Agriculture and Environmental Policymaking: Issues, Actors and Strategies- State Government Perspective
Year: 1992
Type: article
Abstract: As American society approaches the final years of our twentieth century, major public policy debates continue to rage in both envi-ronmental and agricultural communities. Virtually every facet of the world's resources expands the list of issues, providing more oppor-tunity, either for conflict or consensus. The growing issue list in-cludes: use and management of public lands; rights of private prop-erty owners; conversions of environmentally-sensitive land to agricultural use; loss of biological diversity; access to water supplies; known and potential contamination of water and air quality from ag-ricultural operations; use and production of agricultural chemicals; as well as debates on actual commodities produced, such as interna-tional controversies on tobacco exports and calls for reform of the global livestock industry (Brown, et al., p. 66). Especially in the United States, the actors involved in agricultural and environmental policy have increased substantially during the
Authors: Armstrong-Cummings, Karen, Armstrong-Cummings, Karen
Language: English
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Life on land, Zero hunger
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2222978933