Property Rights, Political Fragmentation and the Endangered Species Act

安德鲁·E·G·乔纳斯·托马斯·A·斯科特加州大学河滨财产权、政治分裂和濒危物种法案这个项目对美国濒危物种法案的当地执行情况进行了政治分析。具体地说，这项研究调查了利益攸关方在制定和批准该法规定的栖息地保护计划方面的作用。研究设计需要一项密集的、定量和定性的案例研究，重点是加利福尼亚州河滨县西部斯蒂芬斯袋鼠的栖息地保护计划。这一案例研究包括快速的郊区发展和相关的环境变化，以及政治分裂的情况。在制定和批准土地利用计划和养护计划方面发挥作用的一般用途市政当局和特殊用途区的数量，体现了政治上的分散。将通过对受影响地区进行地理分析以确定受影响地区的土地所有权和土地权益，并通过参与观察保护规划过程的公共部分，来扩大计划发展的档案数据。这项研究试图评估这种地方政策制定在快速发展、利益分歧和公众生态保护话语转变的情况下的可持续性。

SBR-9512033 Andrew E.G. Jonas Thomas A. Scott University of California Riverside Property Rights, Political Fragmentation and the Endangered Species Act This project develops a political analysis of local implementation of the U.S. Endangered Species Act. Specifically, the research investigates the roles of stakeholders in developing and approving a habitat conservation plan as mandated by the Act. The research design entails an intensive, quantitative and qualitative, case study focused on the habitat conservation plan for the Stephens' kangaroo rat in western Riverside County, California. This case study includes the circumstances of rapid suburban development and associated environmental change, and political fragmentation. Political fragmentation is manifested in the number of general-purpose municipalities and special-purpose districts that have a role in developing and approving land-use plans and conservation plans. Archival data of the plan's development will be augmented by geographic analysis of the affected area to determine land-ownership and land interests in the affected area, and by participant observation of the public components of the conservation planning process. The study attempts to evaluate the sustainability of this kind of local policy formulation in the face of rapid development, wide variation of interests, and shifts in public discourse on ecological preservation.