Public Values, Private Lands
Farmland Preservation Policy, 1933-1985
Tim Lehman examines the political battles over public policies to protect farmland from urban sprawl. His detailed account clarifies three larger themes: the ongoing struggle over land use planning in this country, the emerging environmental critique of modern agriculture, and the use of social science expertise in policymaking. Federal efforts to preserve private farmlands began during the New Deal with modest soil conservation and land use initiatives, but stalled with the agricultural surpluses of the postwar decades. Land conservation interests reemerged during the 1970s as productivity plateaus, population growth, and the energy cr…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8078-4491-5
- EAN: 9780807844915
- Produktnummer: 1431138
- Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1995
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 399 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 399
Über den Autor
Tim Lehman is a retired minister who served congregations in the Mennonite Church, USA, for thirty years. He is the author of Seeking the Wilderness: A Spiritual Journey (1993). He lives with his wife in the Northwoods of Minnesota, where he loves to paddle the lakes of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
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