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Sisneros, Chris. "Understanding Westerners' Relationship with Public Lands and Federal Land Managers Through Attachment to Public Lands." DigitalCommons@USU, 2015. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4534.
Full textKruse, Michael. "This Land Is Our Land| A Public Lands Oral History." Thesis, Prescott College, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10247764.
Full textThere are over 650 million acres of federal public lands in the United States that allow access to nature. Public lands are utilized for a variety of different activities, ranging from preservation to resource extraction. Regardless of proximity, public lands belong to everyone in the United Sates. From January to August 2016, I opportunistically and purposively collected sixteen interviews in Arizona, a state with 38.5% federal public lands, and sixteen in Texas (1.5% federal public lands), to document attitudes, opinions, and ideas about public lands in the United States. Conducting such interviews provides insight into the many different perspectives that people from different areas and backgrounds have about public land, and also acts as a medium for outreach and education. Although the data collected is not representative, it exemplifies different opinions that exist in regards to public land. Opinions such as these can affect management policy and inform how people advocate for public lands now and in the future. I attempted to capture candid responses from the interviewees utilizing an open-ended interview guide to elicit the interviewee’s emotions, reactions, attitudes, and opinions towards public lands. All interviewees appreciated access to nature through public lands regardless of their experience with or knowledge about them. Most interviewees were familiar with national parks, but not all knew about national forests, national wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, or the national system of public lands. Several themes emerged, including issues of access, extractive industries such as grazing and mining, and discussions of federal versus state management.
Cahill, Kerri Lynn. "Exploring the Structure and Development of Management Prescriptions for Public Lands." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/11055.
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Briggs, Rebecca S. "Oregon's agricultural lands preservation policy : an analysis of effectiveness in the Willamette Valley /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/9129.
Full textHolladay, David R. "Opporunities for coordinated road management on public lands for purposes of ecosystem management : the case of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem /." This resource online, 1991. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-03142009-040646/.
Full textStull, Lauren Blair. "The Equal Access to Justice Act and Federal Land Management: Incentives to Litigate?" Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43910.
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Austin, Eric Keller. "The Social Bond and Place: A Study of How the Bureau of Land Management Contributes to Civil Society." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30056.
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Holladay, David R. "Opportunities for coordinated road management on public lands for purposes of ecosystem management: the case of the greater Yellowstone ecosystem." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/41613.
Full textThe study first reviews current literature about ecosystems, ecosystem management goals, benefits and the application of the concept to Greater Yellowstone. Issues of forest road management are also examined.
The study then turns to a critique of current road
management efforts in six National Forests of northwest
Wyoming, southwest Montana and eastern Idaho; which are
considered part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Comparisons of road management planning and policy will be
made primarily through examination of forest plans and
engineering policies, and through personal communication
with forest highway engineers and transportation planners.
Recommendations for improving coordination of forest road
management follow the critique.
Master of Urban and Regional Planning
Milholland, Sharon. "Native Voices and Native Values in Sacred Landscapes Management: Bridging the Indigenous Values Gap on Public Lands Through Co-Management Policy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194070.
Full textDanyo, Stephen John. "Trail-use conflict on public lands among selected user groups : towards a framework for managing appropriate activities." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/29524.
Full textSurvant, Cerinda. "(Re)Presenting Peoples and Storied Lands| Public Presentation of Archaeology and Representation of Native Americans in Selected Western U.S. Protected Areas." Thesis, Portland State University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10142123.
Full textEvery year, hundreds of thousands of people visit the Native American ancestral lands in the western United States developed for tourism and recreation. The stewards of these lands seek to engage visitors and enrich their experience, and simultaneously to protect the lands’ natural and cultural resources. To achieve their mission, protected areas regularly use interpretation —materials and experiences that aim to educate visitors about resources and see them as personally meaningful. However, there is little literature on interpretive content in protected areas, few qualitative studies of interpretation as constructed by visitors and interpreters, and little literature on the representation of Native Americans in museums and protected areas.
I consider the public presentation of archaeology at exemplary protected areas in the U.S. Southwest and Great Basin within a theoretical framework of governmentality and representation. Within a mixed-method research design, this project used participant-observation at thirteen protected area locales to identify interpretive content and representational strategies, and semi-structured interviews with 31 individuals to elicit staff and visitors’ understandings of interpretation and display. This research found three types of narratives in the interpretation sampled—scientific narratives, cultural narratives, and management messages. In general, scientific narratives appeared more frequently than cultural narratives and both appeared more frequently than management messages. Archaeology dominated scientific narratives, cultural continuity dominated cultural narratives, and orientation dominated management messages. In general, archaeology appeared with greater relative frequency than any other component of interpretive content. This study also found that interpretation predominantly adopted a third-person omniscient point of view and represented people predominantly in the ancient past.
This study has both academic and applied outcomes. The work aims to contribute to the scant body of literature on interpretive content in protected areas stewarding natural and cultural resources, the few qualitative studies of interpretation as constructed by visitors and interpreters, and the existing literature on the representation of Native Americans in museums and protected areas as well as informing future interpretive practice. These findings inform a report on contemporary interpretive practice and recommendations for the public presentation of archaeology delivered to the US Fish and Wildlife Service in December 2013.
Predmore, Stephen Andrew. "Ecosystem Management in the USDA Forest Service: A Discourse Analysis." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/37556.
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Pashibin, Tate. "Environmental Perceptions of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, 1961-1971." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1554241158057854.
Full textBanis, David. "The Wilderness Problem: A Narrative of Contested Landscapes in San Juan County, Utah." PDXScholar, 2004. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1972.
Full textLopes, Thaís Fernanda. "Gestão das terras públicas federais no Litoral Norte de São Paulo : atores, escalas e intersetorialidade." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFABC, 2014.
Find full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Planejamento e Gestão do Território, 2014.
Esta pesquisa apresenta um mapeamento das principais políticas públicas e das relações dos seus respectivos atores governamentais aplicadas às terras públicas federais no Litoral Norte de São Paulo. O objetivo é identificar os principais pontos de conflitos na gestão desses espaços e as dificuldades intersetoriais e intergovernamentais, bem como o entendimento sobre as escalas de poder. Frente a estas questões, a pesquisa elabora algumas hipóteses que podem contribuir para a compreensão das atuais formas de uso e ocupação do solo nos espaços litorâneos.
This research presents a mapping of the main public policies and relations of their respective governmental actors applied to federal public lands in the North Coast of São Paulo. The objective is to identify the main points of conflict in the management of these spaces and intersectoral and intergovernmental difficulties as well as the understanding of the scales of power. From these questions, the research draws some hypotheses that may contribute to the understanding of the current forms of use and occupation of land in the coastal areas.
Anich, Vanessa F., and n/a. "Iwi management plans and consultation under the Resource Management Act 1991." University of Otago. Department of Geography, 1995. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070531.125119.
Full textPudasaini, Madhu Sudan. "Erosion modelling under different land use management practices." View thesis, 2003. http://library.uws.edu.au/adt-NUWS/public/adt-NUWS20040401.140345/index.html.
Full textEagles, Emma E. "Land contamination incidents : management responses from a public health perspective." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250855.
Full text何明俊 and Mingjun He. "Market versus government in land use planning & development in China in the transition to socialist market economy: a case study of Suzhou city." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31259649.
Full textCalhoun, Corinne. "Public Land and Its Management: Why the Research Is Not Enough." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2013. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/75.
Full textHazell, Peter, and n/a. "Community title or community chaos : environmental management, community development and governance in rural residential developments established under community title." University of Canberra. Resource, Environment and Heritage Science, 2002. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050415.124034.
Full textButler, Michael James Richard. "The rise and rise of the new public management." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2000. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36395/.
Full textHanham, Susan Janette, and n/a. "�Where land meets water� : rights to the foreshore of Otakou Maori Reserve." University of Otago. Department of Surveying, 1996. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20070530.153901.
Full textMoote, Margaret Ann 1965. "Changing models of administrative decision-making: Public participation in public land planning." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278479.
Full textDesta, Naomi I. (Naomi Iskindir). "Land management reform in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia : implmentating a public leasehold system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65698.
Full textStyczynski, Ashley R. "Sociodemographic Correlates of Public Land Use and Management Preferences Among Utah Residents." DigitalCommons@USU, 2011. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/1151.
Full textKelly, Dana, and d. kelly@uq edu au. "Power and participation: participatory resource management in south-west Queensland." The Australian National University. Faculty of Science, 2005. http://thesis.anu.edu.au./public/adt-ANU20060912.165641.
Full textKelly, Dana. "Power and participation : participatory resource management in south-west Queensland /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses Program, 2005. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20060912.165641/index.html.
Full textAdepoyibi, A. C., and n/a. "Djungayin, Bungawa or Mr Chairman : analysis of management in a remote aboriginal community council in east Arnhem land." University of Canberra. Administrative Studies, 1988. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060529.122940.
Full textOkafor, Uzochukwu Godsway Ojo. "Computer-assisted analysis of Namibian land reform policy." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2982.
Full textThe focus of this research is on the analysis of Namibian land reform policy. The primary objective is to identify the prevailing values behind the land reform, formulate precise objectives that reflect the inherent values, and analyse the existing options with a view to identifying the delivery mechanism(s) most appropriate to meeting the land reform objectives and to delivering the desired outcomes in a sustainable way. Namibia inherited skewed land ownership. The land reform debate focuses mainly on the redistribution of commercial farms, which are mostly owned by whites, and the tenure reform in the communal areas. The Namibian land reform rests on a tripartite scheme: Resettlement, Affirmative Action Loan Scheme (AALS) and the Development of Communal Areas (DCA). These approaches are governed by a number of policies and laws. Land reform is a very complex and emotion-laden phenomenon with multiple dimensions, which include moral, historical, social, economic, environmental and technical aspects. The land question in Namibia is a race question. While politicians argue publicly that land reform is important to boost the economy and reduce poverty, in reality the focus is on having more black Namibians own more of Namibia’s commercial farmland. This discrepancy between public pronouncements and actual motive may be responsible for the lack of clear objectives for the land reform policy. The analysis of Namibian land reform policy will require formulation of precise objectives. Because Namibia is the driest country south of the Sahara, sustainable management of land is imperative. Finding ways of achieving a politically acceptable racial balance of commercial land ownership and sustainable utilisation of redistributed land within an optimum time span is a challenge. The formulation of Namibian land reform policy was not preceded by any attempt at prior policy analysis. An ad hoc and crisis-management approach prevailed. A policy issue analysis approach has been used in this study. It is based primarily on a literature review augmented with questionnaires and interviews with selected key stakeholders. A stratified sampling technique was applied in the selection of the key stakeholders. The three groups identified were the policy-formulation and implementation group, the commercial farmers and the emerging farmers. VISA, a multi-criteria decision analysis package, was used to analyse and compare the three land reform approaches, while PolicyMaker software was used to analyse political actors and suggest strategies that can enhance the policy’s feasibility. The literature review and questionnaires revealed that the objectives of the land reform policy include correcting the skewed ownership of commercial farmland to reflect the demography of Namibia, alleviating poverty and achieving social and economic equity for all citizens. The programme should be sociologically, economically and environmentally sustainable. Combining all these objectives as criteria for evaluation, VISA demonstrates that the affirmative action loan scheme has the greatest potential for meeting the objectives followed by resettlement and development of communal areas respectively. Using the PolicyMaker software, stakeholders were categorised into supporters, opponents and non-mobilised; opportunities and obstacles were identified and strategies devised to harness opportunities and diffuse opposition.
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Yoder, Jon. "Wildlife on private land : contracting over wildlife-inflicted property damage and abatement /." Raleigh, NC : North Carolina State University, 1999. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/etd/public/etd-46531063992951/etd.pdf.
Full textEltahir, Susan. "The management of food-producing trees in the public places of metropolitan Adelaide /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ENV/09enve51.pdf.
Full textGourlay, Robert C., and n/a. "Environmental assessment for land use management : the development and application of environmental assessment methods and techniques at the Singleton Training Area (STA)- Army." University of Canberra. Resource, Environmental & Heritage Sciences, 1997. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061113.153454.
Full textRachman, Seaful, and n/a. "Infiltration under different landuse types at the Upper Ciliwung watershed of West Java, Indonesia." University of Canberra. School of Resource, Environmental and Heritage Sciences, 1992. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20041215.124610.
Full textJay, Grace Mairi McIntyre. "Symbolic order and material agency a cultural ecology of native forest remnants on Waikato dairy farms /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://adt.waikato.ac.nz/public/adt-uow20060125.120921/.
Full textCook, John Stanley. "A cybernetic approach to land management issues." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1994. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36222/2/John_Cook_Thesis.pdf.
Full textZhang, Wendong. "Three Essays on Land Use, Land Management, and Land Values in the Agro-Ecosystem." The Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437656707.
Full textGootee, Roje Stanis. "Merging public and private domains implications for the design and implementation of natural resource policy /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2009. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2009/r_gootee_031109.pdf.
Full textHudnor, Amy Claire. "Economic Approaches to Public and Private Land Conservation in the United States." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2007. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/HudnorAC2007.pdf.
Full textRichert, David. "Public Understandings of Environmental Quality: A Case Study of Private Forest Land Management in Southwest Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31962.
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Porter, Emma Marie. "Riparian management: investigating public perception and the effect of land-use, groundcover and rainfall on sediment retention." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Biological Sciences, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9939.
Full textHunt, John W. "Monitoring and resource management : streams, land cover, and the use of water quality information in public policy /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2009. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.
Full textRodriguez, Fabian Francisco. "Local resolution for watershed management: the case of water and land allocation of Cotacachi, Ecuador." The Ohio State University, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1058798180.
Full textMadhanpall, Anwhar. "An evaluation of a public-private partnership as an alternative delivery mechanism to enable the effective redistribution of land in KwaZulu-Natal : the case of Inkezo Land Company." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2503.
Full textThe dawn of a democratic South Africa in 1994 was seen as the beginning of a new era in South Africa. Land Reform, as a matter of moral reconciliation, and within the context of rural development, was high on the agenda to be addressed by the new democratic ANC-led government. Although South Africa’s history of systematic racial land dispossession is not unique; the extent of the dispossession, and racial nature of the dispossession gave a uniqueness to South Africa’s land history. In 1994 the racially skewed land ownership pattern reflected that 55 000 white commercial farmers owned 87 per cent of the land, yet the African majority of had access to 13 per cent of the marginal land. The land reform imperative was restricted in approach by the compromise reached during the negotiations resulting in a transitional government for South Africa. In addition, the early 1990’s, was a period of increasing dominance of the neo-liberal ideology with its minimal state and minimal state intervention, and reliance on the free market principles informing interventions and programmes. The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa enshrined private property rights protection; and whilst given recognition to the requirement of land reform it enshrined a market-led approach with enabling legislation and policy statements such as a “willing-buyer/willing-seller” requirements for redistribution and market related prices for land acquisition. The Department of Land Affairs, a national government department, was tasked with the development and implementation of land redistribution. Therefore, despite the neo-liberal principles informing land reform, a state-led approach towards the actual implementation was embarked upon. In 1998 a target was set to be achieved within 5 years; which the Department failed dismally to reach. The target was then extended to be reached by 2014, and the thesis predicts that unless the delivery mechanism currently utilised for land redistribution is changed the target will not be reached by 2014. The New Public Management paradigm, and various alternative delivery mechanisms have been considered, in addition to assessing the delivery mechanisms and approaches towards land reform in Brazil and the Philippines in an attempt to identify suitable delivery mechanisms for land reform in South Africa to enable it to achieve its target and objectives. A detailed evaluation of an existing Public-Private Partnership, which exists to implement land redistribution was undertaken in terms of primary data collection and secondary data statistics. The evaluation assessed whether this delivery mechanism will enable targets to be met and land redistribution objectives in relation to rural development be achieved. The thesis argues that the Public-Private Partnerships alternative delivery mechanism is a suitable vehicle to delivery land redistribution across agriculture commodities, with key recommendations on matters to address within the PPP mechanism. For land reform to be implemented at the required scale and to achieve its developmental objectives innovation is required within partnership approaches and not a traditional bureaucratic-led approach.
Mainville, Daniel Mark, and daniel mainville@dse vic gov au. "The Impacts of Agriculture and Plantation Forestry in a Selection of Upper Catchments of the Strzelecki Ranges, Victoria." RMIT University. Civil, Environmental and Chemical Engineering, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080509.162820.
Full textCavill, Jacqueline. "Application of a land use planning decision support tool in a public participatory process for sustainable forest management." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/333.
Full textMealor, Rachel D. "Exurban landowners in Wyoming their land management and how they are perceived by natural resource advisors /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1402175921&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textHoaes, Ingrid Emmy. "Does post-settlement support play a role in the success of land reform? : the case of resettlement beneficiaries in Namibia." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/4093.
Full textENGLISH ABSTRACT: The research deals with post-settlement support in Namibia‟s land reform process. Post-settlement support (PSS) is seen as vital and critical in all land and agrarian reform processes, as can be told from experiences worldwide. Its absence or presence can have a number of consequences or successes in the whole process. PSS can be viewed as the “after care” to be provided by government to new farmers after resettling them. It could be in the form of financial support, extension services and maintenance of infrastructure as well as training services for the farmers. The paper deals with the current status of post-settlement support in the country for land a reform beneficiary, who provides PSS, if it is provided and how it is done. It further looks at perceptions and practices about land reform, in some regions of the world as well as in Namibia. The methodology used was through extensive literature review of policy documents, interviews with different stakeholders and two case studies, looking at beneficiaries of the land reform, specifically the national land resettlement programme beneficiaries. The paper found that there is definitely a link between the poor productivity and lack of PSS in Namibia‟s land reform process. PSS is not consistent; it is selected or sometimes randomly carried out. Most of the PSS programmes currently provided is not initiated by government but by donor agencies and Non-governmental organisations. There is no coordination between the different stakeholders such as the line ministries. The paper illustrates that choosing the correct beneficiaries of the land reform process is vital in achieving sustainable, land use and management, as well as equitable land redistribution in an arid Namibia.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie navorsing handel oor ondersteuning wat hervestigde boere ontvang na vestiging. Die ondersteuning aan hervestigdes is krities en belangrik in alle fasette van grond en landbou hervormings prosesse. Die huidige wêreld verleen groot steun aan hierdie gevolgtrekking. Daarvoor hou die toepasing oftewel nie-toepasing van na-hervestigings ondersteuning groot risiko vir die sukses van die hele hervestigings proses. Hierdie tipe ondersteuning vir hervestigdes kan as 'n noodsaaklike na diens wat die staat kan lewer aan die nuwe grond eienaars. Sulke ondersteuning deur die staat kan verskeie vorms inneem. Dit kan geskied deur finansielle hulp oftewel landbou dienste wat ook die instandhouding van plaas infrastruktuur kan behels. In hierdie navorsing kyk ons na opvattings rakende hervestigings ondersteuining soos ervaar deur die hervestigdes. Die navorsing is gebaseer op literatuur van reg-oor die wereld aangaande hierdie vraag stuk. Ons het ook onderhoude gevoer met verskillende belanghebbendes met twee gevalle studies wat handel oor die ervarringe van hervestigdes. Die navorsing vind dat daar 'n definitiewe verband tussen swak produksie opbrengste en na-hervestiging ondersteuning is. Ons vind dat hierdie tipe ondersteuning ad hoc is met baie min koordinering deur die staat masjienery. Ons vind dat dit op die lange duur belangrik is om die regte mense te selekteer vir hervestiging programme, veral as in ag geneem word dat Namibie 'n taamlike droë land is.
Moore, Charity Maria Troyer. "Formal Land Rights, Plot Management, and Income Diversification in Tigray Region, Ethiopia." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1330537872.
Full textByrd, Lawrence Allen. "The public land manager in collaborative conservation planing: a comparative analysis of three case studies in Montana." Diss., [Missoula, Mont.] : The University of Montana, 2009. http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-06122009-134838.
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