Altered Policy Landscapes Fracking, Grazing, and the Bureau of Land Management /

• Main Author: Forbis Jr., Robert E. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Environmental management.; Environmental policy.; Hydrogeology.; Environmental law.; Natural resources.; Environmental Management.; Environmental Policy.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.

This book documents the United States Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) shift from a rancher-dominated agency to an energy-dominated agency. This shift is analyzed by identifying the conditions under which the expansion of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) in the Rocky Mountain West triggered a p...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Legal history
• Chapter 3. Executive branch
• Chapter 4. Subgovernments
• Chapter 5. Governance
• Chapter 6. Energy development
• Chapter 7. Ranching
• Chapter 8. Conclusion.