| dc.contributor.author |
Hayes, James |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2014-04-21T20:16:11Z |
|
| dc.date.available |
2014-04-21T20:16:11Z |
|
| dc.date.issued |
2002 |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9314 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
"Livestock grazing in the western United States has been shown to have great ecological and economic costs. Ranching on federal rangelands produces about 2% of the nations livestock and supports about 3% of the nations ranchers. Yet this small group accrues an annual national subsidy amounting to more than their total economic production, while degrading the environmental quality and health of the land. Although much of the western rangeland is federally owned, the management of it has remained, effectively, in private hands. This de facto private control, combined with a large public subsidy, have led to perverse incentives for land management decisions. Western ranchers have a history of abusing public lands and shirking responsibility for their ecological health. They have repeatedly demanded autonomy from the federal government, yet have refused to take administrative responsibility for the land when it has been offered to them. This situation merits serious attention because grazing is a widespread and pervasive land-use on most publicly owned federal lands." |
en_US |
| dc.language |
English |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
livestock |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
grazing--policy |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
governance and politics |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
institutional analysis |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
polycentricity |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
incentives |
en_US |
| dc.subject |
land tenure and use |
en_US |
| dc.title |
Grazing of Federal Public Lands: An Overview of the Institutional Landscape |
en_US |
| dc.type |
Conference Paper |
en_US |
| dc.type.published |
unpublished |
en_US |
| dc.type.methodology |
Case Study |
en_US |
| dc.coverage.region |
North America |
en_US |
| dc.coverage.country |
United States of America |
en_US |
| dc.subject.sector |
Grazing |
en_US |
| dc.subject.sector |
Land Tenure & Use |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationconference |
Institutional Analysis and Development Mini-Conference and TransCoop Meeting |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationconfdates |
December |
en_US |
| dc.identifier.citationconfloc |
Bloomington, Indiana |
en_US |