The pattern of U.S. defense expenditure has reinforced certain industrial and urban development shifts in the nation, and by accelerating the growth of certain urban areas, has created local situations of great vulnerability. The shift to California has changed the industry mix in the State,...

Current interest in small manufacturing firms is great because they are an important source of job growth. Consequently, many planners and policy makers have tried to strengthen the small manufacturing sector, hoping that this will bolster their regional economy as a whole. This piecemeal...

ch. 1. Why concern ourselves with forest policy? -- ch. 2. Pressing issues of forest policty -- ch. 3. A framework of analysis for forest policy -- ch. 4. Forest characteristics and forest uses -- ch. 5. Variability among forests -- ch. 6. Physical and biological feasibility and consequences --...

1. The federal lands : their role in U.S. society and economy -- 2. The history of the federal lands -- 3. Federal land use, planning, and management today -- 4. Federal land ownership : the retentionists' case -- 5. The federal lands : the disposers' case -- 6. The federal lands : future...

This paper explores the potential of using large administrative units for studies of population health within a country. The objective is to illustrate a new way of defining structural dimensions and to use them in examining variation in life expectancy rates. We use data from the 50 provinces...