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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781598840162 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
ISBN: 1598840169 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
remote
1 online resource (xv, 312 p.)
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. ; Denver, Colo. : ABC-CLIO, c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preface -- 1. 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 -- 2. 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 -- 3. Worldwide perspective -- Diamonds and precious metals -- Oil and natural gas development -- Timber and forest destruction -- Water resources and scarcity -- References --