Lexington Books / Political Economic Forum
Pages: 168
Trim: 6½ x 9⅜
978-0-7391-3101-5 • Hardback • March 2009 • $97.00 • (£75.00)
978-0-7391-3102-2 • Paperback • March 2009 • $43.99 • (£34.00)
978-0-7391-3103-9 • eBook • March 2009 • $41.50 • (£32.00)
Holly Lippke Fretwell is fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center. She is also adjunct instructor in the department of agriculture economics and economics at Montana State University.
Chapter 1. History of American Public Lands
Chapter 2. Federal Agencies Lose Money
Chapter 3. Stewardship Problems
Chapter 4. Is No Use Good Use?
Chapter 5. How Much is Enough?
Chapter 6. Understanding Incentives
Chapter 7. Prescriptions for Reform
Recommended.
— CHOICE, January 2010
If any area of government is in great need of 'change' today, it is public land management. It is failing economically and environmentally. Holly Fretwell offers here a valuable diagnosis of public land problems and a set of possible solutions that should be required reading for the Obama administration.
— Robert H. Nelson, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland