TY - BOOK ID - 14263478 TI - A place for dialogue PY - 2007 SN - 1587295342 1587297655 9781587297656 9781587295348 PB - Iowa City University of Iowa Press DB - UniCat KW - Land use -- Government policy -- Arizona. KW - Public lands -- Arizona -- Management. KW - Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- Arizona. KW - Land use KW - Rhetoric KW - Public lands KW - Business & Economics KW - Real Estate, Housing & Land Use KW - Government policy KW - Political aspects KW - Management KW - Management. KW - Lands, Public KW - Language and languages KW - Speaking KW - Land KW - Land utilization KW - Use of land KW - Utilization of land KW - Law and legislation KW - Public domain KW - Crown lands KW - Natural resources, Communal KW - Authorship KW - Expression KW - Literary style KW - Economics KW - Land cover KW - Landscape assessment KW - NIMBY syndrome UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14263478 AB - In A Place for Dialogue, Sharon McKenzie Stevens views the contradictions and collaborations involved in the management of public land in southern Arizona-and by extension the entire arid West-through the lens of political rhetoric. Revealing the socioecological relationships among cattlemen and environmentalists as well as developers and recreationists, she analyzes the ways that language shapes landscape by shaping decisions about land use. Stevens focuses on the collaborative Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan initiated by Pima County, Arizona, the ubiquitous use of scientific argument to de ER -