"This book questions how bureaucracies conceive of and consequently interact with nature, suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild, and offers several warnings about bureaucracies and bureaucratic mentality. One prominent challenge facing scientists, policymakers, environmental activists, and environmentally concerned citizens is to recognize human influence in the natural world is pervasive and has a long history, and to act accordingly-or to choose not to act. Western-style management of nature, mediated by economic rationality and state bureaucracies, may not be the best strategy to maintain environmental integrity. The question is what kinds of human influence, conceived of in the widest possible sense, will produce ideal environments for future generations? The related question is who gets to choose. The author approaches the problem of analyzing the mutual influence of human and natural systems from two perspectives: as an objective scholar investigating bureaucracies and natural systems from the outside, and over the last decade as an inside practitioner working in various roles in federal land management agencies developing policies and regulations involved in the control of natural systems. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource management, policy and politics, and professionals working in environmental management roles as well as policymakers involved in public policy and administration"--
This book questions how bureaucracies conceive of, and consequently interact with, nature, and suggests that our managed public landscapes are neither entirely managed nor entirely wild, and offers several warnings about bureaucracies and bureaucratic mentality.
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| Acknowledgements |
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| Introduction: The Wild Garden |
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PART I The Bureaucracy of Nature |
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1 Against Efficiency: Why We Cut Trees (And What Happens When We Do) |
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2 When the Well Runs Dry: Aquifers, Canals, and the Colorado River System |
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3 Atlantic Salmon, Endangered Species, and the Failure of Environmental Policies |
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4 Count Every Fish: Nonmarket Fishing Economies on the Yukon River |
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5 Managing Natural Resources in Alaska: Anthropology Bureaucratized |
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PART II The Nature of Bureaucracy |
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6 Traditional Bureaucratic Knowledge: The Order of Rules |
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7 Bureaucratic Management of Wildlife: Wolves in the State of Alaska |
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10 Traditional Ecological Knowledge |
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David Jenkins has 12 years of experience working in U.S. land management agencies. Prior to that he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bates College and conducted research at the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. His research publications span a range of topics, including myth, social organization, kinship, exchange networks, museums, ethnographic photography, environmental values, endangered species, resource exploitation, subsistence fisheries, autobiography, and the use of mathematical models in anthropology.
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