Equity implications of the changing institutional landscape in U .S . rangeland conservation
Increasingly, research focusing on ecosystem provisioning is identifying specific benefits of functioning ecosystems to human life, including production of oxygen, carbon sequestration, medicinals, pollinators, and so forth.In addition, research suggests that larger areas have greater capacity for production of multiple ecosystem services.These can include human habitation and use that supports or maintains ecosystem functions.The US has large areas of protected public rangeland whose management.in the public interest has been severely contested since inception.Now considerable effort is going into conserving the large areas of private rangelands,or.working landscapes, that are among the most productive and biodiversity‐ rich U.S.ecosystems.Extensive livestock production has been found compatible with provisioning of a broad spectrum of ecosystem services.The challenge is this : as ecologists, we want to conserve large, intact, functioning ecosystems whenever possible, but as citizens we are concerned that both public and private conservation has contributed to concentration of land ownership and wealth.We ask whether the social and legal institutions underwriting present day private land conservation efforts are capable of protecting the public interest.
conservation easements working landscapes policy accountability
Sally Fairfax Lynn Huntsinger Li Wenjun
Environmental Science,Policy,and Management,137 Mulford Hall MC 3110,University of California,Berkel Department of Environmental Management,Peking University,Beijing 100871,P.R.China
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）