A Global Environmental Agenda for the United States: Issues for the New U.S. Administration

Kennedy, Donald; Sant, Roger W.

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“…Since most of the land in the region is privately owned (78 percent) and much of it is intensively used for commodity production, there is strong support for the designation of additional conservation lands. Environmental groups are promoting the creation of a large national park in northern Maine and biodiversity reserve systems in New England and the Lake States region (Kennedy and Sant 2000). In recent years, voters in Maine and Michigan approved ballot initiatives providing funding for the acquisition of conservation lands and the federal government has funded land purchases in the region through the Land and Water Conservation Fund.…”

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Does Public Lands Policy Affect Local Wage Growth?

2003

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The effects on wage growth of management practices applied on public lands in the Northern Forest region of the United States are quantified. A central objective is to determine if the management of public lands for preservationist uses results in lower average wages. This is a frequent claim made by critics of land preservation who argue that preservationist management, by prohibiting resource extraction, causes the composition of employment to shift from high-wage jobs in resource-based manufacturing to low-wage jobs in the service sector. A model of simultaneous employment and net migration growth is estimated with data on non-metropolitan counties over the period 1990 to 1999 and applied in a recursive relationship to wage growth. In earlier studies, models of this type have typically been specified in levels. Time-series evidence that supports a preference for growth rates is provided as the form for such models. Exogenous variables in this model include the 1990 shares of the county land base that are publicly owned and managed for preservationist (non-extractive) uses and multiple (including extractive) uses. It was found that wage growth rates are not significantly affected by the shares of land under either management regime. As well, recent declines in national forest timber sales are found to have no effect on wage growth. Copyright 2003 Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky..

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Does Public Lands Policy Affect Local Wage Growth?

2003

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“…The burning of fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) among other factors has resulted in a warming of the atmosphere. This climatic phenomenon has, in the view of many scientists, the potential for dramatic and perhaps catastrophic changes for the planet ranging from rising sea levels and changing agricultural patterns to increasingly severe weather conditions (Kennedy and Sant, 2000;Schneider, 1989;Weisskopf, 1988).…”

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The USA and Global Environmental Policy: Domestic Constraints on Effective Leadership

Sussman¹

2004

International Political Science Review

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During the past three decades, global environmental policy has increased in salience in international politics. What role has the USA, a principal actor in global affairs, played in multilateral efforts to promote environmental protection? What factors might account for US actions regarding progress or problems related to global environmental policy? In order to answer these questions, I examine the role of three principal actors in the US political system, namely, the American president, the Congress, and domestic organized interests. This discussion is followed by three case studies (the Montreal Protocol, the Convention on Global Climate Change, and the Convention on Biodiversity) that show the role of these political actors in shaping US global environmental policy. When the USA provides leadership, it bolsters multilateral efforts to address global environmental problems. When it fails to offer leadership, it weakens that effort. Either way, domestic political factors (rather than interstate relations) play a central role in shaping US global environmental policy.

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Public Conservation Land and Employment Growth in the Northern Forest Region

Lewis¹,

Hunt²,

Plantinga³

2002

Land Economics

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As with many environmental issues, debates about increasing public conservation lands in the Northern Forest region frequently center on a perceived tradeoff between jobs and the environment. In particular, opponents of conservation lands often argue that employment will decline significantly when land is diverted from commodityoriented uses such as wood products production. To evaluate this claim, we estimate a model of simultaneous employment and net migration growth using data on the 92 nonmetropolitan counties comprising the region. Growth in employment and net migration are measured over the period 1990 to 1997 and the set of exogenous variables includes the 1990 share of the county land base in public conservation uses. We find that net migration rates were systematically higher in counties with more conservation lands, but the effects are relatively small. Public conservation lands were found to have no systematic effect on employment growth over the 1990 to 1997 period. Two extensions are considered. We examine the separate effects of preservationist and multiple-use lands. We also identify a "natural experiment" involving changes in national forest management that allows us to estimate the effects of diverting private forestland to public conservation uses. Our central conclusions are that existing public conservation lands have a positive, but small, effect on employment and migration in the Northern Forest region and that, over the range of our data, employment and migration are unlikely to be affected by timber harvest reductions resulting from the establishment of new conservation lands.

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A Global Environmental Agenda for the United States: Issues for the New U.S. Administration

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Does Public Lands Policy Affect Local Wage Growth?

Does Public Lands Policy Affect Local Wage Growth?

The USA and Global Environmental Policy: Domestic Constraints on Effective Leadership

Public Conservation Land and Employment Growth in the Northern Forest Region

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