Overview
- Documents the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agency
- Identifies the conditions under which hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Rocky Mountain West triggered a political conflict between ranching and energy stakeholder groups
- Analyzes the BLM's current land-use policies in the context of a system dominated by energy development interests
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Chapter 1 introduces readers to the case study at hand, and reviews literature on public land agencies and policies. Chapter 2 summarizes thelegal history of public land management by the federal government, and the conditions that caused the BLM to favor energy development over ranching in the mid-2000's. Chapter 3 details the role of the Executive Branch (Bush-Cheney administration) in affecting the BLM's domestic energy policies and resource allocation, and chapter 4 analyzes the role of subgovernments in affecting the BLM's motivations too. Chapters 5, 6 and 7 contain first-hand accounts from government officials, state petroleum associations, and ranching supported interest groups to explore the concept of subgovernment stakeholder domination in policymaking, and analyze the similarities and differences between different policy-making elites. Chapter 8 concludes the text by summarizing subgovernment theory, mapping the behaviors of subgovernment actors, and discussing the implications for future political appointees in the direction of land-management agencies like the BLM.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Robert Forbis is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University. He received his B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin (1990); and received his Masters of Public Administration (2004) and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Utah (2010). His research interests primarily concern Environmental Politics and Policy with emphasis on the policy nexus of environmental protection and energy development. His research specifically addresses political conflicts triggered by the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) energy resource development process. He teaches courses on Public Lands and Resource Management, Sustainability, Energy and Environmental Policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Altered Policy Landscapes
Book Subtitle: Fracking, Grazing, and the Bureau of Land Management
Authors: Robert E. Forbis Jr.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04774-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04773-3Published: 21 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04774-0Published: 31 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 172
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Management, Environmental Policy, Hydrogeology, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Natural Resource and Energy Economics