Public Lands and Private Rights - The Failure of Scientific Management

One of the leading experts on public lands and land rights issues, Robert H. Nelson here brings together a collection of his finest essays. Nelson demonstrates that the 'progressive' goal of achieving scientific management of public lands has not been realized; instead, public land management has been dominated by interest group politics and ideology.

About the author

Robert H. Nelson is a professor at the University of Maryland. Originally trained as an economist, he has written widely over the past twenty-five years on the ways in which the "secular" thinking of contemporary economics and the contemporary environmental movement have an underlying Christian content, with books including Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics (1991), Economics as Religion (2001), and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America (2010).

Product details

• Authors: Sally K. Fairfax, Fairfax Sally K., Robert H. Nelson
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.1995
• EAN: 9780847680092
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-8009-2
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 230 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 608 g
• Series: The Political Economy Forum
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Real Estate / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Management of real estate, property & plant, Central government policies, Management of assets: real estate, property and plant