In a housing crisis, publicly owned land should never be sold to private developers and should instead be used to build the kind of housing the market is unwilling and unable to build.
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Land grabs spearheaded by wealthy interests are accelerating deforestation, and Brazil’s National Congress is working to legitimize them.
In principle, some portion of the shoreline is public land along virtually all US coasts. But these can sometimes overlap with private property interests, creating confusion and conflict.
Public washrooms are an essential service and the people who maintain them are essential workers. But what happens when a pandemic closes public bathrooms and a civil rights protest breaks out?
Republicans in Congress are working to kill an Obama administration rule that broadens public input into federal land use planning. Hunters, fishermen, hikers and environmental groups are opposed.
One of Trump’s first orders of business on energy will likely be to reopen federal lands to coal mining, which would be a bad deal for taxpayers and the environment.
Acquitted in the Malheur takeover trial, Ryan Bundy urges protests against efforts to conserve public lands. Who will protect federal employees?
Debates over federal lands, from the Malheur Refuge takeover to fossil fuel leases on public land, are back in the news. How do the two parties line up on public land policy?
An anthropologist argues for new ways to value sacred landscapes.
As the National Park Service turns 100 years old, two conservation scholars and former park rangers respond to critics who support privatizing national parks or putting them under state control.
The 1906 Antiquities Act gives presidents unilateral power to protect land as national monuments. The law has saved important places, but has also fueled intense conflicts over land control.
Open public spaces are good for mind and body – we shouldn’t have to pay to use them.
A geography professor reports from the front lines of the Malheur occupation. Despite strong local opposition to occupiers, he foresees more conflicts to come.
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Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University
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W. M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College
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Professor of Geography, University of Oregon
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Professor of History, University of Idaho
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Associate Professor and Director of Planning and Real Estate, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Political Science, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
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GIS and Policy Analyst, Boise State University
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Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Guelph
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Professor of Latin American Studies and Geography, University of Florida
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Professor of Geography, University of Florida
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PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Guelph
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Canada Research Chair in Urban Change and Social Inclusion, University of Waterloo
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