The next West : public lands, community, and economy in the American West

Baden, John. (Added Author). Snow, Donald. (Added Author). "Gallatin Institute." (Added Author).

Summary: In The Next West, nearly a dozen leading thinkers and writers offer an insightful vision of the future of the American West. Their essays comprise a cogent matrix of reflections on what has gone wrong in the region, and, as Donald Snow explains in his lively introduction, point the way to a Next West based on "the renewal of Jeffersonian democracy, experiments in local and supra-local control of public lands, and the use of markets to replace the political allocation of natural resources."

Record details

ISBN: 1559634596
ISBN: 9781559634595
ISBN: 155963460X
ISBN: 9781559634601
Physical Description: print
xii, 272 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press, ©1997.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Gallatin Institute."
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Struck with consequence / Stephen Bodio -- New forestry in the next West / Rocky Barker -- The bizarre and unsettling saga of Whitney Benefits: a federal parable / Samuel Western -- Closing the loop / Jim McMahon -- Blood and cotton / Tom Wolf -- The True-Mann's West: endangered and forsaken? / John A. Baden -- Saving the marketplace from the market: one view of the new resource economics / Mark Sagoff -- John Wesley Powell and the unmaking of the West / Karl Hess, Jr. -- Empire or homelands? A revival of Jeffersonian democracy in the American West / Donald Snow -- Is 'libertarian environmentalist' an oxymoron? The crisis of progressive faith and the environmental and libertarian search for a new guiding vision / Robert H. Nelson -- Ideology, wishful thinking, and pragmatic reform: a constructive critique of free-market environmentalism / Thomas Michael Power.