Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acronyms -- Preface and Acknowledgments to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments to the First Edition -- 1. Natural Resource Use-Interactions: the Key to Modern Public Land Management -- 2. Laws and Agencies Governing Federal Land Management -- 3. Economic Rationale for Continued Government Ownership of Land -- 4. Criteria and Decision Techniques for Public Land Management -- 5. Roles and Uses of Models and GIS Mapping in Natural Resource Management
6. Applying Economic Efficiency Analysis in Practice: Principles of Benefit-Cost Analysis7. Regional Economic Analysis and Input-Output Models -- 8. Principles of Multiple-Use Management -- 9. Multiple-Use Planning and Ecosystem Management in the National Forests -- 10. Multiple-Use Planning in the Bureau of Land Management -- 11. Wildlife Planning and Management in U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service -- 12. National Park Service -- 13. The Movement Toward Ecosystem Planning and Management -- References -- Index
Summary
Integrated Public Lands Management is the only book that deals with the management procedures of all the primary public land management agencies National Forests, Parks, Wildlife Refuges, and the Bureau of Land Managementin one volume. This book fills the need for a unified treatment of the analytical procedures used by federal land management agencies in planning and managing their diverse lands. The second edition charts the progress these agencies have made toward the management of their lands as ecosystems. It includes new U.S. Forest Service regulations, expanded coverage of Geographic I
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-589) and index
