"Retooling" for the New West: Environmental NGOs, Planning, and Governance Regimes

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 883-899

  Compas, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

American West; environmental governance; environmental groups; environmental NGOs; Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; planning; regime theory

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAND USE PLANNING; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; PRIVATE LAND;

GALLATIN COUNTY [MONTANA]; GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; MONTANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864022861     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2011.642460     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Agrawal, A., and G. N. Yadama. 1997. How do local institutions mediate market and population pressures on resources? Forest Panchayats in Kumaon. India. Dev. Change 28: 435-465.
2. Anderson, G. 1998. Why smart growth: A primer. Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association.
3. Bartholomew, K. 1999. The evolution of American nongovernmental land use planning organizations. J. Am. Plan. Assoc. 65 (4): 357-363.
4. Bergman, H., and D. Kemmis. 2000. Introduction. In Reclaiming NEPA's potential: Can collaborative processes improve environmental decision making?, ed. O'Connor Center for the Rocky Mountain West and the Institute for Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming, 3-5. Missoula, MT: University of Montana.
5. Brick, P. D., D. Snow, and S. Van de Wetering. 2001. Across the great divide: Explorations in collaborative conservation and the American West. Washington, DC: Island Press.
6. Compas, E. 2008. 'The next best place': private land planning at Yellowstone's periphery. PhD dissertation, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
7. Davies, A. R.2005. Incineration politics and the geographies of waste governance: A burning issue for Ireland?Environ. Plan. C23(3):375-397.
8. Flyvbjerg, B. 2004. Five misunderstandings about case-study research. In Qualitative research practice, ed. C. Seale, G. Gobo, J. F. Gubrium, and D. Silverman, 420-434. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
9. Gallatin County. 2003. Gallatin County growth policy, adopted April 15, 2003. Bozeman, MT: Gallatin County.
10. Gallatin County. 2005. Gallatin County subdivision regulations. Bozeman, MT: Gallatin County.
11. Gevock, N. 2005. Greater stream protection part of proposed regulations. Bozeman Daily Chronicle, January 26. http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2005/01/26/news/revisedsubdivregs.txt (accessed 5 May 2005).
12. Gibbs, D., and A. E. G. Jonas. 2000. Governance and regulation in local environmental policy: The utility of a regime approach. Geoforum 31: 299-313.
13. Gibson, C. C., M. A. McKean, and E. Ostrom. 2000. Explaining deforestation: The role of local institutions. In People and forests: Communities, institutions, and governance, ed. C. C. Gibson, M. A. McKean, and E. Ostrom, 1-26. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
14. Glick, D. 1999. Letter to Gallatin County Commissioners. Gallatin County planning records, Bozeman, MT, January 25.
15. Goodwin, M. 1998. The governance of rural areas: Some emerging research issues and agendas. J. Rural Stud. 14 (1): 5-12.
16. Gottlieb, R. 2005. Forcing the spring: The transformation of the American environmental movement. Washington, DC: Island Press.
17. Graber, E. E. 1974. Newcomers and oldtimers: Growth and change in a mountain town. Rural Sociol. 39 (4): 504-513.
18. Greater Yellowstone Coalition. 2005. Greater Yellowstone Coalition's conservation successes. http://www.greateryellowstone.org/about/history.html (accessed 20 September 2005).
19. Guha, R. 2000. Environmentalism: A global history. New York: Longman.
20. Haggerty, M. 1996. Costs of county and education services in Gallatin County, Montana. Montana Policy Rev. 6 (1): 13-21.
21. Haggerty, M. 2004. Letter to Gallatin County commissioners. Gallatin County planning records, Bozeman, MT.
22. Hansen, A. J., R. Rasker, B. Maxwell, J. J. Rotella, J. D. Johnson, A. Wright Parmenter, U. Langner, W. B. Cohen, R. L. Lawrence, and M. P. V. Kraska. 2002. Ecological causes and consequences of demographic change in the New West. BioScience 52 (2): 151-162.
23. Hibbard, M., and J. Madsen. 2003. Environmental resistance to place-based collaboration in the U.S. West. Society Nat. Resources 16: 703-718.
24. Imbroscio, D. L. 1998. Reformulating urban regime theory: The division of labor between state and market reconsidered. J. Urban Affairs 20 (3): 233-248.
25. Kempton, W., D. C. Holland, K. Bunting-Howarth, E. Hannan, and C. Payne. 2001. Local environmental groups: A systematic enumeration in two geographical areas. Rural Sociol. 66 (4): 557-578.
26. Lane, M. B., and T. H. Morrison. 2006. Public interest or private agenda? A mediation on the role of NGOs in environmental policy and management in Australia. J. Rural Stud. 22 (2): 232-242.
27. Lincoln, Y. S., and E. G. Guba. 1985. Naturalistic inquiry. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
28. Liverman, D. 2004. Who governs, at what scale and at what price? Geography, environmental governance, and the commodification of nature. Ann. Assoc. Am. Geogr. 94 (4): 734-738.
29. Logan, J. R., and H. L. Molotch. 1987. Urban fortunes: The political economy of place. Berkeley: University of California Press.
30. Lurie, S., and M. Hibbard. 2008. Community-based natural resource management: Ideals and realities for oregon watershed councils. Society Nat. Resources 21: 430-440.
31. MacLeod, G., and M. Goodwin. 1999. Space, scale and state strategy: Rethinking urban and regional governance. Prog. Hum. Geogr. 23 (4): 503-527.
32. Maestas, J. D., R. L. Knight, and W. C. Gilgert. 2001. Biodiversity and land-use change in the American mountain west. Gegro. Rev.91(3):509-524.
33. Maestas, J. D., R. L. Knight, and W. C. Gilgert. 2003. Biodiversity across a rural land-use gradient. Conserv. Biol. 17 (5): 1425-1434.
34. Martin, D. G. 2004. Nonprofit foundation and grassroots organizing: Reshaping urban governance. Prof. Geogr. 56 (3): 394-405.
35. McCarthy, J. 2005a. Devolution in the woods: Community forestry as hybrid neoliberalism. Environ. Plan. A 37 (6): 995-1014.
36. McCarthy, J. 2005b. Scale, sovereignty, and strategy in environmental governance. Antipode 37 (4): 731-753.
37. McCloskey, M. 2001. Is this the course you want to be on?: Comments from the closing session of the 8th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Society Nat. Resources 14: 627-634.
38. Molotch, H. L. 1976. The city as a growth machine: Toward a political economy of place. Am. J. Sociol. 82 (2): 309-322.
39. Murdock, B. 2002. Institute has been watching out for property rights. Bozeman Daily Chronicle April 9. http://bozemandailychronicle.com/articles/2002/04/09/news3645.txt (accessed 15 August 2004).
40. Noss, R. F., C. Carroll, K. Vance-Borland, and G. Wuerthner. 2002. A multicriteria assessment of the irreplaceability and vulnerability of sites in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Conserv. Biol. 16 (4): 895-908.
41. Painter, J. 1998. Entrepreneurs are made, not born: Learning and urban regimes in the production of entrepreneurial cities. In The entrepreneurial city: Geographics of politics, regime and representation, ed. T. Hall and P. Hubbard, 259-273. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
42. Pincetl, S. 2003. Nonprofits and park provision in Los Angeles: An exploration of the rise of governance approaches to the provision of local services. Soc. Sci. Q. 84 (4): 979-1001.
43. Power, T. M., and R. N. Barrett. 2001. Post-cowboy economics: Pay and prosperity in the new American West. Washington, DC: Island Press.
44. Rasker, R., and A. J. Hansen. 2000. Natural amenities and population growth in the greater Yellowstone region. Hum. Ecol. Rev. 7 (2): 30-40.
45. Riebsame, W. E., ed. 1997. Atlas of the New West: Portrait of a changing region. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
46. Riebsame, W. E., H. Gosnell, and D. M. Theobald. 1996. Land use and landscape change in the Colorado mountains I: Theory, scale, and pattern. Mountain Res. Dev. 16 (4): 395-405.
47. Savage, A., J. Isham, and C. M. Klyza. 2005. The greening of social capital: An examination of land-based groups in two Vermont counties. Rural Sociol. 70 (1): 113-131.
48. Sherlock, K. L., E. A. Kirk, and A. D. Reeves. 2004. Just the usual suspects? Partnerships and environmental regulation. Environ. Plan. C 22: 651-666.
49. Shumway, J. M., and S. M. Otterstrom. 2001. Spatial patterns of migration and income change in the Mountain West: The dominance of service-based amenity-rich counties. Prof. Geogr. 53: 492-502.
50. Sonoran Institute. 2006. Western Community Stewardship Forum. http://www.sonoran.org/programs/wcsf/si_wcsf_program_main.html (accessed 11 August 2006).
51. Spain, D. 1993. Been-heres versus come-heres: Negotiating conflicting community identities. J. Am. Plann. Assoc. 59 (2): 156-171.
52. Stoker, G. 1998. Governance as theory: Five propositions. Int. Soc. Sci. J. 50 (155): 17-28.
53. Stone, C. N. 1989. Regime politics: Governing Atlanta, 1946-1988. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
54. Theobald, D. M. 2000. Fragmentation by inholdings and exurban development. In Forest fragmentation in the southern Rocky Mountains, ed. R. L. Knight, F. W. Smith, S. W. Buskirk, W. H. Romme, and W. L. Baker, 155-174. Boulder: University Press of Colorado.
55. U.S. Census. 2011. American FactFinder. http://factfinder2.census.gov (accessed 20 June 2011).
56. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2011. Threatened, endangered and candidate species in Montana. http://www.fws.gov/montanafieldoffice/Endangered_Species/Listed_Species/TEClist.pdf (accessed 6 November 2011).
57. Vale, T. R. 2005. The American wilderness: Reflections on nature protection in the United States. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
58. Ward, K. 1995. A rough guide to... Regime theory. Business Elites and Urban Politics, Working Paper 5. Manchester: University of Manchester.
59. Welsh, M. M. 2004. Reaction of the national environmental groups to devolution. Society Nat. Resources 17 (4): 293-304.
60. White, K. 2002. Property rights threatened. Bozeman Daily Chronicle March 27, A4.