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Who owns America? : social conflict over property rights
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- Who Owns America? Land and Resource Tenure Issues in a Changing Environment (1995 : Madison, Wis.)
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- Creator
- edited by Harvey M. Jacobs
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [1998]
- ©1998
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 268 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0585081077, 0299159906, 9780299159948, 0299159949, 9780299159900, 9780585081076
- OCLC
- ocm38527758, ocm44961451
- Includes selected papers from a conference held in 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction. Bonanza! The Unasked Questions: Domestic Land Tenure through International Lenses / Louise Fortmann -- Pt. I. Private Property Rights and the Public Interest. 1. Rousseau's Revenge: The Demise of the Freehold Estate / Daniel W. Bromley. 2. The "Wisdom," but Uncertain Future, of the Wise Use Movement / Harvey M. Jacobs. 3. Private Property Rights with Responsibilities: What Would Thomas Jefferson Say about the "Wise Use" Movement? / Donald Last. 4. Turning NEPA on Its Head: Assessments That Advance Property Rights at the Expense of the Environment / Richard Castelnuovo -- Pt. II. Private Interests in Public Lands. 5. Land Tenure, Land Policy, and the Property Rights Debate / Keith D. Wiebe, Abebayehu Tegene and Betsey Kuhn. 6. Markets and Ethics in U.S. Property Law / Arthur McEvoy. 7. Leaving the Land Behind: Struggles for Land Reform in U.S. Federal Policy, 1933-1965 / Jess Gilbert and Alice O'Connor. 8. Ecosystem Management: Who's Entitled? / Charles C. Geisler and Barbara L. Bedford -- Pt. III. Land, Culture, and Place. 9. Cultural Dimensions of Land Tenure in the United States / Sonya Salamon. 10. Forest Tenure and Cultural Landscapes: Environmental Histories in the Kickapoo Valley / Lynne Heasley and Raymond P. Guries. 11. Land Tenure and Ecosystem Management in Indian Country / Ronald L. Trosper. 12. The Political Economy of Land Tenure: Appalachia and the Southeast / John Gaventa -- Conclusion: Who Owns America? / Harvey M. Jacobs
Subjects
- Land tenure -- United States.
- Land tenure -- Government policy -- United States.
- Right of property -- United States.
- Eminent domain -- United States.
- Public lands -- United States -- Management.
- Land use -- Environmental aspects -- United States.
- Right of property -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Land use -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Natural resources -- United States -- Management.