University. His research inter- ing point, unfortunately, the authors do not develop this ests include environmental economics, natural resource point adequately. The same can be said about their use of economics, development economics, and the interface of elementary concepts from game theory. The term “zero- economics with ecology, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Agriculture and Human Values Springer Journals

Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics edited by Charles Davis

Agriculture and Human Values , Volume 15 (1) – Sep 15, 2004

Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics edited by Charles Davis

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Agriculture and Human Values 15: 95, 1998. Book review Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics chapter by chapter review, in the remainder of this review, edited by Charles Davis I shall focus on the more thought provoking chapters. Boulder/Oxford: Westview Press, 1997, 214 pp. Pb, In chapter 3, Cawley and Freemuth make the interest- ISBN 0 8133 2970 1 ing point that the Multiple Use and Sustained Yield Act of 1960 has “::: simultaneously exacerbated federal land policy...
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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 1998 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Subject
Philosophy; Ethics; Agricultural Economics; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; History, general; Evolutionary Biology
ISSN
0889-048X
eISSN
1572-8366
DOI
10.1023/A:1007481502053
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Abstract

Agriculture and Human Values 15: 95, 1998. Book review Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics chapter by chapter review, in the remainder of this review, edited by Charles Davis I shall focus on the more thought provoking chapters. Boulder/Oxford: Westview Press, 1997, 214 pp. Pb, In chapter 3, Cawley and Freemuth make the interest- ISBN 0 8133 2970 1 ing point that the Multiple Use and Sustained Yield Act of 1960 has “::: simultaneously exacerbated federal land policy arguments and reduced the ability of land managers AMITRAJEET A. BATABYAL to resolve them” (p. 34). The authors go on to argue that Department of Economics, Utah State University, Logan, it “::: is simply not possible to manage a site simultane- UT 84322-3530, USA ously for timber, watershed, wildlife, grazing, recreation, Amitrajeet A. Batabyal is Assistant Professor of Eco- and wilderness” (p. 39). While this is certainly an interest- nomics at Utah State University. His research inter- ing point, unfortunately, the authors do not develop this ests include environmental economics, natural resource point adequately. The same can be said about their use of economics, development economics, and the interface of elementary concepts from game theory. The term “zero- economics with ecology,

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