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These eleven original essays by leading wildlife management and public policy scholars deal with policy issues, management perspectives, and the public attitudes about wildlife that shape the world of the wildlife manager. Part 1 contains William R. Mangun's introductory essay ""Fish and Wildlife Policy Issues"" and Daniel J. Decker et al.'s ""Toward a Comprehensive Paradigm of Wildlife."" Ann H. Harvey's ""Interagency Conflict and Coordination in Wildlife Management,"" Philip S. Cook and Ted T. Cable's ""Developing Policy for Public Access to Private Land,"" and Debra A. Rose's ""Implementing Endangered Species Policy"" make up part 2. Part 3 consists of Cliff Hamilton's ""Pursuing a New Paradigm in Funding State Fish and Wildlife Programs"" and Trellis G. Green's ""Use of Economics in Federal and State Fishery Allocation Decisions."" The fourth part includes James J. Kennedy and Jack Ward Thomas's ""Exit, Voice, and Loyalty of Wildlife Biologists in Public Natural Resource/Environmental Agencies""; Jean C. Mangun et al.'s ""Nonconsumptive Wildlife-Associated Recreation in the United States""; and Barbara A. Knuth's ""Natural Resource Hazards: Managing to Protect People from the Resource."" In part 5, Joseph F. Coates looks to the future in ""Public Policy Actors and Futures.""

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A compilation of eleven original essays by leading wildlife and natural resource pol-icy scholars. . . . The authors argue that suc-cessful wildlife management depends on effec-tive people management. To understand wildlife ecology we must also understand the human attitudes, behaviors, and institutions that impact wildlife resources. Specific topics covered in the book include wildlife policy de-velopment, inter- and intra-agency conflict and coordination, economics, nonconsumptive wildlife uses, public attitudes towards wildlife, public access to private land, and funding mechanisms. --S. Hollenhorst, Choice

"A compilation of eleven original essays by leading wildlife and natural resource policy scholars. . . . The authors argue that successful wildlife management depends on effective people management. To understand wildlife ecology we must also understand the human attitudes, behaviors, and institutions that impact wildlife resources. Specific topics covered in the book include wildlife policy development, inter- and intra-agency conflict and coordination, economics, nonconsumptive wildlife uses, public attitudes towards wildlife, public access to private land, and funding mechanisms. S. Hollenhorst, ""Choice"""" The essays covering policy issues, management perspectives, and public attitudes should be of interest to all interested in the future of wildlife policy. ""Journal of Forestry"""" ""A compilation of eleven original essays by leading wildlife and natural resource pol-icy scholars. . . . The authors argue that suc-cessful wildlife management depends on effec-tive people management. To understand wildlife ecology we must also understand the human attitudes, behaviors, and institutions that impact wildlife resources. Specific topics covered in the book include wildlife policy de-velopment, inter- and intra-agency conflict and coordination, economics, nonconsumptive wildlife uses, public attitudes towards wildlife, public access to private land, and funding mechanisms.""--S. Hollenhorst, ""Choice"" ""The essays covering policy issues, management perspectives, and public attitudes should be of interest to all interested in the future of wildlife policy.""--""Journal of Forestry"""

The essays covering policy issues, management perspectives, and public attitudes should be of interest to all interested in the future of wildlife policy. Journal of Forestry

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William R. Mangun is director of the Master of Public Administration Program at East Carolina University.

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