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Preface Introduction: Public Land Policy by Phillip O. Foss Part 1. Ideological Impacts on Policy Outputs Toward an Ideological Synthesis in Public Land Policy: The New Resource Economics by John Baden and Andrew Dana Federal Land Policy: The Conservative Challenge and Environmentalist Response by ...

Preface Introduction: Public Land Policy by Phillip O. Foss Part 1. Ideological Impacts on Policy Outputs Toward an Ideological Synthesis in Public Land Policy: The New Resource Economics by John Baden and Andrew Dana Federal Land Policy: The Conservative Challenge and Environmentalist Response by R. McGreggor Cawley and William Chaloupka Ideology and the Politics of Public Lands by Richard Ganzel Part 2. The Public Lands Subgovernments Multiple Use in the Bureau of Land Management: The Biases of Pluralism Revisited by Richard O. Miller Public Lands Institutions and Their Discontents by John G. Francis Interstate Bargaining over Revenue Sharing and Payments in Lieu of Taxes: Federalism as if States Mattered by Sally K. Fairfax Heading 'Em Off at the Pass: MX and the Public Lands Subgovernment by Paul J. Culhane Part 3. The Politics of Wilderness Preservation Wilderness Protection at What Price? by Charles Davis and Sandra Davis Wilderness Protection as a Bureaucratic Tool by Craig W. Allin Part 4. Public Land Management for the Future Deregulation and Federal Land Management in the 1980s: Inducing Atrophy in Bureaucracy by Michael S. Hamilton The Future of Federal Forest Management: Options for Use of Market Methods by Robert H. Nelson The Polemics and Politics of Federal Land Management by R.W. Behan Bibliography Index

In the United States, private ownership of land is not a new idea, yet the federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges. Managing these properties is expensive and contentious, and few management decisions escape ...

In the United States, private ownership of land is not a new idea, yet the federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges. Managing these properties is expensive and contentious, and few management decisions escape criticism. Some observers, however, argue that such criticism is largely misdirected. The fundamental problem, in their view, is collective ownership and its solution is privatization. A free market, they claim, directs privately owned resources to their most productive uses, and privatizing public lands would create a free market in their services. This timely study critically examines these issues, arguing that there is no sense of "productivity" for which it is true that greater productivity is both desirable and a likely consequence of privatizing public lands or "marketizing" their management. Lehmann's discussion is self-contained, with background chapters on federal lands and management agencies, economics, and ethics, and will interest philosophers as well as public policy analysts.