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Author Stevens, Sharon McKenzie.

Title A place for dialogue : language, land use, and politics in Southern Arizona / Sharon McKenzie Stevens ; foreword by Wayne Franklin
Published Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations
Series American land and life series
American land and life series.
Contents Range of rhetoric -- Open space, conservation, and endangerment -- From battle lines to collaborative space -- Socioecology and the future of the land -- From identity politics to dialogic identities
Summary In A Place for Dialogue, Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona - and by extension the entire arid West - through the lens of political rhetoric. Revealing the socioecological relationships among cattlemen and environmentalists as well as developers and recreationists, she analyzes the ways that language shapes landscape by shaping decisions about land use. Stevens focuses on the collaborative Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan initiated by Pima County, Arizona, the ubiquitous use of scientific ar
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-213) and index
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Subject Land use -- Government policy -- Arizona
Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Arizona
Public lands -- Arizona -- Management
NATURE -- Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Green Business.
NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection.
Land use -- Government policy
Public lands -- Management
Rhetoric -- Political aspects
Arizona
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781587297656
1587297655
Other Titles Place for dialog