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Conflicts over natural resources : a reference handbook

Summary: Includes information on blood diamonds, Bureau of Land Management, diamond mining and trade, environmental movement, forests, grazing policies, Greenpeace, land management, livestock industry, National Park Service, national parks, nonrenewable resources, United Nations, U.S. Forest Service, water, westward expansion, etc.

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ISBN: 9781598840155
ISBN: 1598840150
Physical Description: print
xv, 312 pages ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2007]
Copyright: ©2007

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-292) and index.

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BACKGROUND AND HISTORY -- From the Dawn of History -- Colonial America -- An Overview of Natural Resource Issues and Conflicts -- Acquisition: 1781-1867 -- Disposal: 1781 -- Reservation: 1872 -- Custodial Management: 1897-1950 -- Intensive Management: 1950-1960 -- Consultation and Conflict: 1960- -- References -- PROBLEMS, CONTROVERSIES AND SOLUTIONS -- Minerals, Oil, and Natural Gas Exploration and Drilling -- Supply and Demand -- Extraction and Money -- Damage from Mining Activities -- Oil and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- Protected Areas Policy -- Fee Demonstration Program -- Staffing and Infrastructure Maintenance -- Too Many Protected Areas? -- Rangeland Management -- Regulating the Range -- Subsidization of the Livestock Industry -- Environmental Impacts of Grazing -- Conflict Management on the Range -- Timber and Forests -- Maintaining a Sustainable Supply -- Protecting Old Growth Forests -- Collaboration Efforts -- References -- WORLDWIDE PERSPECTIVE -- Diamonds and Precious Metals -- Oil and Natural Gas Development -- Timber and Forest Destruction -- Water Resources and Scarcity -- References -- CHRONOLOGY -- BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES -- Ansel Adams -- Bruce Babbitt -- David Brower -- Robert Marion Clawson -- Bernard DeVoto -- Wayne Hage -- Julia Hill -- Andy Kerr -- J. Horace McFarland -- Chico Mendes -- Milford Muskett -- Joan Norman -- William Penn -- Sandra Postel -- Ken Saro-Wiwa -- Maurice Strong -- Nicola Temple -- Courtney White -- Terry Tempest Williams -- Howard Zahniser --