Managing Land Use PDF

Rebecca Stefoff hat ihre Karriere dem Schreiben von Sachbüchern für junge Leser gewidmet. Ihre Veröffentlichungen umfassen Geschichten, literarische Biografien, eine Enzyklopädie von Karten und zahlreiche Bücher zu Wissenschafts- und Umweltthemen. Sie hat auch eine Reihe von wegweisenden Werken in Geschichte und Wissenschaft adaptiert, darunter Howard Zinns A People's History of the United States, Jared Diamonds The Third Chimpanzee, Charles C. Manns Bestseller 1493, Jill Jonnes' Eiffel's Tower und Ronald Takakis A Different Mirror for Junge Menschen: Eine Geschichte des multikulturellen Amerikas .

Managing Land Use pdf von Rebecca Stefoff

In 2010 the Wisconsin State Journal reported a battle brewing in Perry, a small rural town in Dane County, in the southern part of the state. The conflict concerned the land around a historic church. At the heart of the matter was a more general question: who has the right to decide how land will be used? The answer may seem simple. In the United States, “the property owner is the primary land use decision maker,” wrote one scholar of land law in 2004. In practice, however, land use questions are often extremely complicated, whether they involve a small country church or a vast expanse of wil- derness. In disputes over land use, the property owner may not be the only decision maker, or the final one.